Mountaineering

A real life adventure game! The players are a team trying for the summit. They share equipment, plan their strategies and handle whatever troubles come. Easy card symbols allow younger players to join the older ones. Complicated maneuvers challenge the older. Start at base camp, move along with picks, ropes, crampons, etc., past the snowslides, watching for frostbite and crippling snow blindness! Actual mountain photos form the playboard. Includes: 9 x 18" board, trouble chart, team mover, equipment and mover cards.
Our customers say: "We felt as if we had actually gone through a mountain climbing experience together. We laughed, brooded, feared, and enjoyed together." - British Columbia
Play as friends, not as enemies! Family Pastimes games foster the spirit of cooperation. Players help each other climb a mountain, make a community, complete a space exploration... They never play against each other. After all, the initial impulse to play a game is social; that is, we bring out a game because we want to do something together. How ironic then that in most games, we spend all our efforts trying to bankrupt someone, destroy their armies - in other words, to get rid of one another!
At Family Pastimes we believe that people of different ages and abilities should be able to play side by side, each making their best contribution. We are all there together when we finish the game to take joy in our successes and wonder how we might work together even better the next time we play. Thus, Family Pastimes games will prove to be a friendly form of fun. Socialization, entertainment, academic learning, character growth, etc. - whatever your objectives, we invite you to realize them by cooperative means. We hope you enjoy playing and learning together!