HOLIDAYS IN MITCHEL'S WINTER HUT

Level by Astraf. Walkthrough by Phil Lambeth. A number of video walks have also been posted at YouTube.

Begin in a dark upstairs bedroom somewhere in North Norway. Turn around and search the small chest next to the writing desk for the PISTOLS. Turn left and open the door in the corner to a hallway. Go past a closed door into the next room and search the chest for a large medipack and flares. Return to the door, open it and enter the bathroom. Jump up just past the toilet and shoot out the grate. Pull up into the revealed crawl space for the LASER SIGHT, get back down and return to the bedroom. Open the door opposite the chest and go downstairs to the living room. There's a door you can open that leads outdoors, so open it now to provide a shortcut for later use.

Grab the flares on the table, open the door near the wood stove and enter the lounge to trigger some dialogue with the guy seated at the table. Pick up the large medipack next to him and go behind the bookshelf in the opposite corner. Reach up for MITCHEL'S GRAMOPHONE RECORD that registers as SECRET #1. Pick up the small medipack on the nearby glass-top table and place the Record on the machine in the corner on your way out for some soothing music. In the living room, open the floor trap door between the table and the window and drop down into the basement. Shoot a small box for flares and find a similar box in the corner alcove that contains explosive arrows. Search the opposite corner for a small medipack and look up to find the ceiling trap door. Face S, jump up to open it, then pull the nearby table underneath it so you can use it to pull up into the S crawl space.

Shoot the grate, drop down the other side to a fixed camera, shoot the small box and pick up the CROWBAR. Slide down into an underground cavern, go onto the rock bridge for flares and note the nearby floor hole. Below is a pool with icy water from which there's no escape, so pick up the small medipack there and follow down W, being mindful of falling icicles as you turn the corner (hug the left wall). There are more icicles in the next room. Find the TORCH near the stacked firewood as you continue past the W opening to an outdoor ledge. Turn right and follow the ledge around to a grate with flares close by. Shoot the grate, crawl into a storage room and shoot the small boxes for flares and explosive arrows. Work your way past the clutter in the SW corner to find the CROSSBOW.

Face E. jump up to open the ceiling trap door for later and open the crowbar door near the SE corner. Move the table in the next room (that you've already visited) underneath the new trap door and pull up W into a crawl space with the GENERATOR BATTERY. Get back down and find the receptacle for the Battery in the NE corner. Place it to start the machine to your left and trigger a flyby that ends at a wall switch outdoors. Exit through the crawl space, retrieve your torch and slide down to the dark pathway far below. Go up E and follow the path around to the cabin door you opened earlier. Enter and light the torch with the flame in the wood-burning stove.

Exit, turn right past the fenced area and note the purple crystals ahead. Combine the crossbow and laser sight, shoot the cluster (1 of 6) to shatter it and hop up there for explosive arrows. Continue W around the cabin with torch in hand and loop around right to find the wall switch you saw in the cut scene. Pull it down to lift the gate to your right, shoot the small box inside for the GREEN KEY HANDLE and open the door to a small fenced area. Step out into a fixed camera and look around in vain for something to do here (but you'll return here later). Go back, exit the cabin and run straight forward to the boulder perched on the hill ahead. Push it so that it rolls down the bank and breaks through the ice to land in a hole in the icy river. Walk to the edge, look down right and see two more of those purple clusters. Shoot them both (2 and 3 of 6) and walk SE between two trees and see another cluster ahead. Shoot it as well (4 of 6), then retrieve your lighted torch from wherever you left it, probably at the wall switch.

Find a cleft in the bank just between the two large rocks bunched together nearby. Slide down next to another stack of firewood with a spare torch nearby. Light the stack (1 of 5), jump SE onto a flat spot and follow the rock ledge toward the spot where you shot the purple crystals and pick up the small medipack. Slide down to the circular path below, slide down further and Lara's attention will be directed to a partially buried object. Pick up the SNOWY OWL EGG, hop back up to the circular passage and proceed W with your lighted torch. With the icy river to your left, look for an opening to your right and enter the cavern you visited earlier.

Light the stacked firewood (2 of 5) and exit to the path. Turn right, follow the path up and look down left to see another purple cluster. Shatter it (5 of 6), slide down there and pick up the explosive arrows. Continue following the path E, look up left just as you're about to make a right turn and find another cluster (6 of 6) beyond a pine tree. Shoot it to hear someone say "found it!" as the BLUE KEY HANDLE is added to your inventory. There's a remote camera shot of the cabin, but first hop up to where the cluster was to grab the large medipack. Slide down and continue up the path with torch in hand to the cabin.

Opposite the open cabin door, jump up the hillside past the two rocks and go up left past the pine tree. Turn around, face SE and jump up to a flat spot on the rock wall to find another stack of firewood (3 of 5) to light.  Return to the cabin, go around clockwise to the wall switch door and leave your torch at the entrance. Go through the cabin to the outdoor fenced area, turn around and position Lara so you can jump up to grab the overhanging roof section. Jump up NW onto a flat spot on the main roof, hop up SW, step into the nest and place the Egg in the vacant spot. The mother owl flies by and gratefully leaves you the GREEN KEY BIT, but then she inexplicably starts attacking you to drain your health.

Get away from Mother Owl, drop to the ground and retrieve your torch. For a pickup, go to the nearby cleft where you slid down to light the first stack of firewood, slide down again, go around N until you can walk no further and take a running jump to land near explosive arrows. Slide down to the path and hop down SW onto a flat spot above the S end of the river to find another stack of firewood to light (4 of 5). Follow the path along the W bank of the river, jumping as necessary to clear the gaps. The second one requires a sprint jump, where you hop back three times, sprint forward and jump a greater distance to clear the gap, so save before attempting it.

You'll eventually come to the PIANO NOTES, so pick them up for SECRET #2 and slide down with your torch to the river. Follow the path up E, and when you make a bend around to your left, turn back and walk up past the pine tree. Take two hops down to the next pine tree and light the stack of firewood there (5 of 5) to be transported to a cave where Mitchel presents you with the BLUE KEY BIT. Drop the torch, as you no longer need it, exit the cave, slide down to the river and make the long trek back up to the cabin. Enter and approach the piano to trigger a lingering flyby that concludes with more dialogue.

Exit the cabin, return to the river and locate the hole where the boulder punched through the ice earlier. At the NE corner of the ice hole, face E, hop back into the frigid water and quickly swim through the opening ahead. Wade out at the end, pick up the large medipack and run up to an underground room. Go around left past the water hole and combine the Blue Key Handle and Blue Key Bit. Place the BLUE HELMET KEY in the receptacle and go around to the other side to perform the same procedure with the GREEN HELMET KEY. The icicles blocking the E opening are melted away, so go there and pry the blue gem off the statue base to trigger a concluding flyby with additional dialogue.