Match the item to the status, avoid carrying redundant weight, and keep emergency tools outside the backpack when seconds matter.
Status priority
Injury, hunger, poison, burn, frost, sleepiness, and revival penalties reduce your safe climbing margin in different ways. Identify the icon before spending a limited cure.
- Food addresses hunger.
- Antidote-type items address poison.
- Warmth addresses frost.
- Medical tools address physical injury.
Weight is a route decision
Every extra item has a stamina cost. Share team tools, drop low-value duplicates, and repack at checkpoints instead of carrying every possible answer.
Climbing tools
Ropes, pitons, launchers, temporary platforms, and special mobility items change which route is safe. Place them from stable ground and consider whether the whole group can use the line.
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Last reviewed: 2026-08-21
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