Mountains

How mountains plays

Mountain mode drops you at one of 15,000+ named peaks above three kilometres in elevation. The cue surface is the surrounding range — every great range has its own colour, rock type, glaciation style, and treeline pattern. The Andes do not look like the Alps. The Caucasus do not look like the Atlas. Once you can read range, you have placed yourself on a continent within seconds.

The pool comes from Wikidata's elevation-tagged peaks, biased toward named summits with a verified elevation. That gives you the Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alps, Pamirs, Tien Shan, Drakensberg, and dozens of smaller ranges. The longer you play, the more you start recognising the specific snow line and rock colour of each range.

What you'll learn

• Reading rock colour and texture to distinguish mountain ranges
• Using snow line, glaciation, and treeline as latitude clues
• Recognising distinctive ridge shapes — knife-edged Alpine vs. rounded Caledonian vs. block-faulted Basin and Range
• Placing yourself by the river system draining the peak

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