Product Description

A real life adventure game, and a cooperative game too! Cooperative games encourage children to work together to solve problems, plan ahead, and a host of other tasks. Rather than compete against each other, children learn the skill of playing together cooperatively to acheive a joint goal The players in Mountaineering 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. Customers say: "We felt as if we had actually gone through a mountain climbing experience together. We laughed, brooded, feared, and enjoyed together."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102373 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Family Pastimes
• Model: MTN
• Released on: 2006-04-19
• Dimensions: 1.25" h x 9.00" w x 18.25" l, 1.17 pounds

Features

• A Co-Operative Game
• Candian Toy Testing, TOP Rating
• Includes: 9 x 18" board, trouble chart, team mover, equipment and mover cards.
• Designed by Jim Deacove
• Recommended Age Range 7 to Adult

Awards
Canadian Toy Testing Top Rating

From the Manufacturer
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.

About the Inventor/Designer
This game is the invention of Jim Deacove. Jim first made a few co-operative games for his own family and was encouraged by friends to make more. The Deacove family was and is no different from others. Sharing toys, helping mom and dad, being kind to others, finding non-violent ways to solve problems are values taught in all homes. To find games which help to reinforce such sharing attitudes, however, is very difficult. Thus, Jim and Ruth felt they had to create some. The hobby became a small business in their home 28 years ago (1972). The games are now sold almost everywhere in the world. They are made in small quantities as a labor of love. The format is kept simple but attractive.

Customer Reviews

Excellent to teach teamwork-must work with others to win
My son plays this in a special program in school; we got it and love it; it teaches to work with others for a common goal (to make it to the top of the mountain); younger children may get frustrated unless there is an adult there to help provide occasional direction when first learning to play.