Out of Time - Climbing to the Upper Level

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Jump into the alcove and pick up the health potion. Then chimney jump up the sides of the alcove. . .

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. . . to grab the handhold on the right wall. Climb to the right, around the corner.

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Climb past the rough spot on the front of the column. Continue climbing around to the right side of the column and onto the nubby stone handholds. Climb up the rough handholds as high as Lara can go.

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At this point, a brief situational adrenaline sequence occurs. Time slows and the camera shifts to Natla hovering behind Lara. She launches a fireball and you must jump straight up to avoid it and grab the next set of handholds (as indicated by the broken arrow in the screenshot above). If you are successful, things return to normal. Otherwise, Lara dies and the game reloads with her clinging to the front of the column, and you have to try again.

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Continue climbing to the top of the rough stones. Climb to the left as far as possible and then jump to grab the horizontal handhold beyond.

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Traverse around to the small ledge on the front of the column and pull up. Jump forward to grab the ledge ahead and pull up once more.

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