| :info: flag order is not a requirement, as flags only indicate terrain height. Like when climbing a real mountain, sometimes one must go to lower areas temporarily to later ascend even higher. However, the climbing path must still end at the highest flag (as the goal is to reach the summit), and start at the base (lowest flag). If there are multiple summits, they can be visited in any order.

## [mountain-climber] puzzles

### @Hempuli's original Mountain Climbers

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### site.author

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### @PinkHoodie

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W=11x11&L=l16l3b4(3)f15l10b2l7fy1b3b18l3fy3l1b6b4b9(0)f3b12&SS=34NLNUUUEUUERRRSRRSDSDDDWDWLLLNL4RDDRDDRRRUURUULUULUUURRD8NLNUUEUERRSDSDDDWLL25UNLLWDSRRE&G=mountain-climber&A=PinkHoodie&D=2024-04-03&F=3&T=Unknown_Destination



## Acknowledgements and Changes

**2021-09-25** Thanks @MartinEnder for finding a couple non-uniquenesses, now corrected, and to @ThatScar, @JackKutilek, @Karoo for help clarifying the rules.
**2023-07-09** Thanks to @dohz for pointing out a necessary correction of the rules (changed) and for suggesting a better edit to fix an initial non-uniqueness in puzzle #3 (Halti). Also, question marks are now rendered aligned with the remaining characters.
**2024-03-15** @PinkHoodie never imagined doing a [Mountain Climber]. Today's Enigmarch theme changed this. 
**2024-04-03** Reencoding issue found by @PinkHoodie was corrected (cause: partial migration of puzzles with old, lingering V1 encoding)
**2024-04-05** A second classic [Mountain Climber] by @PinkHoodie was created!
**2025-03-12** Two missing checks (last flag must be the highest; every height has a flag), detected by @PinkHoodie, who sent good unit tests, were added. The possibility of multiple summits was also clarified in the page, however, it is now mandatory to explicitly indicate the lowest flag number, as well as at least one of the summits. The puzzles were changed to reflect that.
**2025-03-16** :::puzzletters @PinkHoodie prepared 3 [mountain-climber] (classic) puzzles, for Enigmarch 2025