If you want to rescue Prince Ghassan, find out what happened to Simurgh, and make your way through Mount Qaf inPrince of Persia: The Lost Crown, you’ll have to be pretty agile. You’ll be jumping, ducking, dodging, time-bending, and even diving on occasion as Sargon as you explore the time-damaged ruins.
Some of the platforming you’ll be doing is pretty easy, and you’ll just need to navigate a few platforms or cross a large gap. Hidden in a secret area within the castle on Mount Qaf is a platforming challenge above all others, deemed by one Hermit to be impossible to complete.
How To Start The Impossible Climb
To start this platforming-related side quest, you’ll have to do a bit of platforming to find the entrance to the area, and you’ll alsoneed to have several Time Powersavailable:Dash of Simurgh,Shadow of Simurgh,Dimensional Claw, andFabric of Time.
First, start fromThe Clockwork fast travel pointand headdown through the exitin the bottom middle of the area.
Backtrack through the hanging pillars room andmake your way to the Wak-Wak treein the area next to the room, marked by a large arch and a winged symbol.
Head to the rightof it, and you’ll find the first platforming puzzle involving jewel slots and platforms. You’ll need totake the glowing pink jewelwith the Dimensional Claw andbring it to the first slotnear the bottom floor.
Jump onto the lower platformand use it to boost yourself up to where thesecond platform would be, andmake a Shadow of Simurghbefore dropping back down.
Grab the pink jewelfrom the lower slotandthrow itinto the upper slot, thenteleport back to your Shadowand land on the platform.
Exit through thedoorway at the top, and you’ll need tocross a gap using Fabric of Timeand your dash.
Once you’re on the other side,speak to the robed figuresitting down. The Hermit will tell you he met you and issue you a challenge tocollect three bellslocated far above youin return for a reward.
Multiple routes can be usedto reach all three of the bells, depending on which pillars you choose to grab ontoor which ones you happen to grab onto.
How To Reach The First Bell
Start your ascent bygrabbing ontothe side of thehanging pillar, and thencontinuously jump onto the side and hangon as it getspulled back up.
If youget too low on HP, you canleave the challenge, return to the nearbyWak-Wak tree to heal, and thencome back to the challenge.
Wait until the hangingpillar has gotten high enough, then jump onto the side ofone of the pillars higher upand grab onto theright Fabric of Time point.
Continue progressing upwards and keeping towards thepillars on the right side, and you’ll find thefirst bellhovering just above the spikesin between two pillars furthest to the right.Use thesmaller pillar to the left to bounce offand grab it.
Make use of Shadows of Simurghat relatively safe spots, such as aspot where a large pillar usually is,toprevent yourself from fallingall the way back to the bottom.
How To Reach The Second Bell
From the first bell, continue carefullyclimbing up the hanging pillars on the rightside until you see aFabric of Time pointbetween two short pillars.
Carefullyfling yourself leftthroughthe two pillarsusing Fabric of Time, then quicklyuse Fabric of Time to go left again, and you’ll be able tofling yourself onto one of the pillarsthat thesecond bellis floating in between.
Use the short pillar on the rightto bounce off,grab the second bell, and thenmake a Shadow of Simurghon one side of the pillar as a safety net before youcontinue further up.
How To Reach The Third Bell
From where you’rehanging at the second bell’s pillars, you’ll need togravitate back toward the centerof all the pillarsusing Fabric of Time and jumpingagain.
From that pillar,jump back onto the short pillarto the right, thenonto the pillar abovewhere the bell was.Wait thereuntil you canjump across to the middle sectionusing both the pillars and Fabric of Time, then wait.
Thethird and final bellis inbetween the highest two large pillarswith the Fabric of Time in between them.
Use the Fabric of Timepoints togain momentumand weave between thesides of the chain of pillars, thenfling yourself upat the final one tograb the third bell.
How To Complete The Impossible Climb
All you’ve got to do now is carefullyget back down to the starting platformwith all three bellswithout dying.
Jump down and hang onto the pillarsas you need toon your way back down, and when you reach the platform, you’ll automaticallystart a conversation with the Hermit.
He’llcongratulate you for passingthe challenge, and in return, you’llget two rewards: anAzure Damascus IngotandThe Third Son collectibleitem.
