Level 8

Black Isle

Gallows Tree

High ledge above valley:

Don't bother dropping into the hole to the cave as you will have a chance later to visit it. Instead walk out to the high ledge above the valley. Take a long running jump across the valley to the grey ledge on the other side. Jump grab to the crack running along the cliff and shimmy to the left and around the corner to drop down on the lower grey ledge.

Look toward the sunset for the grey ledge. Take a simple jump with grab across the gap to the grey sliding ramp. Slide down and grab the edge. DO NOT shimmy to the right, drop to the ledge below. Turn around and face the misty cave.

Carefully line up a jump to the misty cave avoiding the slanted overhang, take a running jump with GRAB to the misty cave. Bats! Pick up Secret #1 - a gold rose and a large medi-pack and return to the entrance of the cave. You can now drop to the valley floor.

Valley floor:

Explore the valley floor using simple jumps to get around. Find your way to the short ledge about halfway along on the right near the cave to the top. Standing on the ledge look for a light grey ledge in the corner. Take a simple standing jump from the ledge near the cave to a dark flat ledge between the cave ledge and the corner. You must land on the lower part of the dark ledge or you will slide off. Take another simple jump to the corner and pick up a small medi-pack. Make your way back to the ledge by the cave and climb up through the cave to the top of the valley.

Top of the valley:

Repeat the long running jump across the valley, shimmy left across the crack and land on the grey ledge. Look toward the sunset for a grey ledge. Take a simple jump with grab across the gap to the grey sliding ramp. Slide down and grab the edge. This time shimmy to the right around the corner. Look below to see a crawl space. Release the Action key to drop to the crawl space, then immediately press the Action key to grab the crawlspace ledge. Crawl into the crawlspace and drop down on the other side.

Walk over to the flat ledge and do a jump grab to the overhead monkey bars. Swing across the vines and drop down on the other side. In the cave, look to the left passage and pick up a large medi-pack. Slide down the ramp in the cave and land at the entrance to the Gallows Tree.

Cut scene:

In the Gallows tree, appears a mummified corpse hanging from a rope.  The corpse speaks of being between the world of the living and the dead. It seems someone hid his heart in the roots of a tree. He promises Lara great rewards if she returns the heart to its proper place.

Gallows Tree:

After the movie, KEEP well away from the barrel, fire and hut otherwise the barrel trembles, and a little Imp emerges from the barrel. The nasty little Imp has taste for Lara's kneecaps. You can do most of the level without being hindered by the Imp.)

Hop backwards a couple of times and find the cave with the ramp where you first entered the Gallows Tree area.  Look right and notice the tall flat topped pillar and the reachable slope nearby. Do a jump grab to the sloped ledge above the cave entrance. Shimmy to the left while the little Imp drools over Lara's feet. (If you woke him up)

At the edge near the wall, climb up to the sloped ledge and immediately do a backflip onto the square pillar behind you. Pick up Secret #2 - a gold rose. Drop back down to the ground.

Gallows Tree:

From the step look to the right of the building with the well and see a crawlspace and monkeys bars. Run across there (keeping away from the hut remember) and do a jump grab to the monkey bars and cross over to the higher ledge. Some bats are released. Do a jump grab to a higher overhead ledge and climb up to find yourself above the building with the well. 

Take a simple jump or dive into the water in the building. Swim down until you see an underwater cave. Take a right at the junction, to the left turn is a dead end. Take another right, and don't go up at the next fork, instead take a left and swim until the cave goes up. Swim up and emerge in a lake.

Lake near building:

You may or may not trigger the rats. If you do trigger the rats, try swimming under water or climb out of the water. Swim to the short ledge near the dock. Climb out and go up on the dock. Look to the right side of the building (from the dock) and notice a ramp and a ledge on the side of the building. Take a long running jump to the ramp, immediately do a standing jump with grab from the ramp to the ledge near the building. Crawl into the building.

OR

Drop back into the water on the other side of the ramp. Then face the ramp and pull up onto it, back flipping over the ledge behind you.

Building by lake:

Pick up the large medi-pack in one corner near the bicycle. Search the dresser and find a Rubber Tube. Drop into the water and swim through the cave and then back up to surface back in the lake.

DO NOT TRY AND SWIM BACK THROUGH THE WATER.

Climb back up on the dock and take a long running jump to the other lake.

Lake with broken wheelbarrow:

Rats! Swim or run around until the rats go away. Climb out on the ledge near the cave. Enter the cave, go through the crawlspace and emerge back by the Gallows tree.

Gallows Tree:

Drop down and enter the crawlspace in the dark square building.

Boarded up windows:

Drop back down to the ground and enter the misty room below the ledge. Look around and pick up the Pitchfork on the floor of the misty room.  Climb up to the ledge with the boarded up windows. Combine the pitchfork with the rubber tube to create a Catapult. Stand near the boarded up window and press Action. Lara uses the catapult to release a weight to the bells. The bells crash to the floor.

Room with bells:

Pick up the Clapper (looks like a torch) from the floor. (Supposedly, the iron objects like the clapper are supposed to be useful for nasty Imps. Did not work on the little Imp at all.)

Jump down into the hole.

Trail of tombs:

Once you climb out of the cave, look back and enter the cave with a brightly lit coffin. Pick up the torch on the floor. In the fourth tomb on the right, find a wall torch to light your torch. Stand near it and press the Action key. Drop your torch near the hole in the floor.

(Remember where you threw down the torch, so you can pick it up again.)

In the second tomb on the left while going uphill, find a small medi-pack. At the top of the hill, notice the two doors, then find the nearby hole in the ground with the climbing ladder. Throw the torch down into the hole and climb down.

Cave:

Run across the wooden floor and the floor collapses and release bats (run around until the bats fade away). After the spikes, take a right up hill. The next right turn leads back to the entrance to the cave, so take the second right. Bats! run around and then return.

Drop the torch at the bend before the spikes.

Carefully CRAWL down the ramp to the spike pit. CRAWL through the spikes and into the crawl space.

(NOTE: If you walk then drop into the crawl position while in the spikes you will lose some health).

Pick up a large medi-pack and Secret #3 - a gold rose. CRAWL back out through the spikes and pick up your torch. Find the room with the tree roots by keeping the wall on your right side (past the spike pit).

Room with tree roots:

Stand underneath the tree roots and press the Action key to light the roots on fire. A heart drops down from the burnt roots. Throw down your torch and pick up the heart.

Cut scene:

Father Dunstan is performing exorcism rites above a deep hole. A deep voice comes from the hole. Father Dunstan warns Lara not to talk to anybody and to use iron to repel any creatures that she may come across. He urges her to go the chapel to await him.

Room with deep hole:

You die if you drop into the deep hole, so get your torch then find the exit to the room with the deep hole. Pick up a small medi-pack before sliding down the ramp. Emerge back at the Gallows Tree.

Gallows Tree:

Find the crawlspace in the tall square building. Crawl through and climb up to the room with the bells. Enter the trail of tombs, and go to the top of the hill to the two doors.

OR

Alternatively, you can not slide down the ramp and return via the spike pit cave to the trail of tombs.

Trail of Tombs:

Place the heart in the cavity in the door.

Cut scene:

An evil laugh, and two little Imps appear.

Enter newly opened door.

Cut scene:

The little Imp has gathered a whole bunch of friends and they are attacking Lara. Hmm, some reward!  Lara throws the iron clapper at them and most of them pop like balloons. Lara moves a stone to reveal a new exit.

Jump into the hole and enter the crawlspace. Do a jump grab to the higher ledge, and climb one more ledge. Find yourself on the bridge.

The bridge:

Pick up a large medi-pack on the other side of the bridge. Climb up through the cave until you reach the chapel.

End of level

Secrets: 3 of 3 (21 out of 36 total Secrets)