Icetop Mountains

Icetop Mountains is the third level of Shivering Snowlands, taking place in the higher areas of the world, slightly connected to Peppermint Mountains in a way. It features icy enemies, Grrols and Bullet Bills. There is also a skiing resort under attack by Bowser's minions, where you need to defeat them to free the resort.

Level Info
Difficulty: Medium

Missions: Main Mission, Extra Section, Starman Romp

Bosses: N/A

Secret Exits: N/A

Development History
This stage was first developed in Demo 2 for Beta Road. It also remained as a beta level in Demo 3, due to plans forcing World 4 to be postponed to Demo 4. In Demo 4, the stage was finally completed, with also receiving a tileset update.

Trivia

 * The music used in this stage is a remix of DK Pass from Mario Kart DS, composed by JoshhMarshh.

Lore
Icetop Mountains is the highest parts of the Shivering Snowlands that isn't connected to Peppermint Mountains subregion. It starts off as a leisure, highlandish snowland, slowly escalating in height into the mountainous territory. It was mainly one-sided, until a group of builders have opened up a pipe network to the western parts of the mountains, establishing a skiing resort where there were climbable and slideable hills. The eastern parts were never touched, as hostile creatures were present there. But daring climbers took the route and some were able to reach the top, seeing a marvelous scenery even showing Peppermint Mountains in full action. If you ever see torches built up the peak, you can see there were people who managed to climb to the end.

But recent events, especially Everwinter had taken a great toll on the activity in these mountains. Not only the beasts have crawled into their caves due to the harsh snowstorms, the poor creatures outside were affected by the dark winter, and the skiing resort is invaded by Bowser's forces, to seize the path to Peppermint Mountains.