Place the piton high
Find the highest reachable point of the wall that is not part of the ceiling and place a piton there.
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The Cairn Catalogue Field Guide
Chapter 03 · Field Reference
Interior Areas
A guide to the established regions hidden beyond the ordinary walls of Kami, including their discovery, geography, and known ways in.
Beyond the Walls
Kami has another side to explore.
Interior areas are climbable spaces discovered beyond the ordinary playable side of Kami's walls.
Some are enormous regions with their own walls, roofs, caves, and routes. Others are small pockets reached only after traveling through several other Interior areas.
Out-of-Bounds Exploration
Enter carefully.
Interior areas rely on out-of-bounds movement and clipping through game geometry. Some areas can be difficult to leave, contain invisible walls, or behave differently from the normal playable world.
Common Access Technique
The Piton Clip Method
Most known Interior entrances use the same basic technique.
Work the rope
Grab and lower on the rope, fall into a useful position, or reposition around the surrounding geometry.
Find stable ground
The goal is to get Aava into a position where she can stand normally on geometry beyond the wall.
Depending on the entrance, Aava may stand normally after lowering on the rope, fall into a position that lets her stand normally, or reach through the wall and grab something on the opposite side that she can pull herself onto.
Interior Directory
Established Areas
The known Interior
Each area below records its relationship to Kami's normal geography and the first known way climbers reached it.
The Split Rock
The Core
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuit
The Core is the interior of The Split Rock. It is a massive interior space filled with enormous walls and pillar-like formations.
Known Access
Troute’s Cave
Above the Troute’s Cave doorway, place a piton as high as possible without placing it on the ceiling. Use the Piton Clip Method to get Aava onto the arch and through the ceiling.
Eastern Cave
Enter the cave on the eastern side of The Split Rock. Before reaching the end, you’ll find a wooden doorway. Climb the right side and place a piton as high as possible once Aava begins clipping into the wall, then use the Piton Clip Method to pass through.
Visual Reference
Entrance Gallery
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Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Helpful Videos
Guides & Previews
Entrance Guide
The Core Access Guide
Lower interior of The Village
The Upside Down
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuit
The Upside Down is the lower region of The Village’s interior. It is a massive cave filled with sheer faces hanging over an infinite chasm.
Known Access
Access
There are several ways inside. For the first discovered entrance, place a piton in the highest upper-right corner and use the Piton Clip Method until Aava gets into a stable position beyond the wall. This is one of the most difficult Interior areas to enter and may take several attempts.
Field Note
Beneath The Umbrella.
Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Interior of The Standing Stones
The Umbrella
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuit
The Umbrella is the upper region associated with The Village, located inside the walls of The Standing Stones. It is the largest climbable Interior area on Kami. The Upside Down lies beneath it.
Known Access
Bathhouse Entrance
The only discovered entrance begins in The Village bathhouse. Find the corner wall near the entrance with green glowing plants and use the Piton Clip Method through the roof corner to enter The Upside Down.
Into The Umbrella
From The Upside Down, aid climb upward into The Umbrella and head toward the rock bearing the painting of three Ancients.
Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Beneath The Mirror · Above Bell Cave
Amphitheater
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuit
Amphitheater is located beneath The Mirror and above Bell Cave at The Terraces.
Known Access
Access
Amphitheater can only be reached by climbing upward from The Umbrella.
Field Note
There is not much climbing here: a couple of short routes and one good roof route. The area is generally not worth the effort required to reach it.
Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Interior of The Vault
The Floating Stones
Discovered by BruteForcic
The Floating Stones is an out-of-bounds Interior area inside Shepherds Cave and the interior of The Vault.
Known Access
Access
Enter by clipping through the floor of a checkpoint room. Grab the small crack close to the floor and carefully move around using the resulting glitched campus position.
Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Interior of The Peril
The Abyss
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuit
The Abyss is entered from the triangular cave at the far-left end of The Palace of Winds. It is an oceanic slab of fissures and roofs leading upward toward The Rapture.
Known Access
Triangular Cave
Climb into the backside of the triangular cave. Place a piton on the left wall as high as possible, go off belay, and use the Piton Clip Method to enter The Abyss.
Field Note
There are several ways inside, but rappelling in from The Dome is recommended when possible to avoid poor fogging caused by the cutscene. Because of invisible walls, it is best to head up Genesis before exploring.
Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Interior of The Peril
The Rapture
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuit
The Rapture begins above The Abyss at a massive ledge spanning the length of The Peril’s interior. It contains a maze of roofs leading upward toward Limbo.
Known Access
Access
Reach The Rapture by climbing upward through The Abyss.
Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Interior of The Dome
Limbo
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuit
Limbo is located above The Rapture within The Dome’s interior and is reached through The Peril. It is the highest climbable region along this Interior path and contains one of the largest climbable roofs in the game.
Known Access
Access
Reach Limbo by continuing upward from The Rapture.
Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Interior of The Dome
The Attic
Discovered by KJ_Fuurlix
The Attic is a high Interior area within The Dome. There are only a limited number of routes here, but the area offers a particularly good vista.
Known Access
Bat Hang
The Attic is accessed through Bat Hang. Reaching it first requires climbing all three Genesis routes in sequence through The Abyss, The Rapture, and Limbo.
Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Interior of The Secret
The Mid
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuit
The Mid is the interior of The Secret. It is a U-shaped cave filled with rocky roofs and sheets of ice.
Known Access
Miniature Kami
The first discovered entrance is through the roof directly above miniature Kami. Use the Piton Clip Method to pass through.
The Snow Globe
Once inside, circumnavigate the snow globe by aid climbing until you reach a small hole. Rappel through it to enter the U-shaped cave.
Field Note
There is climbing to be done inside, although the effort required to reach the area is generally greater than what the area offers.
Visual Reference
Entrance Gallery
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Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Interior of The Blades
Vostok
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuit
Vostok is located within The Blades wall. Beyond its entrance lies an enormous cave filled with ice.
Once you enter the main cave, escaping can be extremely difficult. The cave is very deep, and you may not be able to return to an older save.
Known Access
Damaas’s Home
The first discovered entrance begins in the backpack room of Damaas’s home. Enter, turn around, and climb toward the upper-right side of the entrance doorway. Near the roof is a small diagonal crack.
First Roof
Place pitons high near the roof to the left of the crack and use the Piton Clip Method. Once Aava clips far enough through, place another piton inside the glitched area and pull upward.
Second Roof
Continue across the rocks toward the large ramp leading into another roof. Clip through the roof, walk through the invisible wall on climber’s left, and rappel down to the snow.
Ice Cave
Continue through the cave and climb the low-angle slab to reach Vostok’s massive ice cave.
Visual Reference
Entrance Gallery
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Visual Reference
Area Preview
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Discovery Record
Finding the Interior
The first established Interior areas were discovered in April 2026 as climbers began exploring beyond Kami's ordinary walls.
The AbyssThe RaptureLimboThe CoreThe Upside DownThe Mid
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuitThe Floating Stones
Discovered by BruteForcicThe UmbrellaAmphitheaterVostok
Discovered by ManInAWhiteSuitThe Attic
Discovered by KJ_FuurlixReturn to the Guide
Routes & Styles
Return to Chapter 03 for the Catalogue's route-style definitions, including the Interior classification.