Eventually, some time had passed, and before everyone knew it, it was all snowy and everyone put on their winter gear, but instead of celebrating Christmas, they were going to Mount Neverest.

"Mount Neverrest: the highest peak in the world!" Scrooge narrated to the young ones. "Most prized of the seven summits, Neverrest has claimed the world's finest explorers. It is said to be completely unclimbable! But now that smug stack of stalagmites has to deal with Scrooge McDuck!"

"So, instead of celebrating Christmas at the mansion-" Atticus started.

"Santa Claus is not allowed in my home," Scrooge replied firmly. "He knows what he did."

"We're following you on the way up Mount Certain Doom here?" Atticus then finished.

"Oh, Mount Neverrest is three times deadlier than Mount Certain Doom," Huey smiled eagerly. "The mountain's summit remains shrouded in mystery. No one's ever seen the top, which makes it the perfect place to earn my Junior Woodchuck Cartography Badge!" he then took out said badge, waving it in his face.

"You don't have to wave it in my face." Atticus told him.

"Sorry," Huey replied before reaching in his backpack to take out some gadgets. "Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a topographical landscape that hasn't already been mapped?"

"No?" Louie replied.

"Well, very!" Huey told him. "I've got a geographic information system, satellite radar detector, thermal-"

"I don't think you need all that." Jessica said.

"He doesn't!" Scrooge replied. "All you need is your wits, determination, and these, my old surveying tools." he then held out a tool to his grandnephew.

"Wow!" Huey beamed as he took a hold of it. "They're rusty with the wisdom of experience."

"Now, we just have to get the door open." Mo said.

"Into the blistering cold..." Cherry said, looking out the window.

"I'm gonna be the first person to set foot on the top of Neverrest!" Scrooge smiled proudly.

"And I'm gonna be the first person to draw a picture of it!" Huey added.

"Yeah, this is so much better than celebrating Christmas." Cherry rolled her eyes.

"Cheer up, Cherry," Atticus comforted. "I'm sure it'll be lots of fun."

"Yeah, I guess." Cherry said.

"This is your captain speaking," Launchpad smiled as he came to the door. "Flight doors are now open."

"Thanks, Launchpad." Lionel said.

They soon came out the door, following Scrooge as he let them out.

"Ah! Drink it in, kids," Scrooge smiled to the group. "Her deadly peaks, her bottomless crevasses, her flawless sheets of brilliant white snow betray a new hint to the ancient secrets hidden beneath, completely untrod by man! The untamed majesty of Mount Neverrest!"

But as they got to bottom of the mountain, they soon saw many people.

"Look, Webby, churros!" Mo beamed.

"Ooh!" Webby replied.

The two soon ran off to go and get some while Scrooge looked disappointed.

"This is interesting." Lionel said.

"What are all these people doing here?" Cherry began to rant. "I thought this place was supposed to be uncharted territory, not some sort of ski resort!"

"Well, some people just think that it's fair to build all this in uncharted territory." Atticus said.

Cherry stuck her tongue out, rolling her eyes.

"And this map isn't accurate at all!" Huey complained as he found a map. "Mountain goats aren't native to this region, and why is the sun wearing sunglasses? Is he looking at another brighter sun?"

"It's just one of those useless maps." Lionel told him.

"Don't pay any attention to these tourists, my boy," Scrooge comforted Huey. "Nothing but tchotchkes and cheese puffs. We are real explorers!"

"Like George Mallardy!" Huey piped up.

"Who?" Lionel asked.

"Only the greatest mountaineer of the 20th century!" Huey replied, showing a poster which celebrated 75 years. "Legend has it that Mallardy made it farther up the mountain than anyone, but was lost trying to rescue a fellow incompetent climber, famously known as the Neverrest Ninnie."

Louie saw a plaque and read it aloud. "'George Mallardy. He died as he lived, freezing'."

"What a beautiful sentiment." Cherry deadpanned.

"Uh, you still sure we should do this?" Jessica asked Scrooge.

"Ach, stop your hatering!" Scrooge told them all. "That's just a load of nonsense to sell T-shirts to tourists. We're gonna outdo that quitter Mallardy by making it to the top."

"You realize there's a difference between quitting and dying, right?" Cherry asked him.

"Not to me!" Scrooge narrowed his eyes.

"Um, okay." Cherry blinked.

Meanwhile, Mo held Webby's hand as they walked around together within the crowd. Webby soon looked over, seeing a sled on sale which looked amazing to her, and where Mo knew exactly why and where she soon bought the sled for Webby.

"You didn't have to do that." Webby said.

"Hey, you're my little sister, sure I did." Mo smiled.

"Aw, thanks, Mo." Webby smiled back.

"Go, Webby!" Mo beamed. "Go sled like your little heart desires!"

"Everybody, stand back!" Webby beamed as she ran with the sled, putting it on the ground and sitting on it. "I've been waiting to do this my whole life! Sledding!" she then cheered, making herself sled down the snowy hill.

"Well, that was short-lived." Mo said.

"Well, okay." Webby soon shrugged, taking out her checklist and crossed off 'sledding'.

"Webby, Webby, you're doing it all wrong," Dewey told her. "If you want the maximum sledding experience, you need to wait for the maximum opportune moment!"

"It's true." Atticus nodded.

Webby looked to the mountain in wide wonder. "We're gonna sled down Mount Neverrest?!"

"And/or die trying!" Dewey told her.

"Whoo!" The two then cheered together.

"You two are so cute together." Mo smiled to them.

"Couldn't agree more." Atticus added.

"Wait... What?!" Dewey and Webby asked, both seeming to blush bashfully.

'They really do look cute together.' Jessica thought to herself.

"So, do you like the snow?" Lionel asked Cherry.

"It's okay, I guess." Cherry shrugged.

"I'll take that as a maybe." Lionel said.

"I've always liked cooler weather better than warmer weather." Cherry replied as she made a snowball.

"That's cool." Lionel smiled before getting a snowball to the face.

"Yep, it sure is." Cherry smirked.

"Oh, you're in for it now." Lionel smirked back.

Cherry stuck her tongue out.

"Things could get ugly~" Lionel smirked, bringing out a snowball bazooka.

"Oh, shoot!" Cherry gasped and soon ran off as Lionel shot snowballs at her.

A snowball fight soon started between the two of them, and where it sounded like they were having fun as Lionel was laughing and soon enough, so was Cherry.

"We should probably meet Scrooge and the others if-" Lionel said before getting hit by more snowballs. "Hold it! Hold everything!" he then told her, making the snowballs freeze in the air. "We better meet the others if we wanna check out Mount Neverrest."

"Sure... But later..." Chery smirked.

"Eh, you're right; that mountain's not going anywhere." Lionel smirked back.

The two soon ran off together, going back to their snowball fight, having fun together. And where Atticus was happy to see that.

"All right, true explorers!" Scrooge told the group, looking to a map. "Now, this mountain is gonna throw everything she's got at us!"

"But it'll be worth it when we find the treasure of Mount Neverrest!" Louie smirked eagerly.

"There's no treasure of Mount Neverest." Jessica told him.

"Nope, Louie out. Already gone," Louie said as he then walked away, going to get some hot chocolate. "Have fun!"

The others blinked as he sat this adventure out.

"Well, I'm still in." Atticus smiled.

"Me too." Mo added.

"Let's go set foot on the roof of the world!" Huey soon proclaimed as they began to follow Scrooge.

"And then throw ourselves off it!" Dewey replied.

"Yeah!" Webby cheered, holding her new sled.

"You two joining us?" Jessica asked Cherry and Lionel.

"Yeah... We're coming..." Cherry panted a bit. "Anything besides babysitting Louie."

"Hey!" Louie glared.

"Same here." Lionel added.

Louie pouted to them while Cherry just smirked.

"Well, you sure look adventurous." Mo said to Launchpad as they set off.

"Why, thank you." Launchpad replied.

"Why do you have all that stuff?" Atticus asked Launchpad.

"Oh, this nice guy told me that I should keep safe and warm when in the blizzardry wilderness." Launchpad replied.

"I think you might've taken it a bit too far." Lionel rolled his eyes.

"How else would I stay safe from ice fever?" Launchpad asked.

"Ice... Fever...?" Lionel rolled his eyes before poofing up the comic book. "The only ice fever I'm concerned about is Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub Zero."

"Ooh..." Cherry looked interested in the comic book.

Lionel smirked. "Ah, a fan of the Dark Knight, I see? The lady has good taste~"

Atticus knew this was Lionel's opportunity to get closer to Cherry.

"First the ice fever takes your vision," Launchpad began to explain to the others as they began their venture towards Mount Neverrest. "Then it makes you feel all warm and toasty, even though you're freezing to death. Then it makes your limbs all heavy."

"That is the worst made up fever I've ever heard of." Atticus said.

"Ach, it's just a bit nippy," Scrooge told the pilot. "How did you afford all that gear, anyway?"

"Louie put it on his corporate credit card." Launchpad smiled.

"Louie doesn't HAVE a corporate credit card." Scrooge glared.

"Oh. Louie gave me your credit card." Launchpad replied.

"Typical Louie." Atticus rolled his eyes.

"Louie is the annoying pet monkey I wish I never got." Cherry grumbled.

"He really gets on your nerves, doesn't he?" Lionel asked.

"Buddy, you don't know the half of it," Cherry grumbled. "He's always causing trouble and annoying the crap out of me."

"Wow." Lionel said.

Huey began to look around happily while Dewey observed the hill until Webby came over with her sled.

"Now?" Webby asked as she looked down.

"Not yet. We've only got one shot at this," Dewey told her. "Once you're down, there's no coming back up."

"Right." Webby said as she walked on ahead.

Dewey was about to join her.

"Can't wait!" Webby said, pushing her sled over and went to jump on it.

Dewey moved it with his foot, making her face-plant in the snow before he smirked to her. "Maximum opportune moment!"

"Ugh... Fine..." Webby grunted and muffled in the snow.

"Have patience." Mo smiled at her little sister figure.

"But it's taking too long." Webby pouted.

"Try to be patient a little longer, okay?" Mo asked.

"Fine..." Webby pouted.

"You're a good big sister." Atticus smiled to Mo.

"Aw, thank you." Mo smiled back.

They met up with the others.

They then ended up in a spot called The Point of No Return.

"Hmm... Point of no return, this way to certain death, this way to cocoa." Dewey took a look at the signs above.

"Certain death!" Dewey and Webby cheered together.

"That's the spirit." Scrooge told them.

"Let's keep going." Atticus smiled.

They soon walked on in, but Launchpad had a hard time coming in after them. Lionel soon tried to help out Launchpad, but the two soon yelled out as they ended up falling back, and where they soon ended up in a sauna.

"Launchpad, hand me my climbing spats, will ya?" Scrooge asked.

There was then no response.

"Launchpad?" Scrooge asked before they looked behind them.

"Where'd Launchpad and Lionel go?" Mo asked.

"Who knows?" Cherry shrugged. "I'm not sure I care."

"Cherry..." Atticus sighed to her response.

"Launchpad had half of our equipment!" Huey frowned.

"He's right." Atticus nodded.

Launchpad and Lionel soon got up and looked around.

"Ooh... I like it here already." Lionel beamed.

"Where am I...?" Launchpad wondered before seeing steam through his goggles which made him panic. "I've gone snowblind! The ice fever's setting in! No!"

"Or the steam is fogging up your goggles." Lionel deadpanned.

Launchpad continued to freak out.

"I'll deal with him later." Lionel said, making himself comfortable in the sauna.

"Probably cozying up with hot cocoa along with Louie," Scrooge grumbled. "Anyone else want to check it out?"

The others shook their heads a bit.

"Last thing we need on this trip is a bunch of Neverrest Ninnies." Scrooge then said with narrowed eyes.

"But I thought you said that didn't exist." Atticus said.

"Just because it's a myth doesn't mean it's not true." Scrooge replied as they moved on up.

"Well, actually-" Cherry spoke up.

"Don't you worry, kids," Scrooge replied. "It'll take more than a pompous pile of pebbles to slow your old Uncle Scrooge down! I promise, I won't let anything bad happen to you."

Part of the mountain seemed to crumble off and where one of the kids was about to fall.

"Yaugh!" Cherry yelped.

Dewey was about to fall, but Atticus soon helped him right away.

"From now on! Nothing bad from now on!" Scrooge told them before carrying on the trail. "Heads down, knees up! Let's go!"

"Wow, he really wants to conquer this mountain." Mo said.

"Must be a dream of his." Atticus replied.

"Must be." Mo said.

"You okay?" Atticus smiled.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Mo said, blushing from his smile.

"That's good." Atticus smiled.

And so, they went back out on their venture to go up the mountain with Scrooge.

"I'm gonna call this Murder Ridge, after Death Peak, but before the Chasm of Infinite Despair," Huey said, making his own map before smiling at a snow covered rock that looked cute. "Aww... I'll call that Bunny Rock."

The snow soon fell off the rock to show Bunny Rock look more like a demon. Cherry grinned to that while everyone else looked disturbed from that.

"I'm still gonna call it Bunny Rock." Huey said.

"Fair enough." Atticus shrugged.

They then continued their trail through the snow. They then came to a stopping point.

"Curse me kilts." Scrooge grumbled.

"We did bring climbing gear with us, right?" Atticus asked.

"I might have something." Scrooge replied, not going to give up.

"Great." Atticus smiled.

Webby and Dewey looked to the hill and the girl looked hopeful.

"Well, looks like we'll have to settle for a double luge-de-luge and a moderate alley-oop flatsmans 540." Dewey said to the girl.

"Sledding!" Webby cheered.

Mo smiled to Webby's excitement. Webby sat down, ready to sled, but soon, Scrooge took out some ropes to climb with.

"Knew we had some climbing gear." Atticus smiled.

"Nice try, Neverrest!" Scrooge laughed as he climbed up.

"Come on, Webby, time to go." Mo told her little sister.

"Aww.." Webby asked.

Huey and Dewey looked at her.

"I mean... Yeah..." Webby weakly cheered.

"She's trying really hard to be patient." Mo told the boys.

"That's good, she'll need that if she wants to become a good sledder." Dewey replied.

Meanwhile back at the sauna...

Lionel continued to pamper himself while Launchpad made a bit of a fool of himself.

"The next stage of ice fever!" Launchpad cried out as he left the sauna and soon made it into a hot spring, slowing down a bit. "I can't remove any of my gear, or I'll freeze to death!"

"Oh, poor, poor Launchpad." Lionel sighed.

"Hey! I can hear the shrill wail of Neverrest's cruel wind calling me!" Launchpad called out, ending up in the water before he soon continued going. "No! This is not the end of Launchpad McQuack! It will be by plane crash or not at all!" he then climbed out of the water, coming up beside a pig who was trying to lounge, then touched him before panicking. "Aah! A yeti!"

"Oh, Launchpad." Lionel sighed.

While the others climbed, Scrooge began to dump out some useless items.

"This reminds me of a mountain climbing movie we saw the other day." Cherry commented as she and the others dangled from the rope.

"Scrooge, stop dumping out some of the items." Atticus told the old billionaire duck.

"I think Atticus is right," Huey added. "The Junior Woodchuck Guide suggests we need at least some of this stuff."

"We don't need anything but grit, gumption, and-" Scrooge said, dumping out more things.

"And water!" Atticus piped up, grabbing a hold of the canteen.

"Whew." Mo sighed.

Webby then held out her sled. "Now?"

"I think that would technically be more falling than sledding." Dewey told her.

Webby pouted from that.

"He's right." Mo told Webby.

"When?" Webby pouted to Mo.

"Soon." Mo promised her.

"Fine." Webby sighed.

"Ha-ha! Take that, you magniloquent molehill!" Scrooge laughed as he soon came to the top and pulled the rope to help the others up.

"Gah!" Cherry yelped as her pants rided up from that. "I think I just got a wedgie..."

The others were soon pulled up, much to Huey's delight, "What a rush! I thought we were done for."

"Uh, guys?" Atticus spoke up as he saw something familiar.

"Nonsense, lad!" Scrooge told his grandnephew. "We're going straight to the top."

"Guys?!" Atticus cried out.

"We must've gained some serious altitude with that climb," Huey smiled out of excitement. "We should be closer than ever, and-"

"GUYS!" Atticus shouted.

"What?!" The others asked him.

"Doesn't that look familiar?" Atticus asked, pointing to something.

"Huh?" Huey asked before seeing what Atticus saw. "Wait, is that Bunny Rock? This can't be right! Maybe we should backtrack to figure out where we went wrong."

"Please! I'm sure that's an entirely different naturally occurring demon-faced rock." Scrooge replied as it began to snow.

"Maybe, but it is starting to snow." Mo said.

"Yeah, I think the smart thing to do is-" Cherry began.

"Set up camp!" Scrooge replied. "There's a cave up about 500 meters ahead."

"I guess." Atticus shrugged.

They soon hiked up off to the snowy mountain which took some time and they finally found the cave.

"See?" Scrooge told the kids.

"Cool dark and foreboding cave, Uncle Scrooge!" Dewey smiled as he looked all around.

"But this area's uncharted," Huey said to his great-uncle. "How did you know this would be here?"

"Uh, guys, I don't think we're the first climbers to have this idea." Webby spoke up, finding broken goggles.

"I think we need some light." Mo said.

"Got it," Huey said, taking out a glow stick. "Whoa..."

They soon saw a cave wall of climbers before them who seemed to be headless.

"Where are their heads?" Dewey asked.

"Found 'em!" Webby said, finding a wall with the missing heads.

"Um, maybe we should turn back." Cherry said.

She soon went to look for a way out, but felt confused. "But... Wait... Didn't we come through that way?!"

"We must've gotten turned around," Huey said, quickly checking his map. "It's gotta be here somewhere!"

"Uh, guys?" Mo spoke up as she found a skeleton.

They all looked with her as it wore a T-Shirt which said 'I didn't survive Mount Neverrest'.

"Is that...?" Mo was about to ask.

"George Mallardy," Scrooge remarked. "Greatest mountaineer of the 20th century."

"He wrote something on the wall." Atticus said as he noticed writing next to the skeleton.

"'Curse you, McDuck'?" Cherry read aloud.

The others glanced back over to Scrooge in response to that.

"Ach, jinx," Scrooge shrugged, crossing his arms with a nonchalant smirk. "If I had a nickel for every person who cursed me with their dying breath, I'd be as rich as I already am."

"Is there something you'd like to share with us, Scrooge?" Atticus glared.

"Uh...?" Scrooge replied.

"Huey?" Cherry signaled.

"Junior Woodchuck Rule 1118: A Woodchuck chief must always be honest with his crew." Huey glared at his granduncle.

"Fine. Ugh..." Scrooge groaned before he confessed a secret. "I was the Neverrest Ninny."

"What?!" Huey, Dewey, Webby, Atticus, Mo, and Cherry asked out of shock.

"75 years ago today, I hired Mallardy to lead me up the mountain," Scrooge began to explain. "I'd just made my first million, and I wanted to mark the occasion by doing something no one had ever done. I may have been a little inexperienced, but I didn't want to leave anything to chance."

"Understandable." Mo said.

"Mallardy mocked me mercilessly," Scrooge continued. "He ordered me to lighten my load, but I was afraid to risk my emergency supplies and my sizable money belt, so he cut me loose. I was weighed down by doubt and branded the Neverrest Ninny. Mallardy was never heard from again."

"How dark." Cherry commented.

"You said it." Atticus said.

"But he became the man to make it the farthest up the mountain!" Scrooge continued, stepping over one of the severed legs with a smirk. "Now he's the second farthest!"

"Uncle Scrooge!" Huey glared.

"What? He was a backstabbing braggart who almost got me killed!" Scrooge defended.

"I think the mountain got even." Mo said.

"And now we'll get even with the mountain!" Scrooge replied. "We will brave the new frontier, chart the unknown!"

"I'm starting to miss Lionel, I could really use a joke right about now." Cherry commented.

"Scrooge, how can we chart the unknown if we don't know what we're charting?" Atticus asked.

"I'm telling you, this mountain doesn't make any sense." Huey had to agree.

"Well, I think this is all a bunch of-" Cherry spoke up.

"I think I hear the wind coming from this way!" Webby said, running off suddenly.

"Webby, wait!" Mo cried out of worry.

"Good initiative, Webbigail!" Scrooge praised.

"Thanks, Mr. McDuck!" Webby replied, coming up right beside him suddenly.

"What the-?" Cherry asked.

"Where did you come from?" Mo asked.

"I thought you already knew that story?" Webby replied, feeling confused.

"No, how did you get here?" Cherry asked.

"Oh. I found an opening." Webby replied.

"Okay, but how did you get over to that side so fast?" Atticus asked.

"Only one way to find out," Scrooge replied. "We follow Webbigail."

"Agreed." Mo said.

"This is just insane..." Cherry grumbled.

"Come on." Atticus told her.

They soon followed after Webby, passing by the skeleton. They soon reached the exit of the cave.

"Oh, thank goodness!" Cherry sighed in relief.

The others cheered as they soon made it out of the cave.

"We made it!" Scrooge smiled all around. "We should be closer than ever now."

"Is that Bunny Rock?" Mo asked after seeing a familiar rock formation.

"Oh, man..." Cherry groaned from that.

"Aw, come on!" Scrooge complained.