How to use the Mountain climb retro template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Mountain climb retro template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Mountain climb retro”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Start at the summit: agree what the goal was. Then fill the ropes and the rockfall from memory, and finish with the kit list for the next climb.”
Fill in each part
- The summit What were we trying to reach, and did we get there?
- Ropes What held us when it got steep?
- Rockfall What hit us that we didn’t see coming?
- Pack for next time What will we bring on the next climb?
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Mountain climb retro board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Hot air balloon retro
A picture-led retro: what lifts the team, what weighs it down, the weather ahead and where the balloon should go next.
Mad, sad, glad retro
A feelings-first retro: what frustrated people, what disappointed them, what made them glad, and one thing to try.
Start, stop, continue
A quick retro: what to begin, what to drop, what to keep, and one experiment.
Liked, learned, lacked, longed for
A reflective retro in four quadrants that looks at learning, not only problems.
Starfish retro
Five arms for finer feedback than keep or stop: what to keep, do more of, do less of, stop and start.
Sprint timeline retro
Rebuild the sprint day by day before judging it, so the retro talks about what happened rather than what people remember last.