With more and more compact keyboards becoming a trend nowadays, Mountain saw fit to release their own special keyboard sporting the 60% form factor. While typists, people working in financial departments or other industries are not bothered by large keyboards since they also need to use a numeric pad, users with more limited space and gamers do prefer to save space on the table and use at the same time more for the mouse movements. What is a 60% keyboard you may ask? Well, it is often a mechanical keyboard lacking the numeric pad, function keys, the navigation key cluster but also the arrow keys. The new Everest 60 keyboard from Mountain alters this standard with many interesting features and a custom layout with the inclusion of arrow keys. Need more productivity with it? Mountain has a solution here as well with the numeric pad which can be attached to the Everest 60 as an upgrade!

The manufacturer has sent us both Everest 60 keyboard and the numeric pad upgrade kit to test and review; as you have already seen from the previous Mountain reviews, the products come in boxes with a unique layout as well:

The larger box contains the Everest 60 keyboard and is built in the usual Mountain style, a combination of black and blue, with a magnetic opening:

The magnetic part includes a cutout, to create a Mountain manufacturer logo:

On the side, Mountain reminds us of the cooperation with Plastic Bank, to help prevent harmful plastic entering the ocean; here we will also note the product serial number and internal code name:

The opposite side informs us of the keyboard layout, but also of the used switch type. Speaking of the available switches for this keyboard, we do have:

-Linear 45, which features a translucent housing, 45g actuation force, a 2mm pre-travel and a 4mm total travel

-Linear 45 Speed, which also comes with a translucent housing, 45g actuation force, a very low 1.1mm pre-travel and a 3.4mm total travel

-Tactile 55, which has a translucent housing, 55g actuation force, a 2mm pre-travel and a 4mm total travel

All of these are pre-lubed and offer smooth tactility with minimum noise levels; they come with a rating of 100 million actuations and come with a 3-pin plate-mount design:

On the back side of the box, Mountain highlights the main features of the Everest 60, by using separate photos, but we will also note the list of package contents and hardware specifications:

The top cover lifts in two parts, one of which comes with an interesting drawing while the keyboard was being designed:

Here we will also find a small company description from Mountain’s founder, Tobias Brinkmann:

The bottom box layer comes with protective foam which surrounds the rest of the bundle:

Besides the Quick Start Guide, we will also receive a nice set of stickers:

The manual will describe the hot-swapping capabilities, how to operate the optional numeric pad, how to connect to the keyboard, check out the other accessories, but also how to access the hotkeys: