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The Climb Print

Mont Ventoux, hairpin by hairpin.

The road up Mont Ventoux from Bédoin, drawn over the contour lines of the mountain it climbs: 21.5 km and 1,601 metres of height gained, from the roundabout at 309 m to the summit at 1,910 m, with the gradient of every kilometre set out beneath it.

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The Climb Print of Mont Ventoux from Bédoin: the road over the contours of its mountain, and beneath it the profile, every kilometre coloured by its gradient — 21.5 km, 1,601 m gained
Mont Ventoux · Contours · 12 × 16 in · black frame
Length 21.5 km · 13.3 mi Height gained 1,601 m · 5,253 ft Average 7.5% Steepest kilometre km 7 · 12.1% From — to Bédoin (309 m) — Mont Ventoux (1,910 m) Road D974
What the print holds

Mont Ventoux on paper

The D974 starts at the left of the sheet, at the roundabout in Bédoin where it leaves the D19, and keeps low at first, running east along the foot of the mountain. Then it turns north-east and starts to climb in earnest, swinging round towards the eastern side of the sheet before it turns back north-west across the top of the mountain. The line ends at the summit, near the top of the map.

Under the map, the profile puts numbers to that shape. The opening six kilometres read 2.1, 3.3, 4.6, 6.0, 5.6 and 4.6%. At Saint-Estève, about 6 km up, the road bends left into the forest and the gradient rises with it: the seventh kilometre is 12.1%, the steepest of the climb, its figure printed in bold and its block the only one coloured in the band for 12% and over.

The forest carries on to Chalet Reynard, at about km 15, where the trees stop and the road from Sault comes in. On the profile that stretch is a long run of heavy colour with no kilometre under 7.6%: after the 12.1 come 8.6, 10.7, 9.4, 8.9, 10.5, 8.4, 9.9 and 7.6%, four of them in the 9–12% band.

Above the chalet the slopes are bare stone all the way up, and the profile allows two easier kilometres, 6.8 and 5.2%, before steepening again through 7.0, 9.1 and 7.4% to 11.0% for the twenty-first. The last few hundred metres to the top read 3.4%.

This is the side the Tour de France used for its first summit finish on Ventoux, in 1958: a time trial from Bédoin, won by Charly Gaul. Under the profile the print sets out the figures in a row, 21.5 km, 1,601 m gained, an average of 7.5%, the steepest kilometre (the seventh, at 12.1%) and 1,910 m at the top. Your own time up it can be added in the Studio.

Mont Ventoux, kilometre by kilometre

The gradient of every kilometre, as the profile on the print colours it: 21.5 km, 1,601 m gained, 7.5% on average, the steepest kilometre the seventh at 12.1%.

  1. 12.1%
  2. 23.3%
  3. 34.6%
  4. 46.0%
  5. 55.6%
  6. 64.6%
  7. 712.1%
  8. 88.6%
  9. 910.7%
  10. 109.4%
  11. 118.9%
  12. 1210.5%
  13. 138.4%
  14. 149.9%
  15. 157.6%
  16. 166.8%
  17. 175.2%
  18. 187.0%
  19. 199.1%
  20. 207.4%
  21. 2111.0%
  22. 22450 m3.4%

Three ways to draw Mont Ventoux

The same road and the same profile each time, and every palette in the Studio on top of them.

Mont Ventoux as the Contours treatment of The Climb Print
ContoursThe road over the contours of its mountain, every fifth line heavier.
Mont Ventoux as the Relief treatment of The Climb Print
ReliefThe same lines over the light and shade of the slopes.
Mont Ventoux as the Night contours treatment of The Climb Print
Night contoursA dark sheet: the contours in light, the road and the profile in the accent.
How it works

From the Studio to your wall in three steps.

The Heatmap print: a year of London runs layered into one map of familiar roads
Step 01

Choose your subject

Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.

The Contours print: a year of runs drawn as density contours, the ground darkest where the miles repeat
Step 02

Choose your style

Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.

The Distance rings print: one ring for every activity of the year, the longer arcs the longer days
Step 03

We print and frame it

Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.

Mont Ventoux climb print: the questions

Can I mark the Tom Simpson memorial?

Tom Simpson collapsed and died on this climb during the Tour de France on 13 July 1967, and the memorial to him stands beside the road about a kilometre below the summit. Nothing built beside the road is drawn, so the memorial appears only if you put it there yourself, as a named point set beside the line in the Studio.

Which way up the mountain is this?

The south side, from Bédoin: the road the Tour de France has used most often, and the one this page draws. Two other roads reach the top, from Malaucène on the north side and from Sault on the east, and the Sault road joins this one at Chalet Reynard. The print keeps to the Bédoin road from the roundabout to the summit, and the figures beneath it are that road's alone.

Can the whole climb be ridden in winter?

No. The road above Chalet Reynard is closed in winter, from about mid-November, and that closed part is roughly the last six kilometres of the print: the bare upper slopes, from the 6.8% sixteenth kilometre to the summit.

Where do the road and the gradients come from?

The road is OpenStreetMap’s, as Overture Maps publishes it, traced from Bédoin to Mont Ventoux. The heights are the Terrain Tiles Mapzen built and AWS Open Data hosts, read every ten metres along the road, with the foot set to 309 m and the top to 1,910 m, the signposted heights; each kilometre’s gradient is measured on that line. Where the road runs through forest the elevation data can read a kilometre a point or so steeper or gentler than the tarmac, so the figure for a single kilometre is close rather than exact; the length, the height gained and the average are the climb’s.

Can I put my own time on it?

Yes. Type it in the Studio with the day you rode it, or bring in your Strava rides and choose the one: the Studio reads your time from the foot to the top off the track, rather than the whole ride. It sits in the corner of the print, where the other prints keep their statistics, and comes off again with one tap.

Can I have a climb that is not on this list?

Not as The Climb Print yet: each climb is traced from its road and checked against its published figures and its numbered bends before it is offered. Any mountain can be The Mountain Print, though, drawn in its own contour lines with the ride you recorded on Strava laid over it.

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Mont Ventoux, on the wall.

Compose it free in the Studio: the treatment, the palette, your own words beneath and your time to the top in the corner. Order it when it is the climb you rode.

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