The Mountain Print
Ben Nevis, in its own contour lines.
The highest ground in Britain, drawn from its own terrain: the broad summit plateau, the cliffs of the north face falling into the glen below them, and the summit marked at its surveyed 1,345 metres.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · No data needed.
What the print holds
Ben Nevis on paper
Ben Nevis is two mountains depending on the side you stand on. From Glen Nevis, to the south and west, it is a long and fairly even slope — the side the tourist path climbs in its zigzags — and on the print that slope is a wide sheet of evenly spaced lines. On the north-east side the mountain ends in cliffs, hundreds of metres of them above the Allt a' Mhuilinn, and there the lines crowd so closely that they nearly merge into a single band.
Across that glen, the rings of Carn Mòr Dearg sit north-east of the summit, joined to it by a thin, curving strip of lines: the Carn Mòr Dearg Arête, one of the finest ridge walks in Scotland, drawn as a narrow bridge between two knots. Beyond it, Aonach Mòr and Aonach Beag fill the eastern side of the sheet. Glen Nevis curls round the southern side of the mountain towards the gorge below Steall, and the lowest ground on the sheet is barely above sea level, which is why it holds more than thirteen hundred metres of climb.
The print draws a contour every twenty-five metres at this frame and makes every fifth one heavier, so a heavy line marks each 125 metres of height. On the tourist path side they climb in an orderly stair; on the north face they arrive all at once.
The summit itself sits on a broad, gently rounded plateau at the top of the rings. Close the frame in and the plateau reads for what it is: a wide flat top with the gullies of the north face biting into its northern edge.
What to frame
Each opens the Studio already framed about the summit. Widen it, close in, or drag the print to move it; the contour interval follows the ground in the frame.
Three ways to draw Ben Nevis
The same terrain each time, and every palette in the Studio on top of it.
How it works
From the Studio to your wall in three steps.
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.
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.
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.
Ben Nevis print: the questions
Which way up is the print?
North at the top, as on an Ordnance Survey map. The north face and the glen below it are in the upper right of the sheet; the tourist path side is the lower left.
Can I have the Three Peaks as a set?
Yes. Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Yr Wyddfa each have a page of their own, drawn the same way at a frame chosen for each, so the three hang together; order them in the same palette and paper and they read as one piece.
Can I add the date I climbed it?
The line beneath the name is yours to write — a date, a name, the weather that day — and the typeface and palette are yours to choose.
Where do the contours come from?
From public elevation data — the Terrain Tiles Mapzen built and AWS Open Data hosts, which join SRTM and national terrain models — traced into lines by the Studio as you frame the print, about sixty of them from the lowest ground in the frame to the highest. Nothing is drawn by hand. The height beside the summit is Ben Nevis’s surveyed one, not a figure read off the grid.
Can I print a hill that is not on this list?
Yes. Search the Studio for any hill by name and it is drawn the same way, framed with the ground around it. The print then carries its name and coordinates but no height: a height on a poster should be the surveyed figure, and the grid is too coarse to supply one.
- Made to orderPrinted for you, never from stock
- Fine-art paperArchival inks, framed by hand
- Tracked deliveryUK delivery £7.85, tracked · worldwide, priced at checkout
- Arrives damaged?We replace it, no quibble
Ben Nevis, on the wall.
Compose it free in the Studio: the frame, the treatment, the palette and your own words beneath. Order it when it is the mountain you mean.
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