The Climb Print
Grossglockner, hairpin by hairpin.
The Großglockner High Alpine Road from Fusch to the Fuscher Törl: 19.8 km of the B107 gaining 1,615 metres, drawn over the contours of the ground it climbs, with its 14 Kehren numbered upwards, the way the road numbers them.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · Your own time on it, if you like.
What the print holds
Grossglockner on paper
The Kehren — the hairpins — all lie in the upper part of the climb, so the map is framed on its last 11.4 km, from km 8.4 to the Törl. The valley road up from Fusch is left off the top of the sheet. Below the map, the profile keeps it, from the foot at 813 metres.
This print reads downwards. The road comes in at the top and climbs south, down the sheet: Kehre 1, at 1,392 metres, is near the top of the sheet, and the Kehren stack up below it as the road works south, with the Fuscher Törl at the bottom right. Kehre 13 is at 2,343 metres and Kehre 14, just below the Törl, at 2,374.
The profile starts on the flat. The first two kilometres out of Fusch are 1.3% and 2.2%, the third 6.2%, and the fourth goes to 10.1% before 7.4% and 6.2% bring it down again. The seventh, at 2.3%, is almost level, and it is the last easy kilometre of the climb.
From the eighth kilometre the gradient does not drop below 8.5% until the last stretch. The eighth, ninth and tenth are 10.6%, 11.1% and 10.2%; then come 9.5% and 8.5%, 10.5% for the thirteenth, 9.3% and 9.4%, and 11.4% for the sixteenth, the steepest kilometre on the road. The seventeenth to the nineteenth hold 9.7%, 9.5% and 10.2%, and the final stretch to the Törl, at 2,428 metres, is 7.5%. The flat start brings the average for the whole road down to 8.1%.
The road was opened on 3 August 1935, and its engineer was Franz Wallack. The Glocknerkönig, the road's own race for amateurs, finishes at the Fuscher Törl.
Grossglockner, kilometre by kilometre
The gradient of every kilometre, as the profile on the print colours it: 19.8 km, 1,615 m gained, 8.1% on average, the steepest kilometre the sixteenth at 11.4%.
- 11.3%
- 22.2%
- 36.2%
- 410.1%
- 57.4%
- 66.2%
- 72.3%
- 810.6%
- 911.1%
- 1010.2%
- 119.5%
- 128.5%
- 1310.5%
- 149.3%
- 159.4%
- 1611.4%
- 179.7%
- 189.5%
- 1910.2%
- 20826 m7.5%
Three ways to draw Grossglockner
The same road and the same profile each time, and every palette in the Studio on top of them.
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.
Grossglockner climb print: the questions
Does the climb go on to the Edelweißspitze?
No. A cobbled spur road climbs on from the Törl to the Edelweißspitze, but the climb on the print stops at the Fuscher Törl, where Clemens Holzmeister's memorial to the workers who died building the road stands. Only the road and the ground are drawn, so the memorial is not; a named point at the Törl marks it.
Do cyclists pay the toll?
No. The Großglockner High Alpine Road is a toll road, but it is free for cyclists, and it is open from early May to early November. The toll station stands at Ferleiten, at about 1,145 metres.
Why do the Kehren count upwards?
That is how the road numbers them: Kehre 1 is the lowest and Kehre 14 the highest, just under the Törl. The print keeps the road's order, so on this sheet the numbers grow as you read down the page, which is also the way the road climbs.
Where do the road and the gradients come from?
The road is OpenStreetMap’s, as Overture Maps publishes it, traced from Fusch to Fuscher Törl. 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 813 m and the top to 2,428 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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Grossglockner, 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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