The Mountain Print
Everest, in its own contour lines.
The highest ground on earth, drawn from its own terrain: Everest with Lhotse and Nuptse at its shoulder and the glaciers of Nepal and Tibet at its feet, the summit marked at 8,849 metres, the height China and Nepal announced together in 2020.
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What the print holds
Everest on paper
At the default frame of twenty-two kilometres Everest is not an isolated peak but the highest point of a wall. The summit sits in the middle of the sheet on the frontier between Nepal and Tibet, and the lines crowd around it into a tight knot that runs south across the South Col to Lhotse. From Lhotse the wall turns west as Nuptse, and between that wall and Everest's own south-west face lies the Western Cwm, a long, enclosed valley of ice that the print draws as a pocket of wider spacing walled in on three sides.
The glaciers are the valleys of this sheet. The Khumbu flows out of the Western Cwm and bends south-west past the site of the Nepalese base camp; the Rongbuk glaciers drain the northern side into Tibet; the Kangshung lies under the eastern face. On a contour print a valley shows as lines bending into a V that points up it, so each glacier reads as a set of chevrons climbing towards the mountain.
The print draws a contour every hundred metres at this frame and makes every fifth one heavier. The lowest ground on the whole sheet is still above four thousand metres, so the drawing starts where most mountains finish, and the rings keep coming for another four and a half kilometres of height before they close at the top. Around the summit they are packed so hard against each other that the knot prints nearly solid, which is the truest picture of the steepness we can give.
Pumori and the ridge above base camp fill the western side of the frame; to the east, beyond Lhotse, the ground drops away towards the Kangshung.
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 Everest
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.
Everest print: the questions
Which height does the print use?
8,849 metres — 8,848.86 rounded — the figure China and Nepal announced jointly in December 2020 and both now use. Older books and prints often give 8,848.
Where is base camp on the print?
The Nepalese base camp lies on the Khumbu Glacier south-west of the summit, inside the default frame. The print draws the ground rather than the tents, so add it as a named point if it matters to you. The Tibetan base camp at Rongbuk lies to the north, inside the forty-kilometre frame.
Does the print show the routes up?
No — it draws the mountain, not the ways people have climbed it. The South Col route and the North Ridge are both visible as ground, and you can mark a camp or a col with a named point of your own.
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 Everest’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.
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Everest, 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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