The Mountain Print
Mont Ventoux, in its own contour lines.
The Giant of Provence, drawn from its own terrain: Mont Ventoux's long ridge standing alone above the plains of the Vaucluse, the steep ground to the north, the broad southern slopes the road from Bédoin climbs, and the summit marked at 1,910 metres.
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What the print holds
Mont Ventoux on paper
Ventoux is a single long ridge, and the print sets it straight across the sheet. The summit sits in the middle of a thin ring stretched from west to east along the crest, and the ridge carries on either side of it for kilometres, dropping only slowly towards the edges of the frame.
North of the summit the lines tighten. That side of the mountain falls hard towards the Toulourenc, whose valley shows as a trough of lines crossing the upper part of the sheet, with lower ridges rising again beyond it at the top.
South of the ridge the picture changes. The lines run out in long, evenly spaced bands down the southern slopes, the forested side of the mountain, where the road from Bédoin climbs to Chalet Reynard before the last bare kilometres to the top. The forest is not drawn, and neither is the bare white stone above it: the print draws the shape of the ground, not its surface.
At the default frame, sixteen kilometres across, the contours are fifty metres apart and every two hundred and fiftieth metre is heavier, from about 270 metres in the valleys to the summit. That is more than 1,600 metres of mountain on one sheet, rising from lowland farms and vineyards to the top.
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 Mont Ventoux
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.
Mont Ventoux print: the questions
Is the road drawn?
No, the print draws the mountain rather than the roads. If you rode it and recorded the day on Strava, choose the ride in the Studio and your own line is drawn up the mountain over the contours, with its distance, climb and date in the corner, and the frame widens to hold the whole climb. The Climb Print draws the road itself, from Bédoin to the summit over these same contours, with the gradient of every kilometre beneath it.
Is it 1,909 or 1,910 metres?
Older maps and signs give 1,909 metres. The IGN, the French mapping agency, has given 1,910 since 2020, and that is the height the print carries.
Is the Tom Simpson memorial marked?
It stands beside the road on the eastern side, on the final climb above Chalet Reynard. The print draws the ground rather than anything built on it; add a named point at the memorial and it is marked where it stands.
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 Mont Ventoux’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.
Can it show the route I took up Mont Ventoux?
Yes, if you recorded it on Strava. Bring your activities into the Studio and it offers the ones that cross the frame; the one you choose is drawn over the contours in the accent colour, with a ring where you set off and its distance, climb and date in the corner. A route that runs off the edge widens the frame to hold it. Without a recording the print draws the ground alone, and a named point marks a hut, a camp or a col.
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Mont Ventoux, 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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