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The collection · Places and courses

Cycling climbs

The profiles of the great climbs — Alpe d'Huez, Mont Ventoux, the Stelvio, the Tourmalet, Sa Calobra, Box Hill — with every hairpin, the gradient by colour and the numbers that matter: length, height gained, average and steepest kilometre.

What to make meanwhile

Coming · the first prints in this family are being drawn

Being drawn

The first prints in this family, each on sale here as soon as it is ready.

  1. 01Alpe d'Huez
  2. 02Mont Ventoux
  3. 03The Stelvio
  4. 04Sa Calobra
  5. 05Box Hill
  6. 06The Tourmalet
  7. 07The Gavia
  8. 08The Grossglockner

Meanwhile, in the collection

Prints you can make today, composed free in the Studio.

Elevation: Layered altitude profiles from your GPS tracks.
ElevationLayered altitude profiles from your GPS tracks.
Summit silhouettes: Layered altitude silhouettes from up to 10 tracks.
Summit silhouettesLayered altitude silhouettes from up to 10 tracks.
Heatmap: Every familiar road, layered together.
HeatmapEvery familiar road, layered together.
Elevation orbit: Recorded altitude wraps around a circle for up to 24 tracks.
Elevation orbitRecorded altitude wraps around a circle for up to 24 tracks.

Good to know

Is the profile accurate?

It will be: each profile is drawn from the road's own elevation data at ten-metre steps, not a stylised curve, with the hairpins numbered where the climb numbers them.

Can it show my own ride up it?

That is the plan: connect Strava and the Studio will find your ride on the climb and print your time beside the profile, as the Marathon Print does for a race. It is not in the Studio yet; until it is, the Elevation print layers the profiles of your own rides.

How is it printed and framed?

Like every print here: giclée printed on 200 gsm enhanced matte fine-art paper with archival pigment inks, then framed by hand in solid wood — a classic frame in eight colours or a box frame, with or without a mount — or sent rolled for a frame you already have. Made to order and posted tracked; the print guide has the sizes.

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.

  • 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