From trailhead to summit. Every switchback on your wall.

Your GPS route in white on a 3D render of the real mountain, lit by the sun the moment you summited.

Grand Teton from Mormon Row · first light

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01 · Your mountain

Your mountain.
Your route.

We rebuild the real peak in 3D from public elevation surveys, as fine as one metre across much of the US, then trace your own GPS track over it. Every switchback sits exactly where you walked it.

Terrain: Survey and lidar data
Route: Your GPX track
Shown: Grand Teton, 13,775 ft

02 · Summit light

The moment,
preserved in light.

Your GPS track knows the minute you reached the top. From that date, time and place we work out where the sun stood in the sky and light the mountain from exactly there, so every ridge casts the shadow it cast for you.

6:45 AMYour summit

Sun direction is exact. A very low or very high sun is eased slightly so the terrain stays readable.

03 · On your wall

A memory
made tangible.

Terrain, route and summit light come together in one monochrome render, printed on luster photo paper and framed, ready to hang. One climb, one moment, nobody else’s.

Watch it come together

The finished print

Your climb, framed.

Paper: Luster photo paper behind glazing, deep blacks with a soft sheen
Frame
Size: 12 × 16 in $8918 × 24 in $129
Promise: Free US shipping. If it arrives damaged or doesn’t match your preview, we remake it.

Create your print

The craft

What’s inside the frame.

01
Wood frame
¾ in (1.9 cm) thick, in black, white or red oak.
02
Acrylic front
A clear acrylic protector over the print, lighter than glass.
03
Your render, on luster photo paper
260 g/m² paper, 10 mil thick, with a soft sheen between gloss and matte.
04
Backing and hanging hardware
Hardware included. It arrives ready to hang.

Three classes

Paper, acrylic or metal.

Class 1 · The walk-up

Framed print from $89

Luster photo paper behind acrylic, in a black, white or red oak wood frame.

Class 3 · The scramble

Acrylic from $149

The print bonded behind a 10 mm block of clear acrylic. No frame; it floats off the wall.

Class 5 · The technical line

Metal from $159

Printed into aluminium with rounded corners, on a hidden float mount. Gloss or satin.

From file to frame

Four steps, one climb.

<trk><name>Grand Teton</name>
 <trkpt lat="43.73471"
        lon="-110.74146"/>
  ⋮
 <trkpt lat="43.74104"
        lon="-110.80244">
  <time>2026-08-14T06:45</time>
 </trkpt>

Your GPX

The track your watch or app recorded, including the minute you reached the top.

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On the real terrain
We drape it over a 3D model of the mountain, built from survey data.
03
In your summit light
The sun set where it stood at that minute, and the shadows with it.
04
Made to hang
On framed paper, acrylic or metal, shipped ready to hang, free within the US.

Create your print

The name

The ridge you climbed, and the artist who frames it.

ar·ête

/ə·ˈreɪt/nounmountaineering

A sharp, narrow ridge between two valleys or cirques, carved where glaciers ate into the mountain from both sides.
Often the line climbers follow to the top: the Hörnli Ridge of the Matterhorn is one.

From French arête, “fish bone; ridge”, from Latin arista, “ear of grain”.

ar·tiste

/ɑːr·ˈtiːst/nounFrench

An artist.
One who makes something with care and skill, as a craft and not only a product.

From French artiste, from Latin ars, “art, skill”.

Ar·ê·tiste

/ˌɑːr·ɛ·ˈtiːst/ · ah-reh-TEESTproper noun

The artist of the ridge.
Framed prints of the mountains you climbed: the real terrain, your route traced in white, lit by the sun at the minute you reached the top.

From arête + artiste. Spelled aretiste on the web.

Create your print

Questions

Before you upload.

01Do I need a GPX file?

No. Type the mountain or the trail you climbed and we draw the route for you. The search covers more than 690,000 named mountains and 170,000 named hiking routes worldwide, mapped by the OpenStreetMap community. If a mountain has no mapped trail to the top, we estimate the line over the terrain and tell you which part is estimated. Then you add the date and time you summited.

02Can I use my own GPS track?

Yes. Strava, AllTrails, Garmin Connect, Gaia GPS, Komoot and most watches can export a GPX file of your hike. If it has timestamps, we read your summit time from it; if not, you can enter it.

03What does “lit by your sun” mean?

We calculate where the sun was in the sky at the exact time and place you reached the summit, and light the terrain from that direction. A sunrise summit and an afternoon summit of the same mountain look different.

04Where does the terrain come from?

The best public elevation data available for the area: USGS lidar across much of the US (down to 1 m detail), swisstopo in Switzerland, IGN in France, and the Copernicus 30 m model everywhere else.

05What if it doesn’t look right?

If your print arrives damaged or doesn’t match the preview you approved, we’ll remake it.

06Where do you ship?

Within the United States for now.

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