[remus]

I don't really know where's best to put this, but I stumbled on Alex Bussie's site where he's made lots of very beautiful topos available for free for personal use https://www.montblanclines.com/pages/downloads

Some absolute stunners in there: El Cap, Matterhorn, Troll Wall (the topo, the wall...not so much), Old Man of Hoy, Half Dome etc.

[highrepute]

Glorious. I tried to do this with Malham and Kilnsey once but was let down by skill and dedication. chapeau to this person

[Duncan campbell]

Wow! Beautiful things!!! 

Will start dropping hints…

[jwi]

nice! no price for guessing which topo I bought* as a poster


*(tried to buy... my bank will not let me...)

[SA Chris]

Spitzkop obviously!

Must be the most obscure one there. Was always one of my dream destinations when I lived down there, but never made it.

[Teaboy]

nice! no price for guessing which topo I bought* as a poster

I can picture you now, sat in your home office, occasionally glancing up from your desk at the poster, thinking “One day I will get to climb Embankment Route 2”

[T_B]

Go on then, how many of the topos have you done a route/s on?

18 for me.

I actually really love the one of The Needles. Such an incredible place to climb.

[Potash]

I have the Needles one hung on my wall tempting me to book flights.....

[SA Chris]

Go on then, how many of the topos have you done a route/s on?

How many times can I count Mt Blanc?

[jwi]

Go on then, how many of the topos have you done a route/s on?

18 for me.

I actually really love the one of The Needles. Such an incredible place to climb.

Impressive!

But I do have 25 routes on one of the topos.

[remus]

Go on then, how many of the topos have you done a route/s on?

18 for me.

I actually really love the one of The Needles. Such an incredible place to climb.

A measly 9 for me, including generously counting one topo that appears twice. Hamstrung by a lack of interest in alpinism and having climbed very little outside of europe.

[T_B]

Go on then, how many of the topos have you done a route/s on?

18 for me.

I actually really love the one of The Needles. Such an incredible place to climb.

Impressive!

But I do have 25 routes on one of the topos.

Checked and it’s actually 17. I also cheated in that two routes I didn’t top out  .

I suspect your topo with 25 isn’t on my list if it’s Paroi de l’Escales.

[duncan]

I’ve had a close look at the El Cap. one. Incredible detail, including some total obscurities.

I’ve climbed routes on 20, without double-counting one route that appears in both the 6 north faces and the Tre Cima posters or another that features in two different views of The Old Man of Hoy.

I’m surprised as I’ve never been to Chamonix and don’t mountaineer. Evidently I am a well-travelled climbing snob. I have the full Yosemite set of course. jwi can rest easy as I’m only up to 13 on l'Escalès, probably the 13 easiest, and that won’t increase by many now.

[El Mocho]

They are great.

Think I'm on 25 without any double counting... An additional 3 failures and 1 in descent.

[T_B]

I’m back on 16 + 2 failures. Can’t count.

Anyone got an FA on there ( )

Another quiz question. I can see two routes with the same names, on two different topos. What are they? (not S Face of…)

[Dac]

A rather meagre 13 for me, (10 in the Alps, 2 Millstones and a Higgar).

As it’s not been mentioned yet on this thread it seems it falls to me to make the obvious recommendation of Alex’s excellent book Mont Blanc Lines, containing all the Mont Blanc massif topos linked to above, plus many more, and some fine words and pictures.

I’ve not been to the Alps for over a decade now, but since getting a copy as a gift I’ve spent many an hour poring over its pages.

[jwi]

I’m surprised as I’ve never been to Chamonix and don’t mountaineer.

As my better half has done an increadible amount of classic routes up to low sevens around Chamonix I will likely never do any of them.

[Neil F]

Go on then, how many of the topos have you done a route/s on?

18 for me.

A measly 4 

Anyone got an FA on there ( )

I've got 3, I think   

[T_B]

That’s surprising Neil (4).

Keeping-it-Local Hero!

[Nails]

17 topos with at least one route on for me. I'm quite surprised I have so many. Probably about half of them are mountaineering routes and I pretty much hated every minute of them. Glad I stopped doing that 

[Lopez]

Go on then, how many of the topos have you done a route/s on?

41 without double counting routes

(Kind of helps Chamonix is over-represented)

Amazing bit of work. A lof of time will be wasted poring over them

[northern yob]

I’ve got 24 that I’ve climbed on (couple of failures) 2 first ascents both in Yosemite…. The Yosemite ones are super detailed, it’s even got our pitch names on it.

[cheque]

I’ve only climbed on 5 of them.

Reminds me that the autumn before last I put a fair bit of work into shooting a huge Panorama of Froggatt, Curbar and Baslow Edges but didn’t stump up the £186 required for the software to create a version that didn’t have a “free trial version” watermark all over it before I forgot all about it. It was pretty epic iirc and I should buy that software.

[SA Chris]

I though you could do it with photoshop?

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/using/create-panoramic-images-photomerge.html

If you don't have the full version, I do, can happily have a go.

[SA Chris]

I think I have 12 (or possibly 13 it gets hazy), again helped by summers in Cham in my youth. Embarrassingly I can't claim either of the Scottish ones.

[stone]

How many times can I count Mt Blanc?

That got me dredging my distant memory from when I used to love Mt Blanc 
For me I think it's:
Gouter ridge up and down
Gouter ridge then traverse to midi
via Mt Maudit Kuffner ridge
Brenva spur
Brenva spur again
Route Major
Innominata ridge
Central Pillar of Freney

[jwi]

I’ve only climbed on 5 of them.

Reminds me that the autumn before last I put a fair bit of work into shooting a huge Panorama of Froggatt, Curbar and Baslow Edges but didn’t stump up the £186 required for the software to create a version that didn’t have a “free trial version” watermark all over it before I forgot all about it. It was pretty epic iirc and I should buy that software.

I'm sure there are excellent astrophotography software packages for stitching. I did some big composites in Hugin a decade ago. It took some time to learn but worked fine (I shot with a lens having almost perfectly flat field, so it should not be very computational expensive anyway).

[petejh]

Very cool!

Without double counting, 21 for me. Haven't made it to Hoy or Kalymnos yet!

Surprised to see the Three Sisters on there, it was my garden backdrop for a few years.

[thomas røllins]

A disappointing 16 15 on a strictly accounted basis.

However, were some trees removed, my current home would be visible in one of these images. Worth a bonus point?