The Styles
Eight Styles, One Mountain
Everest in each of them. Open any one to read it up close, then pick yours in the studio and every choice redraws.
Open the large editionRelief
The ridges and faces standing out the way they do in the last light of the day.
Alpenglow • First Light • Noon • Night
Open the large editionOblique
The mountain standing up as you saw it on the walk in, steeper than life, the way you remember it.
Morning • Night
Open the large editionRoute
Like the topo in your guidebook: every path dashed by how hard it goes, the glaciers blue, the rock hatched.
Topo • Slate
Open the large editionContour
Nothing but contour lines, crowding together wherever the climbing got steep.
Paper • Zenith
Open the large editionSurvey
Cliffs, ridges and contours in black ink, the ice left white, like the sheet pinned up at the hut.
Ink • Blueprint
Open the large editionLinocut
Cut like a block print: the dark faces one solid ink, and your route the second.
Ink on Snow • Snow on Zenith
Open the large editionGilt
Gold on black or navy, with a fine gold border: the mountain at night.
Black & Gold • Navy & Gold
Open the large editionWatercolour
Layered washes, with the cold blue shadow that sits on every north face.
Glacier • Dusk
Fourteen Tones
Your route prints in one tone. Each style offers only the tones you can still follow from across a room, and on the darkest grounds that leaves fewer than eight; the table shows which. How a tone is chosen.
| Style | Ground | Tones offered | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Route | Topo | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Route | Slate | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Contour | Paper | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Contour | Zenith | VermilionSaffronGoldTealLavenderPink | 6 of 14 |
| Survey | Ink | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Survey | Blueprint | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |
| Linocut | Ink on Snow | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Linocut | Snow on Zenith | VermilionSaffronGoldTealLavenderPink | 6 of 14 |
| Gilt | Black & Gold | VermilionSaffronGoldTealLavenderPink | 6 of 14 |
| Gilt | Navy & Gold | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |
| Watercolour | Glacier | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Watercolour | Dusk | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Relief | Alpenglow | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Relief | First Light | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Relief | Noon | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Relief | Night | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |
| Oblique | Morning | Blood RedOxbloodVermilionForestTealCobaltNavyVioletPinkCharcoalBlack | 11 of 14 |
| Oblique | Night | VermilionSaffronGoldLavenderPink | 5 of 14 |