If you haven’t, drop everything and pre-order this!

Also, do I spy @jillpelto.bsky.social art on the cover?! 😍

[...] and clean up the Illustrator file structure so that future updates are easier. You can see the before and after on the carousel.

More on www.montblanclines.com [3/3]

[...] wanting to correct where his glorious (and unrepeated!) 1977 line, Scala di Seta, went exactly.

I also took the opportunity to redraw a number of lines with more accuracy, as well as update the color scheme to be less garish [2/3]

A lot of work goes on behind the scenes at Mont Blanc Lines, adding, updating and correcting lines. For instance, this poster of the north face of Grandes Jorasses hadn't been touched in years until Gordon Smith got in touch with me [1/3]

Still, it was all worth it to capture the magic of the red sandstone, and Sam and Áine's first free ascent of the route Voyagers (25), on Slanghoek, the best kept secret in South African trad climbing. [4/4]

The final hour drive back to Cape Town definitely tested my endurance, but I had been advised not to pull over on the side of the road at night, even for a quick nap. [3/4]

(the highlight of which was a 100m freehanging section on a dynamic rope). And then hiking back out, unsuccessfully trying to beat the sunset. [2/4]

Sam Nightingale climbing on Slanghoek, West Cape, South Africa.

Sam Nightingale climbing on Slanghoek, West Cape, South Africa.

Sam Nightingale climbing on Slanghoek, West Cape, South Africa.

Sam Nightingale climbing on Slanghoek, West Cape, South Africa.

This was one of the hardest single days of shooting in recent memory: a 5 hours hike in, including some hardcore bushwalking and non-trivial routefinding, abseiling in to the cliff with extreme exposure, then an endless jug back up [1/4]

Sunrise over Seoul

Sunrise over Seoul

Sunrise over Seoul from Bhukansan yesterday. Now on my way to China!

Thank you!

All the climbing routes on El Capitan, Yosemite

All the climbing routes on the north face of Grandes Jorasses, France

All the climbing routes on Spitzkoppe, Namibia

All the climbing routes on Cape Raoul, Tasmania

I make climbing map posters from high resolution photographs. It started in Chamonix and now has posters from every continent but Antarctica!

You can download for free or buy posters on www.montblanclines.com

My Life As a Homeless Man in America An extraordinary firsthand account.

What an incredible read: www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Details of snow mushrooms on a high mountain in Peru.

Perú's Cordillera Blanca is famous for its crazy formations. Here, details of mushrooms near the summit of 6,345m Nevado Chopicalqui.

This was shot 15 years ago, before I could even think of making a living from climbing photography. I love revisiting old images and finding some buried gems!

A climber’s hand

A climber’s hand

A climber’s hand

A climber’s hand

Details of hands from Eric Yue on an ascent in the Shegeng Cave, south China.

Sunset above the Li River, China.

Sunset above the Li River, China.

Sunset above the Li River, China.

Sunset above the Li River, China.

A few shots from this evening, just a few hours after arriving in incredible Yangshuo, China. Like nowhere else I have ever been.

Rock that doesn’t fall apart if you look at it wrong would be nice

Let's try this again. And what better way to start than with a pretty sunset above Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. There is probably the comet hiding behind a cloud, too.

Award laurels

Book cover

I couldn't be happier to announce that the English edition of my book, Mont Blanc Lines, has just won the 2023 Mountain Image Award from the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival! I will be at the festival to receive the award and speak about the book on Nov. 2nd.

Good luck getting set up with them. Feel free to message if you need help.

I have been using Gelato for a few years now, very happy with quality and customer service. The whole having a worldwide network to reduce shipping costs and delay is super helpful.

Everest and Lhotse from the air

Aerial view of the southwest face of Everest and the south face of Lhotse, three days ago. Classic view, of course, though perhaps not from such a high vantage point. You can even see tiny Ama Dablam poking its summit out!

Mountain ridges at sunrise and

And the version from the proper camera (Nikon Z9 with 400 f/4.5)

Red sunrise on distant Himalayas mountains, with airport buses in the foreground

Kathmandu delivered this morning, once again. Amusingly, the best view of the day was from the tarmac waiting to board the plane, and not from 20,000ft next to Everest.

Voudrais is a little more forceful, but they are mostly interchangeable

Did Rolling Stone interview about the men-thinking-about-Roman-history-at-least-once-per-day www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

A model of a dinosaur being torn to pieces by smaller, flying dinosaurs.

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Sculpture of a leafless tree with a bunch of boulders in the crooks of the branches, in front of a building.

I'm a geologist and this isn't cute or funny. Rocks only climb trees like this when they're very stressed.

Little snapshot from Western Norway and its infamous Troll Wall, the tallest vertical face in Europe. After non-stop rain and fog since we arrived, finally a photo window opened up!

Mount Robson - North and Emperor Faces climbing routes

Details of the summit

Details of the Emperor Face

So my thing has kind of become drawing climbing lines all over the world. And as a new Canadian resident, Robson’s Emperor Face was at the very top of my list. Here is the result after a February aerial photoshoot!

More on www.montblanclines.com

So I spent a few days with the Isère PGHM (mountain rescue service) and the Airbus H145 D-3 helicopter last week, based in Alpe d’Huez. Here are a few early photos.