12 Gipfel Tour
T1–2Fichtelgebirge, Germany
- 60 kmdistance
- 2000 mascent
- 1 dayduration
from €68
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Hand-modelled maps • high-end prints
Every summit
earned.
Rendered for
your wall.
vertmaps turns real geo-data into premium prints. Every ridge is rendered in 3D to match the exact date, location, and sun position of your adventure.
3routes mapped so far
limitedprints per edition
190g/m²offset paper, matte
70×100centimeters
The collection
Three routes,
printed so far.
Each one walked, GPS-tracked, and rebuilt peak by peak. Edition of 20 — once they're gone, that route is retired until someone walks it again.
Karwendel Höhenweg
T3–4Tyrol, Austria
- 65 kmdistance
- 3540 mascent
- 6 daysduration
from €68
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Stubaier Höhenweg
T3–4 + UIAA ITyrol, Austria
- 82 kmdistance
- 5930 mascent
- 8 daysduration
from €68
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What's next
Vote the next
route into print.
These five are under consideration. The route with the most votes gets modelled, walked-through, and added to the collection — once it crosses 500 votes, it goes into production.
Tour du Mont Blanc
France · Italy · Switzerland
Haute Route (Ski)
Chamonix → Zermatt
GR20
Corsica, France
Munich–Venice
Germany · Austria · Italy
E5
Oberstdorf → Meran
Don't see your route?
Tell us which trail deserves to hang on a wall, and we'll add it to the board.
Suggest a routeOne of one
Or skip the vote — commission your own.
Your own thru-hike, your honeymoon ridge, the summit you keep telling people about. Send the GPX or even just the trailhead and the date, and it gets the same treatment as everything in the collection: real terrain, real route, one print.
Custom work is modelled by hand from scratch, so it runs higher than a collection print — typically from €240, depending on terrain complexity and length.
Start a commission01
Send your GPX track, or the trail name and dates
02
Review a digital proof of the terrain and route line
03
Approve the layout — colourway, labels, elevation profile
04
Printed once, on the same 190g/m² stock as the collection
On the wall
Built to hang in the light, not hide from it.
Every map is laid out for a bright room: a wide cream margin, a quiet data footer, and terrain dark enough to hold its own next to a window. No glossy finish, no glare — just paper and ink doing the work the mountain already did.
How it's made
From GPX file
to grain of paper.
Terrain
Elevation data, rebuilt in 3D
Open elevation data and OpenTopography tiles are sculpted into a real heightmap inside Blender — every ridge and cirque is true geometry, lit and shaded like a physical relief model rather than a flat satellite crop.
Light
The sun is exactly where it was
Each terrain is lit from the sun's real position for that trail's coordinates, date, and time of day — the shadows on your map are the actual shadows that fell across the mountain, not a default studio light.
Route
Traced from the actual GPX
The route line isn't drawn by eye. It's the recorded track from the day the trail was walked, cleaned and plotted in QGIS, then placed back onto the terrain at true scale.
Profile
The climb, charted honestly
Distance, ascent, and descent are pulled straight from the track log — the elevation profile under every map is the real shape of that route's day, not a stylised wave.
Print
Set for paper, not screens
Final layout is built in Affinity and proofed for 190g/m² offset stock — colour, contrast, and line weight all tuned for matte paper under daylight, not a backlit display.
Up close
The detail holds up at arm's length.
Zoom into any print and the terrain doesn't fall apart into pixels — every cliff band and cloud shadow is real geometry. Every hut, junction, and pass is labelled and numbered to match the elevation profile below it, down to the half-kilometre.
Who's behind this
Hi, I'm Christian.
I'm a passionate trail runner and spatial interaction designer who loves maps, tables, and the outdoors. vertmaps is those two passions combined. I hope you like it too — enjoy the prints.