Mont Blanc Lines climbing posters

Still in China, now in Bai He, the major climbing spot near Beijing, with endless granite formations :

Links: https://www.montblanclines.com/products/perfect-feeling

https://www.montblanclines.com/products/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind

A pretty insane place at the edge of the world: Cape Raoul in Tasmania, with its dolerite pillars. The crux is most definitely the approach!

And the other side:

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Do you have plans to do any more posters for the Black Canyon of the Gunnison?

sandrock wrote:

Do you have plans to do any more posters for the Black Canyon of the Gunnison?

I had plans to do North Chasm View as well, but am not too happy with the photo I got of it, so might wait until I can go back and get a better shot.

The highest mountain in Peru (and 4th highest in South America), with massive rock and ice faces and crazy objective danger:

Poster and route list: https://www.montblanclines.com/products/nevado-huascaran-northeast-faces

https://www.montblanclines.com/products/nevado-huascaran-sur-east-face

After a little hiatus working on various other projects, as well as making slow progress on the endless cliffs of Arapiles, here is one of the most spectacular peaks of the Canadian Rockies, made infamous 6 years ago with the Auer/Lama/Roskelley tragedy:

Home to the most famous climb in the UK (Cenotaph Corner), and everything from gardening expeditions to desperately run out slabs: Dinas y Gromlech, in Llanberis Pass, North Wales.

The paradise of hard mixed climbing in New Zealand, right next to Aoraki itself:

The most terrifyingly adventurous climbing in the UK, perhaps Europe: Gogarth in North Wales. Here, the southern part of it with its gargoyles and crumbling rock.

Poster and route list: https://www.montblanclines.com/products/gogarth-south-stack

Black Knight wrote:

Hi Alex,

Any interest in doing a poster for the crags of Spain, like Siurana or Margalef?

A panorama taken from the village, looking down to La Siuranella all the way to El Pati or even further, would be amazing. Just throwing out a suggestion if you ever make it over there

Thanks for suggestions, I always appreciate it and write it all down for future reference. I have only been to Siurana once, back in 2016 (and it poured 95% of the time!). In general, sport climbing is not my highest priority as the posters tend to be a little more boring, just a bunch of parallel straight lines going up (see Arhi in Kalymnos, for instance: https://www.montblanclines.com/products/kalymnos-arhi), but a trip to southern France and Catalonia is long overdue. I tried to do Céüse a few years ago but didn't get the right light/angle.

Beside Siurana and Margalef, are there other crags in that region that would lend themselves to good posters? Density of routes is usually the most important criteria :)

Thanks for the suggestions and for digging out that video. I didn't get to fly my drone on my last trip, and didn't realize the climbing was right under the village. I agree that would make a truly spectacular poster!

Right now, the pipeline has Arapiles all done (but waiting for things to settle down with access issues before releasing), Fisher Towers (publishing in the next few days), 2x Meteora coming soon, then working on Gogarth (Wen Zawn and Main Face), more Aoraki/Tasman, Mizugaki in Japan and Insu-Bong in South Korea.

Another mythical spot, the terrifying conglomerate towers of Meteora:

https://www.montblanclines.com/products/meteora-northeast-faces

https://www.montblanclines.com/products/meteora-west-faces

We need to label this thread as NSFW, because this is porn

Chris C wrote:

We need to label this thread as NSFW, because this is porn

Probably not the worst thing if I need to start an OnlyFans, given how things seem to be going in the adventure photography space these days...

Alex Buisse wrote:

Thanks for suggestions, I always appreciate it and write it all down for future reference. I have only been to Siurana once, back in 2016 (and it poured 95% of the time!). In general, sport climbing is not my highest priority as the posters tend to be a little more boring, just a bunch of parallel straight lines going up (see Arhi in Kalymnos, for instance: https://www.montblanclines.com/products/kalymnos-arhi), but a trip to southern France and Catalonia is long overdue. I tried to do Céüse a few years ago but didn't get the right light/angle.

Beside Siurana and Margalef, are there other crags in that region that would lend themselves to good posters? Density of routes is usually the most important criteria :)

La Pedriza, just north of Madrid, is the Tuolumne Meadows of Spain. The place has history!

Gogarth again, this time with the home of Dream of White Horses and its outrageous sea cliffs:

Poster and route list: https://www.montblanclines.com/products/gogarth-wen-zawn

Slightly less epic, but really fun if you are in the area, Ti Point, an hour north of Auckland:

Not a new face, but I was never happy with the photo from the first version. Two summers ago, while doing a story on the mountain rescue unit, I managed to get a much better angle of the face from the helicopter. Some of the very best climbing in the Alps.

Here is a classic one, and probably the worst rock I have ever drawn lines on. I also vividly remember waiting many hours at the belay before the corkscrew summit and getting to the top of Ancient Art well after nightfall. That was 12 years ago, and I would be surprised if crowds had gotten better since...

 Poster and route list: https://www.montblanclines.com/products/fisher-towers