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Höjdkarta över Teide och Las Cañadas-kalderan på Teneriffa med tavlans utsnitt markerat
Teide: the last 160 vertical metres need a permit
The cable car takes you to 3,550 metres. From there to the summit you need a permit applied for in advance, and the number of places is tightly capped. On...
Närbild på Etna-reliefen där toppkratern och de mindre kraterkonerna på sluttningarna syns
Etna keeps changing summit: the volcano whose high point moves
Etna's highest point has changed crater twice in three years and risen more than forty metres. On the summit craters, Valle del Bove and how you survey a mountain that...
3D-relief över dalen vid Cortina d'Ampezzo i ekram, med de branta kalkstensmassiven runt dalgången
The Dolomites were a coral reef, and it still shows
The vertical walls around Cortina d'Ampezzo are the remains of Triassic reefs. On the rock called dolomite, the 2009 World Heritage listing and why the shapes are so sharp.
Höjdkarta över Trysilfjellet där den fristående kupolen syns mitt i ett flackare skogslandskap
Trysilfjellet: a lone mountain in the middle of the forest
Norway's largest ski resort does not sit in a valley but on a free-standing dome. On the shape of Trysilfjellet, the figures that differ between sources, and what the topography...
Höjdkarta över fjällen kring Hemavan med tavlans utsnitt markerat och en skalstock
Hemavan: where the Kungsleden trail begins, or ends
Hemavan is the southern end of the Kungsleden trail and the gateway to Sweden's largest nature reserve. On Vindelfjällen, the Syterskalet valley and why the village sits where it does.
3D-relief över Helagsfjället i ekram, där branten och nischen under den syns tydligt
Helags: the glacier that sits furthest south in Sweden
1,797 metres, the highest Swedish summit south of the Arctic Circle, and a glacier in the shadow of the face. On Helagsfjället, the glacier and the walk in from Ljungdalen.
3D-relief över Mont Blanc-massivet i ekram, fotograferad snett från sidan så att glaciärernas former syns
How high is Mont Blanc? It depends which year you ask
4,810 is what the map says, but the summit is surveyed every two years and the figure moves. The rock beneath the snow sits at around 4,792 metres - and...
Höjdkarta över Matterhorn med Zermatt i norr och Cervinia i söder, toppen markerad 4 478 meter
The Matterhorn: why the mountain has exactly four faces
The shape is no accident. Four glaciers ate inward towards the same point from four directions, and the summit rock came from a different continent than the base.
Närbild på Trysil-reliefens yta där sluttningarna kastar skuggor mot ekramens insida
From elevation data to a finished piece: how a place becomes physical
The window, the height scale, the nameplate, the print and the frame. An honest walk through the steps between a grid of height values and a finished piece on the...
Skuggad höjdkarta över Kebnekaisemassivet med täta höjdkurvor, nordpil och skalstock på fem kilometer
How to read contour lines on a mountain map
Contour interval, tightly spaced lines and the V shapes that separate a stream valley from a ridge. A short, concrete guide to how contour lines work on Swedish maps.
3D relief of Åre seen from the side in an oak frame, with the depth of the terrain visible against the black base board
Why the mountain on the wall is taller than the real one
At true scale, Åreskutan becomes two centimetres tall on a 25 centimetre piece. That is why relief maps exaggerate height - and why there is a limit to how much.
Shaded elevation model of Helagsfjället with contour lines, north arrow and scale bar
What is an elevation model? Laser data, point clouds and grids
An elevation model is not an image, it is a table of heights. Here is the difference between DTM and DSM, how Swedish laser data is collected, and why a...