All Images And Videos from Peter Atwood

All mountains measured from sea level. Imagery from Natural Earth portal by ESRI. Elevation Data from SRTM dataset. Models made and rendered in Blender

The goal with this project was to come up with a way to compare a selection of mountains both in terms of form and scale. I especially wanted to showcase the difference between the height of a mountain (measured from sea level) and it’s prominence (how much it rises above the surrounding terrain).

Tim Konrad, founder of Unofficial Networks, is a skier with over 20 years in the ski industry. Starting the blog in 2006 from Lake Tahoe with his brother John, the website has grown into one of the world’s...