IV
The Monarch
Mont Blanc Massif
4,392 m
Living summit atlas
the mountain,mapped.
A living atlas of the world's alpine peaks — routes, skills, and field notes from climbers on the wall — so you can plan, train, and summit something bigger.
● 4,392 m · The Monarch, summit
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From armchair to summit
Three steps. No guide required — well, almost.
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Pick a peak
Browse the atlas by difficulty, region, or season. Every entry has a real route, real grades, and a real weather window.
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Learn the skill
Crampons, rope work, avalanche awareness, altitude. Each skill has a field-tested writeup and a practice drill.
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Log the summit
Join the club, track your ascents, and see your name on the summit register.
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Everything between you and the top
The whole mountain, catalogued.
Peak atlas
Every summit with a route, a grade, and a weather window — 400 peaks and counting.
Grade decoder
Rock, ice, and commitment grades, explained for people who never want to be sandbagged.
Skills library
Field-tested technique, from self-arrest to crevasse rescue, with drills.
Snow & conditions
Live snowpack and condition reports, updated by the climbers who were just up there.
The club
A real community of guides and amateurs, sharing beta and summit logs.
Route finder
Search by region, grade, or season and get the exact line to the top.
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The high country, up close
Shot where the air gets thin.
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The profile
One route, drawn to scale.
This is The Monarch's SE ridge — 1,100 metres of gain, drawn as an elevation profile. Every camp, crux, and summit is where the line says it is.
profileThe Monarch · SE ridge · IV
1,100 m gain
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The slow climb
One pitch, one frame at a time.
the ridge line · a still from the field
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Four summits
The atlas, in miniature.
III+
Grey Fang
Teton Range
3,988 m
II
Skyline Ridge
Sierra Crest
4,117 m
V
The Cathedral
Karakoram
4,550 m
From the desk of Elias Vandeberg
Most maps show you where a mountain is. We wanted to show you how to get up it.
I started the atlas after a climb that went wrong on a peak everyone said was "easy" — because the beta we had was ten years out of date and written by someone who'd never actually been up it.
What I learned: a grade is a promise someone else made. A route is a story, told by the people who climbed it, in the order they climbed it. There's a world between them, and that's where alpine lives.
So here's the invitation: pick a peak you've never heard of. Read the route. Then go stand on it — and add your own line to the log.
Elias VandebergFounder, ALPINE
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By the numbers
Live, from our backend.
84,212
logged ascents
402
peaks catalogued
18.6k
club members
51.2M
vertical metres
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From the summit log
People who actually stood on top.
★★★★★
"The grade decoder alone is worth it. I stopped getting sandbagged on my first season."
June P.Trad climber
★★★★★
"I planned my whole trip to the Tetons off this site. Every route was exactly as written."
Marcus T.Weekend alpinist
★★★★★
"The snowpack reports are the most current I've found anywhere. It's the first tab I open."
Sofia A.Ski mountaineer
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The roadmap
Where we're climbing next.
Q3 2026
Peak atlas + skills library + the club, live in beta.
Q4 2026
Live condition reports, crowdsourced from the summit log.
Q1 2027
Route-finder with GPS tracks you can load straight to your watch.
Q2 2027
Expedition matchmaking — find a rope partner for the big one.
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Questions, answered.
Do I need to be a climber to use this?+
No. The atlas is written for anyone who wants to stand on a mountain — the skills library starts from zero.
Is the route beta real?+
Yes. Every route is submitted by a climber who climbed it, and dated. Stale beta gets flagged.
How do the grades work?+
Two numbers: a rock grade for the hardest move, and a Roman numeral for overall commitment. We decode both.
Is it free?+
Yes — the atlas, skills library, and club are free during beta and stay free after launch.
Do you track my location?+
Only if you log an ascent and choose to share it. We never track you in the backcountry.
Can I contribute a route?+
Yes. Any club member can submit a route with photos and grades. A guide reviews it before it goes live.
The mountain is already there.
the mountain, mapped.