02 // Digital Topography

Own the Mountain. Print it Yourself.

Scroll down, pick your mountain, then two steps: Step 1 — Donate Now opens Nepal's official Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund in a new tab, where you actually donate. Step 2 — I've Donated, Get File opens a pre-filled email — attach your receipt and send it, and we'll email your file back within 24–48 hours.

Minimum donation to receive a terrain file: $5 USD or NPR 750 (or greater)

30m resolution NASA SRTM data
STL + OBJ + GLB formats
FDM & resin optimised, watertight
Same donate-and-receive flow on every peak — 100% to relief
Mount Everest terrain model, three-quarter view. Summit ridge running left to right, Khumbu glacier below, on a flat rectangular base.
Live 3D preview — Mount Everest
Output Dimensions

What Size Will It Print?

The terrain geometry scales to any size. These are our tested reference outputs. The footprint is true to the real landform; the height carries vertical exaggeration so the relief reads in the hand — see “Is the height exaggerated?” below.

All files include a flat base plate for stable printing.

A hand holding a finished circular terrain model of Mount Shasta, roughly palm-sized, with an engraved date plate on the rim.
Actual size. The circular format is 122 mm across — about the span of an adult palm. Square is 150 mm. Shown hand-painted with an engraved date plate, both optional.

Not sure how tall that really is next to Everest or K2? Compare peaks side by side →

What Shape Will It Print?

Choose the format that best suits your space and style. Mountains look particularly grand in a circular format—the peak dominates your view and creates a stunning focal point.

Mount Everest in the circular format, mounted on a dark base with the peak name engraved around the rim.
The circular format, shown as a finished physical piece. The mounted base and engraved name are part of the printed and painted product — the digital file is the terrain and its plate.

From File to Gift

You don't need to own a 3D printer. Here's the whole path from download to something you can hand someone — for any mountain in the catalog, not just the ones pictured here.

1
Download the File
Donate, get your STL/OBJ/GLB by email within 24–48 hours.
2
Find a Print Shop
No printer? Most cities have a local 3D-printing service that will print your file for a small fee.
Find a print shop near me →
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Get It Printed
Own a printer, or know someone who does? These files are tested on consumer machines like Prusa and Bambu Lab — the same kind of 3D printer hobbyists run at home, not industrial equipment.
4
Paint or Decorate It
A few coats of acrylic paint bring out the ridgelines. Or leave it raw — either way it's ready for a shelf or a study desk.
5
Give It or Keep It
A summited peak for a climber, a hometown mountain for family — or just something for your own desk.

See the actual printer and a finished piece in hand below ↓

Beyond the Himalaya

Curated Collections

Hand-picked sets across the whole catalog — by elevation, by story, by shape. Buy one mountain from a set, or grab the whole thing at a bundle price.

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Choose Your Peak

The Making

From Data
to Desktop.

Every model starts as raw satellite elevation data from NASA SRTM. That elevation grid is turned into a watertight, printable mesh — the ridges, couloirs and summits are the real landform, not an artist's impression of it.

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Satellite Data
NASA SRTM — one elevation sample every 30m of real terrain
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Mesh Processing
Elevation grid resampled and meshed to your printer's own resolution
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Ready to Print
STL + OBJ + GLB — any FDM or resin printer
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In the Workshop

Not renders. The actual printer.

Every mountain on this page is printed and finished by hand in Kathmandu, on the machines below. Nothing here is outsourced and nothing is drop-shipped.

A terrain model part-printed in white PLA on the heated bed of an Original Prusa i3 printer.
PrintingA terrain coming off the bed in white PLA, before any finishing.
A Swayambhu stupa model printing on an Original Prusa i3, with filament spools mounted above.
The BenchA Swayambhu stupa on the same machine — the Prusa i3 that prints the catalogue.
A hand holding a finished, hand-painted circular Mount Shasta model with an engraved date plate.
FinishedPrinted, hand-painted and engraved with a summit date — a real commission, in hand.
Configure Your Order

Order Any Mountain

Select a mountain and print size. Available files link straight to download — coming-soon peaks send a request so we can notify you the moment they're ready.

01 — Choose Your Mountain
02 — Choose Your Print Size
Add-On — Paused for Flood Relief, back Nov 1
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Minimum Donation
$5 / NPR 750+
Step 1 — Donate Now at pmdrf.nchl.com.np →
Before You Buy

The Boring, Important Part

Digital files — flood relief campaign

You get STL, OBJ and GLB for the peak you pick, at the print size shown on the card. Through October 31, every file works the same way: Step 1, donate whatever you can directly to Nepal's official Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund (minimum $5 / NPR 750). Step 2, email us your receipt — we send the files by hand, usually within 24–48 hours. We never see or touch your payment; it goes straight to the fund. Nothing is shipped.

Files can't be returned once we've sent them — we have no way to take a file back. If you're unsure whether a peak will print the way you want, ask us first and we'll tell you straight.

Your licence

Personal use: print it as often as you like, and give printed pieces as gifts. Selling printed copies needs our Commercial Licence ($149/mountain). Reselling or sharing the file itself is not permitted under any of our licences.

Physical pieces — paused

Hand-painted terrains and lamps are paused through October 31 so we can focus entirely on relief; they reopen November 1. Normally: printed and hand-finished in Kathmandu, Nepal, and shipped worldwide, with cost and transit time confirmed in writing before you pay.

If it arrives damaged

These are fine-ridged objects travelling a long way, and occasionally one doesn't survive the trip. Email us within 7 days of delivery with photos of the piece and its packaging and we'll replace it. You don't pay anything to have it put right.

Vertical exaggeration

The footprint is true to the real landform; the height is scaled to give roughly 50 mm of relief on every peak, because that is what reads well in the hand. The factor differs per mountain, so heights are not comparable between two models. Want a true-to-scale export instead? Ask and we'll make one.

Something not answered here? Email us before you order — we'd rather answer it than have you guess.

Questions

What You Need to Know

An STL (Standard Triangle Language) file is the universal format for 3D printing. It contains the complete 3D geometry of the mountain. You open it in any slicer software (Bambu Studio, Cura, PrusaSlicer) and print it on any FDM or resin printer.
Our files are optimized for FDM printers (Bambu Lab, Prusa, Ender series) at 150-300mm print size. They also work beautifully on resin printers for ultra-fine detail. We include recommended print settings in our Print Settings Guide PDF.
We source 30-metre resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data from NASA SRTM, so one elevation sample covers each 30 m of real ground. The landform is real: the ridgelines, valleys and summits are measured, not drawn.

Being straight about the limits: 30 m DEMs carry a vertical error of roughly 6–15 m depending on terrain and slope, and features narrower than about 30 m (a single cornice, a crevasse, a fixed line) are below what the data can see. These are geologically faithful terrain models, not survey instruments — don't route a climb off one.
Yes. Every model carries vertical exaggeration: the footprint is true to the real landform, but the height is scaled to give roughly 50 mm of relief whatever the peak. Nepal's 8,000 m giants and a volcano or a coastal hill elsewhere differ so much in real relief that one shared scale would leave most of the catalogue almost flat — and 50 mm is what we've found actually reads well in the hand and on a desk.

The one thing to know: because the factor differs per peak, heights aren't comparable between two models. Need a true-to-scale export instead? Email us and we'll generate one.
During the flood relief campaign (through October 31), every peak works the same way — we don't run a checkout of our own at all:

1. Click Step 1 — Donate Now — opens Nepal's official pmdrf.nchl.com.np in a new tab. Donate there (or whatever you can) — this is a real, separate site, not part of ours.

2. Click Step 2 — I've Donated, Get File — opens a pre-filled email. Attach or paste your donation receipt/confirmation and send it.

3. We send the files — usually within 24–48 hours, by return email. We never receive or handle your payment at any point; it goes straight to the fund.
Buying a file gets you a personal-use licence: print it as many times as you like for yourself, and give printed pieces away as gifts.

Selling physical prints made from our files requires our Commercial Licence ($149/mountain) — email us and we'll set it up. Reselling, redistributing or publicly sharing the STL/OBJ/GLB file itself is not permitted under any of our licences; the file stays with you.
Everything physical is printed and hand-finished in Kathmandu, Nepal, and ships worldwide. Shipping cost and transit time depend on destination, so we confirm both in writing before you pay.

Hand-painted pieces are made to order — allow roughly 4 weeks for printing, painting, boxing and dispatch — and are non-refundable once production begins. Digital files are unaffected by any of this and are not shipped.
Damaged in transit: email us within 7 days of delivery with photos of the piece and its packaging and we will replace it. You pay nothing — not for the replacement and not for shipping it. These are fine-ridged objects crossing the world, and if one breaks on the way that is ours to put right, not yours.

Lamp warranty: every Luminous Peak is covered for one year from delivery against faults in the LED unit, wiring and power supply. Shipping costs for warranty work are paid by the customer.

Hand-painted pieces are made to order and non-refundable once production begins — though that is separate from the damage cover above, which applies to every physical order.

Digital files cannot be returned once sent — there is no way to take a file back. Nothing above applies to them: a download cannot arrive damaged. If you are unsure whether a peak will print the way you want, ask before you buy and we will tell you straight.
We accept custom terrain commissions. Send us coordinates or a mountain name and we will generate a custom model. Contact us with your request — turnaround is typically 3-5 business days.