thanx
its pretty amazing that this came out of my little compaq pc with only 256mb of memory!
it took 8 hours to render not bad i don't think
the peak was a height field i made in world machine
its about 1.7 km high.i used a redirect shader with three twist and shear shaders attached to it.
i really liked how the texture came out on the peak all it was was an image i put through a default shader i then added a power fractal for the bumps.