ABSTRACT
Fort William is known in Gaelic as An Gearasdan: the garrison' in English. Originally established by Oliver Cromwell, after the English Civil War, it was one of three highland forts designed to suppress Jacobite uprisings. That garrison sensibility still lingers, roundhead functionality settled in the foothills of the country's most imaginative landscape. The Creagh Dubh Club was one of several that transformed Scottish mountaineering and produced iconic figures such as John Cunningham whose career eventually took him to Nepal and the Antarctica where he became the first person to climb Mount Jackson. The planting of the Outlandia treehouse in the forests of Glen Nevis delineates a solitary space, suspended in the air like an architectural antenna. One of the projects carried out there for Remote Performances Mark Vernon's collaboration with London Fieldworks: The Sound of Lochaber challenges the notion of the silence of that wilderness.
