#oneverest

During the performance, Gary Winters attempts to scale the greatest mountain on earth by walking and running back and forth along a straight 30 metre line drawn horizontally across the performance space. By traversing the line 300 times, a difficult task in 1 hour, he covers a distance equivalent to the height of the mountain. During his journey Gary Winters is accompanied by Gregg Whelan reading a text evoking the mountain as both a physical reality and an imaginative location. The end of the performance signals the beginning of a descent to sea level by those present. Audiences are asked to think of each other in 3 days’ time when they’ll have completed their downward, homeward journey.