An open air concert was held on an island mountain at the weekend – despite guests having to trek for two hours to enjoy the show.
The Cuillin on the Isle of Skye provided the backdrop to the spectacular sold out open-air concert.
Audiences, who paid £50-a-ticket, faced a long walk from Glen Brittle beach to the corrie where the hour-long performance unfolded.
The “Concert in a Coire” event, which had a capacity of 75, was staged in near-darkness.
Just two musicians, violinist George Smith and cellist Duncan Strachan, joined forces with sound engineer Sam Annand to stage the site-specific performance in the natural “amphitheatre” of Coire Lagan.
However, a 30-strong team of mountain guides and volunteers worked on the concert, which is believed to be the first event of its type to be staged in the Cuillin.
It featured specially created music and sound effects inspired by the corrie, which boasts a tiny loch surrounded by gigantic rock peaks, Skye’s traditional music heritage and ancient Gaelic song.
Field recordings of water, wind and rock captured in the area were deployed in the show, which also featured lighting effects to transform the corrie as the natural light faded from the day.
Each audience member was given a head torch for the walk back down the mountain path from Coire Lagan to Glen Brittle.
Skye-born Danny MacAskill – who famously logged nearly 50 million views on You Tube with riding the Cuillin Ridge – rode on his bike to the event.
The concert was staged 12 years on from arts organisations NVA’s acclaimed sound and light show The Storr, which brought 6,500 people onto the Old Man of Storr at Trotternish, on Skye.