Abbey National is to be questioned over its role in the £5bn precipice bond scandal.
However, with the aid of an accomplice, Caravaggio did escape, evading the castle guard, scaling the ramparts, and lowering himself down a sheer 200-foot (61-metre) precipice and into a boat awaiting him below.
Land Rover brought its own waterfall and poured 53,000 gallons an hour over an 18-foot precipice to demonstrate its ability to "go anywhere".
Legend has it that Gonsalus leapt off a 100-foot precipice into a thicket of hemlock trees, and not only escaped but lived to tell about it for 60 more years.
At H&H, New York's flagship bagel shop, the price has teetered at the 95-cent precipice for almost two years, gradually rising from 15 cents (as best as H&H employees can recall) when the shop opened in 1972.
I clamored onto the ridge and traversed below the snow cornices overhanging the 10,000-foot precipice on Aconcaguas South Face.
But now imagine that you are walking along a narrow path with a 10,000 foot precipice on either side.
At 47 on the precipice of 48, Janeane Garofalo is one of the baby baby boomers.
"As part of our committee's remit to clean up financial services and restore confidence, FSA chief executive John Tiner told us the FSA was looking at less than 10 firms over precipice bond mis-selling.
We live on a mountain precipice 500 feet above sea level.
