Called bouldering – after the boulders it is practised on – it's become a sport in its own right and one in which one of the two Dawn Wall climbers, Kevin Jorgeson, excels.
Britain excels in technological innovation, but has relatively few world-beating hi-tech companies.
THERE IS A global trade at which Britain excels.
Its joint leader, Oskar Lafontaine, once finance minister under Mr Schröder, excels as a simplifier.
"Good sir, please help me save my family fortune from rapacious government officials... ...... Internet fraud is far from unique to Nigeria but the west African nation excels at these particular swindles, which predate the internet but have been transformed by it.
IF THERE is one thing Congress excels at, it is finishing its tasks late and over budget.
Graphic design, advertising, film production, even aerospace: in such industries, in which Britain excels, India is rising, and as the irreversible logic of globalisation unfolds, so global competition will increase.
Israel excels at creating start-ups, but is less good at turning them into big companies.
In the 1980s, Société Générale was a pioneer in the development of sophisticated equity derivatives, based on the complex mathematics in which the elite French education system excels.
This Asian market has made Mr Sandel a god in the otherwise empty pantheon of bestselling academics.But it is on the stage that he excels.
Online services have always been a bit of an afterthought to what the company excels at: pricey but highly innovative bundles of hardware and software, of which the iPhone is only the latest example.
