In the most dynamic scene she is perched at the top of a vertiginous slope, trying not to slide down towards the outstretched arms of a drowning crowd.
And then, in the same gallery, we suddenly reach Akbar's court, with a delicately realistic image of the young soon-to-be emperor out hawking with noblemen, crossing a vertiginous slope face of dust-colored rock; bright color is allotted only to the hunters' clothing and steeds.
On the right was a vertiginous upwards slope; on the left, just … air and, far below it, barely visible in the distance, the outlines of the Swedish village of Are.
The cruelly vertiginous slope below our feet was dimpled with course flags.
The price of "primary inputs to...[the] industrial economy" is falling as never before: "Each time, whether it's a new material, a new etching process, a new chip architecture, or an entirely new dimension such as parallel processing, the learning curve starts again at its most vertiginous slope".
The senior school is perched on a grassy plateau outside Chitral with a stunning view – vertiginous slopes and swaying fields of wheat on one side; the white-capped Terech Mir mountain, soaring to 7,700 metres, on the other.
The newest ride, a cable car called the Ngong Ping 360 (www.hk360.copened opened last fall and carries tourists, Buddhist monks and pilgrims on a soaring 3.5-mile route over sea and vertiginous slopes to a sprawling Buddhist monastery in the mountainous heart of Lantau Island.
NGONG PING 360 The newest ride, a cable car called the Ngong Ping 360 (www.hk360.copened opened last fall and carries tourists, Buddhist monks and pilgrims on a soaring 3.5-mile route over sea and vertiginous slopes to a sprawling Buddhist monastery in the mountainous heart of Lantau Island.
From the moment I heard mention of these stone communities, hidden in a rugged landscape, some clinging to vertiginous slopes, I was intrigued and knew I had to experience them.
On a rare patch of open grass amid the vertiginous slopes of the river Machángara gorge in Quito, Ricardo Buitrón is outlining his dreams for the future of cities. "We have always been proposing a new kind of city – a city for the people; a city whose residents can all have a voice in its planning and organisation".
They hurtle down vertiginous slopes and communicate with each other across ravines without raising their voices.
