The mountains elevation here varies upto 3963 m and the slopes often being very precipitous while the valleys are deep (Singh and Haigh 1995).
The wind can get up, dogs can bark and pester, but the trail itself is gentle, undulating, well-marked and there are very few precipitous sections - Reddyshore Scout on the edge of Shore Moor, near Littleborough, is the exception, but it's still not the Andes.
But then as soon as businesses begin to realize what is happening, it can be a very precipitous reaction.
"And it has been a very precipitous drop from there".
And here, at the bottom of the Isle of Harris's unforgiving, precipitous Coffin Road, it was very much a case of back in at the steep end.
"If it were to be a precipitous withdrawal, that could be very dangerous," he added, "but it's clear that's not the direction in which this is trending".
"If you look at the fact that this is going to be a country that is going to default on its debt, and two years before it was still single A, that is a very, very precipitous fall," conceded Pierre Cailleteau, Moody's head of sovereign debt ratings until he left in spring 2010.
The change in the company's assessment is "a very, very precipitous fall," Pierre Cailleteau, recently the head of sovereign debt ratings at Moody's, told The Times.
Instead, Schilling seems to have been overcome by a modern version of Edgar Allan Poe's Imp of the Perverse, the compulsion to do something that one knows is wrong for the very precipitous thrill of doing it.
