The New Jersey state champions, Mike Myers of Eastern High School and Erin Donohue of Haddonfield High, placed 14th and 42nd.
"In Southern California, our gods are all gods of high places".
Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind, became possessed by the fear and wonder of high places as a twelve-year-old child.
He is a man of high places, both as an mountaineer and as an accountant – an activity you may regard as a little less glamorous.
Among the more common examples are acrophobia, fear of high places; claustrophobia, fear of closed places; nyctophobia, fear of the dark; ochlophobia, fear of crowds; xenophobia, fear of strangers; and zoophobia, fear of animals.
Great Skellig (also known as Skellig Michael in honour of the saint of high places) was, between the 6th and the 12th centuries, home to an anchorite community of monks.
Acrophobia, a classic word game from the early days of the Internet, is undergoing a Web revival, and it has nothing to do with a fear of high places.
When I was last in Ireland, in 1939, I kissed the Blarney Stone, my wife, who was pregnant kissed the Stone, and my brother who has a weak heart and a fear of high places, also kissed the Blarney Stone.
For centuries, Baal had been known as Baal-alzabul, which means the Lord of High Place.
As a non-believer who appreciates the power of myths and the spiritual resonance of high places, I respect the beliefs of those who approach the Himalayas out of reverence and religious devotion.
The etymology of Arran is no more clear—Haswell-Smith (2004) offers a Brythonic derivation and a meaning of "high place" although Watson (1926) suggests it may be pre-Celtic.
