"Flooding, snow, high winds, avalanche risk, slips and rock falls can all occur at any time of the year," says Christine Officer, program manager at the DOC office in Te Anau (a two-hour bus ride from Queenstown), which manages the Milford Track.
Does creative alchemy risk slipping into creative compromise?
"To fight an extremist behavior, we risk slipping toward a totalitarian society," he said.
For a contemporary Chinese artist to employ such a motif is to risk slipping into exoticism and kitsch, and some critics have accused Cai of these lapses.
Instead, the comfort zone we risk slipping into is the New Labour comfort zone that says minimal change and more of the same is the way to go.
Around October 20, Lenin, in disguise and at considerable personal risk, slipped into Petrograd and attended a secret meeting of the Bolshevik Central Committee held on the evening of October 23.
The latest incident, disclosed in letters to the editor and a correction in the journal on Wednesday, involves a study showing that pregnant women who stop taking antidepressants risk slipping back into depression.
Such people have only a tenuous hold on middle-class status and risk slipping backwards.A third reason for worry, argues Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institution, is that the middle classes might "misinterpret the recession".
This, says Abdel Bari Atwan, who edits the Arabic daily al-Quds al-Arabi in London, reflects Gulf rulers' anxieties about a regional domino effect.All these milder monarchies now risk slipping into the habits of the Gulf's worst human-rights offenders, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
At first it was just the heels flapping around, but before too long, both soles fell off! Rather than risk slipping and falling (note to self, next time, bring a hiking stick) and since my feet were rapidly getting wet, I had to turn back.
"Women should be equal partners in the future of Iraq, but their rights risk slipping away without positive action to protect them," said UNICEF Representative for Iraq, Roger Wright.
