The highlands, except on their western and southwestern flanks, are sharply defined by a series of escarpments, the most spectacular being the so-called World's End, a near-vertical precipice of about 4,000 feet.
A number of vertical caves and precipices are found in the area around the village of Papingo, which lies near Gamila and Astraka peaks.
There was a gentle, rocky valley, with no human trace, and beyond it a terrifying precipice, not vertical, no, but of broken rock and gullies of crumbling earth — one of those places no one ever wants to go because you'll break your neck without glory or satisfaction.
There was a gentle, rocky valley, with no human trace, and beyond it a terrifying precipice, not vertical, no, but of broken rock and gullies of crumbling earth one of those places no one ever wants to go because you'll break your neck without glory or satisfaction.
After wriggling on your back over a precipice, you shoot down a nearly vertical 60-foot-long slide, seemingly in free fall, before abruptly going horizontal into an acrylic tube that slices through a shark-infested tank.
Breathe!" pierced the tropical air and echoed off the limestone precipice around Dean's Blue Hole, a vertical cavern plunging 660 feet, a cobalt blue pool of seawater surrounded by crystal-clear shallows and white sand.
Like all floorless dive coasters, Valravn will dangle riders over a precipice for a few heart-pounding seconds before the train descends straight down a vertical drop.
There are scenes in Columbia's coming thriller "Vertical Limit" -- many, many scenes, in fact -- showing struggling mountain-climbers clinging from vertiginous precipices or plummeting into the void.
