They weren't meant for the vertical world of rock climbing.
High in the giddy, vertical world of the Anniviers valley, Saint-Luc offers quintessential Swiss singletrack set against seriously stunning backdrops.
Business -- especially a business dominated by one person -- is a vertical world, where the boss's wishes lead quickly to results.
"I am fond of the idea that nonclimbers could experience the thrill of the vertical world so easily on a via ferrata and then maybe pursue our wonderful sport as a result," he said.
Back in the early days, women were left out of books such as, "The Vertical World of Yosemite" by Galen Rowell.
The old "vertical world" of press associations, where consultants and speakers tell an audience of editors what to do and how to do it, is over, Pecquerie concluded.
Hill has publicized climbing by appearing on television shows and documentaries and writing an autobiography, Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World.
In 2002, Hill collaboratively wrote an autobiography, Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World, with mountaineer and writer Greg Child, published by W.W. Norton & Company.
The potential shift from an East-West-dominated socioeconomic system, as found in today's horizontal world, to a more North-South-bound framework, as our version of the vertical world, may not be the only direction, but may be important to consider when assessing the global macro picture in search of attractive investment opportunities.
Also, don't be discouraged by the Swiss senior citizens racing past you on the trails; after all, they live in a vertical world and have adapted to it (on one of my past trips, my guide must have been 75 years old if he was a day, and I could barely keep up with him. I dismissed him after the second day rather than continue the race).
