Nearly two decades of redevelopment later, Pierce Brosnan's Bond took a tour of the area by speedboat in 1999's The World Is Not Enough; five years on, and a pre-007 Daniel Craig was dangled off an unfinished 1 West India Quay in Layer Cake, all the better to add vertiginous texture to the story, in which the property-dealing and investment world intersected with the drugs trade.
Both involve hazardous terrain to negotiate, above vertiginous falls to waves pounding on the rocks below.
It occurs to me that today it takes a whole afternoon on vertiginous trails to accomplish the reverse: to enter an environment without human imports.
MARKET OVERVIEW From 2005 to 2007, housing prices in Northern Ireland rose to vertiginous heights, only to be slashed by about 40 percent in the ensuing real estate crisis, according to a report by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, the public housing authority.
I got my bearings from the castle's tower, which is open to anyone willing to climb four flights and a vertiginous ladder to the top, 35m above the village.
It is a vertiginous thing to have so much freedom — to be always self-skeptical, always testing the reasons for your beliefs, always prepared to abandon them for something better.
Add environmentalists and hunters, as well as the crew of a helicopter called in to rescue one poorly Lopez-fan from the vertiginous amphitheatre, to the long list of locals who bristle at the name of Mortier.Not all festival offerings are as strenuous as that, but to get the most out of Salzburg these days you have to work hard and make some tough choices.
'We smuggled coffee from behind Mabugu ridge down to the Kenyan border,' says Nimrod Wambette, our guide on the vertiginous hike to the old smuggler's trail.
There are also plans to put in lifts which will save visitors slogging up the vertiginous staircase to the walkway across the top – which is currently a popular spot for bungee jumping, as well as giving spectacular views out to the North Sea and up over the Cleveland Hills.
By David Denby Preston Sturges's second film as a director, "Christmas in July 194040), screening Nov. 26 at Walter Reade, is a vertiginous rags-to-riches story.
