Sai Sha Road has been well known of being narrow and precipitous in the suburban portion.

However, despite its precipitous drops to the west, the eastern side provides a nontechnical ( though long ) route to the summit.

In the last half-mile ( 800 m ) of its progress it rushes down the hillside in a narrow, precipitous, rocky channel, creating the falls for which Fall River is named.

Some of them were sited beside precipitous cliffs and were protected by large ramparts, artificial or natural: a good example is at Burland near Gulberwick in Shetland, on a clifftop and cut off from the mainland by huge ditches.

Inland from the gulf coast, the plain rises to the precipitous northward-facing cliffs of the dissected highlands.

The " tech-heavy " Nasdaq fell a more precipitous 79 % from its 5132 peak ( 10 March 2000 ) to its 1108 bottom ( 10 October 2002 ).

They noted a precipitous reduction in food availability as well, dropping from about 2, 000 calories per day at the start of the war, to 1, 680 for industrial workers at the height of the campaign, and less for non-essential workers.

Although none of these peaks actually rises much above the surrounding plateau, their precipitous slopes make them appear impressively high from the valley.

A mile to the southwest of Tomintoul, the Water of Ailnack enters from the confines of a precipitous gorge-the higher reaches of this watercourse are known as the Water of Caiplich.

Running along the Russian southern bank of the river were precipitous cliffs, high, continuing inland from the river's mouth for almost two miles ( 3 km ) where they met a less steep, but equally high hill known as Telegraph Hill across the river from the village of Bourliouk.

The entrance to the Cromarty Firth is guarded by two precipitous rocks — the one on the north 400 feet ( 121. 92 m ) high and the one on the south 463 feet ( 141. 12 m ) high — called " The Sutors " from a fancied resemblance to a couple of shoemakers ( in Scots, souters ) bent over their lasts.

In addition and probably more decisively, the program experienced a precipitous drop in its ratings during its last two years on the air, falling from a peak of 8. 4 in the 1968 – 1969 television season to a 5. 3 in 1970 – 1971.

Public campaigns were mounted to protect Lake Baykal from industrial pollution and to halt the precipitous decline in the water levels of the Caspian Sea, the Sea of Azov, and, most urgently, the Aral Sea.

Whymper was convinced that its precipitous appearance when viewed from Zermatt was an optical illusion, and that the dip of the strata, which on the Italian side formed a continuous series of overhangs, should make the opposite side a natural staircase.

It rises from low broken cliffs in the east to precipitous 150 to 365m cliffs on the west.

He also strongly opposed a precipitous withdrawal, arguing that a pull-out from Iraq before the country was able to govern, sustain, and defend itself " would be a strategic defeat for American interests, with potentially catastrophic consequences both in the region and beyond.

While now known to lack some of its neighbour's elevation, Scafell is still the more difficult peak to climb, especially from the precipitous northern and eastern sides.

The atoll's lagoon is open and very free from reef patches, although some precipitous shoals approach the surface.

* September 3 – Nationalist aircraft on Majorca support a Nationalist counteroffensive against Republican invaders, demoralizing them and sparking a precipitous Republican retreat from the island, which will become an important Nationalist base for the remainder of the Spanish Civil War.

Michmash lay on the line of march of an invading army from the north, on the north side of the steep and precipitous Wady es-Suweinit (" valley of the little thorn-tree " or " the acacia "), and now bears the name of Mukhmas.

It is about 1 km from the coast of the Black Sea but due to the precipitous cliffs it is not readily accessible.

The pass has a mostly gradual rise from its southern approach of at Santa Clarita, but a precipitous descent through Grapevine Canyon toward the San Joaquin Valley on the north, where it ends at the Grapevine at.

The glen, approaching from the east on the main A82 road, is surrounded by wild and precipitous mountains.

There are many waterfalls at the edges of Ranchi plateau where rivers coming from over the plateau surface form waterfalls when they descend through the precipitous escarpments of the plateau and enter the area of significantly lower height.

Rome went from a population of 800, 000 in the beginning of the period to a population of 30, 000 by the end of the period, the most precipitous drop coming with the breaking of the aqueducts during the Gothic War.

Matters were worsened once the vanquished remnants of the Prussian army from Jena stumbled onto the clash at Auerstedt, further plunging the Prussians ' morale and triggering their precipitous retreat.

The ancient city was placed on the level summit of a gigantic hill, so lofty as almost to deserve to be called a mountain, and surrounded on all sides with precipitous cliffs almost wholly inaccessible, except in a very few spots which are easily defended, abundantly supplied with water which gushes from the face of the rocks on all sides, and having a fine plain or table land of about 5 km in circumference on the summit, it forms one of the most remarkable natural fortresses in the world.

It occupied the whole plateau or summit of the hill, and the remains of the ancient walls may be traced, at intervals, all round the brow of the cliffs, except in one part, facing the sea, where the cliff is now quite precipitous.

Three of these are low and more or less submerged, but the middle one is higher than the European rock, sloping up to an acute point and roundish right up to its summit ; it is splashed by the waves but not submerged and is everywhere precipitous and straight.

Similarly to its neighbor Mount Thielsen, it is a shield volcano with precipitous summit slopes, and the two are almost equal in appearance.

The Belfast naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger wrote in 1939: A tall mountain of nearly 2000 feet, precipitous on its northern side, has been devoured by the sea till the southern face forms a precipice likewise, descending on this side right into the Atlantic from the long knife-edge which forms the summit.

From a coastal belt varying in width from in width, the island rises sharply to the summit of Mount Vineuo, above sea level, making it one of the most precipitous islands in the world.

Here are the highest peak Torre de Cerredo ( 8, 688 ft ), Peña Vieja ( 8, 579 ft ), Peña Prieta ( 8, 304 ft ) and Espigüete ( 7, 898 ft ); an unnamed summit in the Picos de Europa, to which range the Peña Vieja also belongs, rises on the right bank of the Sella to a height of 8, 045 ft ; further west the peaks of Manpodres, Peña Ubiña, Peña Rubia and Cuiña all exceed 7, 000 ft. A conspicuous feature of the chain, as of the adjacent tableland, is the number of its parameras, isolated plateaus shut in by lofty mountains or even by precipitous walls of rock.

Good examples of these are the magnificent castles of Queribus and Peyrepertuse which are both perched on the side of precipitous drops on the last folds of the Corbieres mountains.

The Whiteman period also marked a precipitous decline in Beiderbecke's health, brought on by the demand of the bandleader's relentless touring and recording schedule in combination with Beiderbecke's persistent alcoholism.

Before the French had properly disembarked on the south bank, Joan of Arc reportedly launched a precipitous attack on the strongpoint of the Boulevart.

It is the present village of Rammun, " on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the Jordan valley ," supposed to be the site of Ai.

The last-named peak is connected with the Selbsanft by a massive wall of precipitous rocks enclosing the glacier on the east side, and forcing it, after descending at first nearly due east, to bend round first to north-east, and then due north.

When Burton returned on 21 May, he was angered by Speke's precipitous announcements, believing that they violated an agreement that the two men would speak to the society together.

Located on the precipitous escarpment on the east of the undulating Northern Tablelands plateau, the wilderness consists of impressive cliffs, rugged ridges, spurs and streams.

The narrow glen shows a dramatically grim grandeur, shut in on both sides by wild and precipitous mountains.

A small bothy exists on the precipitous Stac Lee too, also used by fowlers.

As the Royal Squadron cleared out of the Sound of Mull, and round the northern extremity of the island, a noble prospect lay before it, the steep and barren headlands of Ardnamurchan stretching away into the Atlantic on the right, on the left the precipitous cliffs of the Mull coast, and far away and embosomed in the ocean, the fantastic and varied forms of the adjacent islands.

For many years the majority of settlers used the precipitous Bridle Path to transport themselves and their belongings to the plains on the other side.

This piece shows a scene of deep and serene mountain valley covered with snow and several old trees struggling to survive on precipitous cliffs.

The Landsknechte, although rather conservative in their usage of weapons, and always containing a large majority of pikemen, inclined more to the tactical employment of firearms than the Swiss were because Landsknechts relied less on the precipitous rush to close combat and, as Imperial soldiers, they also often fought in formations mixed with Spaniards during the reign of King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. These Spaniards made a good widespread use of the arquebus and later, of the musket.

On the eastern side the coast is generally low and sandy but there is an extensive rocky and partly precipitous coast on the west that rises slowly to elevations of 200 – 400 ft ( 60 – 120 metres ).