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Near the end of our trip, Reij and I drove north into Mali, up a winding road that led to the cliffs of Bandiagara.

There was no cliff-edge vertiginous quality, no claustrophobia, no killing acoustic, no confusing of atmosphere with noise.

Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the impossible, and beyond which life is no longer anything but a precipice.

Around the island the cliffs rise out of the cold sea without the courtesy of a beach.

What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliff?

And the scientists, geologists always tells me that the real interesting science, the science-rich sites, are always at the cliffs.

Welcome to the state of Colorado. It's a land with a history of cliff dwellers, gold miners, railroad travelers, and homesteaders.

And yet, many of these escarpments hide sites where humans dispose of all sorts of waste.

Further north, a string of villages huddles along cliffs reached by a quiet loop off the main highway to the Romanian border.