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* [[Clifftop Caterwauling]]
* [[Climbing Climax]]
* [[Climb, Slip, Hang, Climb]]
* [[Clock Tower]]
* [[Colossus Climb]]
* [[A Crack in the Ice]]
* [[Disney Villain Death]]
* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]
* [[No Escape but Down]]
* [[Plummet Perspective]]
* [[Railing Kill]]
* [[Rope Bridge]]
* [[Save the Villain]]
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]]
* ''[[One Piece]]'' during the Drum Island Arc takes this to its worst. Luffy, in the middle of a blizzard, carrying a sick Nami and an injured Sanji (with his mouth), has to climb a nearly flat mountain that inclines directly upwards. This takes several episodes. At one point, Luffy's fingers ''explode in blood and he ends up sliding down a whole fraction of the mountain, blood flying everywhere, Luffy unable to even scream less Sanji drops from his mouth,'' until he finally regains his grip. This is truly one of the most painful scenes to see in the entire anime and easily turned Luffy into [[The Determinator]].
== [[Comic
* In ''[[Sin City]]'', Marv has to get to his parole officer's highrise apartment but there's a man hunt for him going on. How does he get up there? Simple. He climbs up the side of a building with his bare hands.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', it seems like the only way to travel through the mountains is to walk along narrow cliffs. Naturally, there's a couple [[Literal Cliffhangers]] and a minor character's [[Disney Villain Death]].
== [[Live
* In the Season Four finale of ''[[Angel]]'', the titular vampire hero has to climb (without equipment, but, hey, he's a vampire) insanely tall cliffs in a hell dimension in order to reach a temple which houses the only creature to know Jasmine's true name.
* [[Inverted Trope]] on a late-Season 2 episode of ''[[The A-Team]]'': the A-Team had to ''scale down'' a cliff in order to escape the bad guys.
* This is a common task on ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', where teams have to climb to the top of something to retrieve their clue.
* In an episode of [[Legend of the Seeker]] "Eternity", Richard and Kahlan encounter cliffs of insanity that double as [[The Wall Around the World|the wall around the]] <s>world</s> [[The Wall Around the World|magical valley]] and try to climb over them. Naturally, there's a [[Literal Cliff Hanger]] moment.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* You climb some high cliffs at two points in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. When you're doing it the second time you're constantly losing body heat, so you have to stop on ledges to heat yourself up occasionally.▼
* The cliffs to Manhannan's house in ''[[King's Quest III]]''. This was one of the last times that Sierra made you navigate a maze with the arrow keys, where the slightest misstep led to instant death. And you had to do this every time you needed to enter or leave the house, which you had to do all the time.▼
* The Cliffs of Logic in ''[[King's Quest VI]]'': half puzzle sequence, half [[Copy Protection]]! Naturally, if you get a certain puzzle wrong, you tumble to your death.▼
* The cliffs in ''[[Peasant's Quest]]''.▼
* The Cliffs of Madness in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' could almost be the [[Trope Namer]].▼
* The ladder sequence in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''.▼
* This has to be done in order to get the Blue Feather in ''[[Harvest Moon]]: Magical Melody''.▼
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite National Park most definitely qualify.
* The North Face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. It's nicknamed ''Mordwand'' — "Murder Wall" — because of the number of people who've died trying to climb it ... according to The Other Wiki, 64 just since 1935. The book and then movie ''The Eiger Sanction'' involved yet another climbing expedition, this one fictional. Three out of four members died.
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* You climb some high cliffs at two points in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. When you're doing it the second time you're constantly losing body heat, so you have to stop on ledges to heat yourself up occasionally.
▲* The cliffs to Manhannan's house in ''[[King's Quest III]]''. This was one of the last times that Sierra made you navigate a maze with the arrow keys, where the slightest misstep led to instant death. And you had to do this every time you needed to enter or leave the house, which you had to do all the time.
▲* The Cliffs of Logic in ''[[King's Quest VI]]'': half puzzle sequence, half [[Copy Protection]]! Naturally, if you get a certain puzzle wrong, you tumble to your death.
▲* The cliffs in ''[[Peasant's Quest]]''.
▲* The Cliffs of Madness in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' could almost be the [[Trope Namer]].
▲* The ladder sequence in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''.
▲* This has to be done in order to get the Blue Feather in ''[[Harvest Moon]]: Magical Melody''.
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