These tropes all involve or are related to being at a great distance above ground level, or some object or place of great heights. They involve climbing, wall-navigating, structure traversal, and any traipsing about that doesn't involve out-and-out flying through the air, in a vehicle or not. This index also collects tropes involving falling from such heights as well.

For tropes involving character heights, see HeightTropes.


[[PlummetPerspective Don't look down!]]
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Subtropes:
+ FallingAndLandingIndex
]

!!Climbing and Traversal
* AbsurdAltitude
* BedsheetLadder
* BodyBridge
* CantUseStairs
* ClimbingClimax
* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity
* ClimbSlipHangClimb
* ColossusClimb
* CrowsNestCartography
* DangerousClifftopRoad
* DramaticHighPerching
* DrivingUpAWall
* ElectricSlide
* EnterStageWindow
* FloatingPlatforms
* GrapplingHookPistol
* TheGroundIsLava
* HumanLadder
* InASingleBound
* INeedNoLadders
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere
* JourneyToTheSky
* KingKongClimb
* LeapOfFaith
* LoversLedge
* MindYourStep
* LeParkour
* ThePrecariousLedge
* RiseToTheChallenge
* {{Roofhopping}}
* RooftopConfrontation
* ScalingTheSummit
* SittingOnTheRoof
* SteppingStonesInTheSky
* SteppingStoneSword
* StickyShoes
* SuperWindowJump
* ThroughTheCeilingStealthily
* TightropeWalking
* WallCrawl
* WallJump
* WallRun

!!Falling
* AirJousting
* BladeBrake
* BottomlessPit
* BottomlessPitRescueService
* CarCushion
* CasualHighDrop
* CatchAFallingStar
* CrashInThroughTheCeiling
* CutTheSafetyRope
* DesperateObjectCatch
* DestinationDefenestration
* DisneyVillainDeath
* FallingIntoHisArms
* FreeFallFight
* FreeFallRomance
* GravityIsAHarshSeamstress: Falling through clotheslines gets you dressed in mismatched clothes.
* HangingByTheFingers
* HighAltitudeBattle
* HighAltitudeInterrogation
* HighDiveEscape
* HitTheGroundHarder
* IFellForHours
* ImprobableFallingSave
* LadderTipping
* LiteralCliffhanger
* NoEscapeButDown
* NonLethalBottomlessPits
* NooseCatch
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou
* RailingKill
* SlowMotionFall
* StaircaseTumble
* SuicidalGotcha
* TakeMyHand
* TalkingDownTheSuicide
* TrashLanding

!!Physics
* EdgeGravity
* FallingDamage
* GravityIsAHarshMistress
* InertialDampening
* LadderPhysics
* PlummetPerspective
* SoftWater
* TeeteringOnTheEdge
* VariableTerminalVelocity

!!Structural
* AbsurdlyLongStairway
* ClockTower
* ConstructionZoneCalamity
* ElevatorFailure
* EvilTowerOfOminousness
* GirlInTheTower
* HighlyVisibleLandmark
* LiftOfDoom
* MageTower
* OverTheTopRollerCoaster
* SkyCell
* SpaceElevator
* StarScraper
* StockClockHandHang
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