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 Height Tropes.
Subtropes:
Climbing and Traversal
- Absurd Altitude
- Bedsheet Ladder
- Body Bridge
- Can't Use Stairs
- Climbing Climax
- Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity
- Climb, Slip, Hang, Climb
- Colossus Climb
- Crow's Nest Cartography
- Dangerous Clifftop Road
- Dramatic High Perching
- Driving Up a Wall
- Electric Slide
- Enter Stage Window
- Floating Platforms
- Grappling-Hook Pistol
- The Ground Is Lava
- Human Ladder
- In a Single Bound
- I Need No Ladders
- It's All Upstairs From Here
- Journey to the Sky
- "King Kong" Climb
- Leap of Faith
- Lover's Ledge
- Mind Your Step
- Le Parkour
- The Precarious Ledge
- Rise to the Challenge
- Roofhopping
- Rooftop Confrontation
- Scaling the Summit
- Sitting on the Roof
- Stepping Stones in the Sky
- Stepping-Stone Sword
- Sticky Shoes
- Super Window Jump
- Through the Ceiling, Stealthily
- Tightrope Walking
- Wall Crawl
- Wall Jump
- Wall Run
Falling
- Air Jousting
- Blade Brake
- Bottomless Pit
- Bottomless Pit Rescue Service
- Car Cushion
- Casual High Drop
- Catch a Falling Star
- Crash in Through the Ceiling
- Cut the Safety Rope
- Desperate Object Catch
- Destination Defenestration
- Disney Villain Death
- Falling into His Arms
- Free-Fall Fight
- Free-Fall Romance
- Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress: Falling through clotheslines gets you dressed in mismatched clothes.
- Hanging by the Fingers
- High-Altitude Battle
- High-Altitude Interrogation
- High-Dive Escape
- Hit the Ground Harder
- I Fell for Hours
- Improbable Falling Save
- Ladder Tipping
- Literal Cliffhanger
- No Escape but Down
- Non-Lethal Bottomless Pits
- Noose Catch
- Not the Fall That Kills You…
- Railing Kill
- Slow-Motion Fall
- Staircase Tumble
- Suicidal "Gotcha!"
- Take My Hand!
- Talking Down The Suicide
- Trash Landing
Physics
- Edge Gravity
- Falling Damage
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress
- Inertial Dampening
- Ladder Physics
- Plummet Perspective
- Soft Water
- Teetering on the Edge
- Variable Terminal Velocity
Structural
- Absurdly Long Stairway
- Clock Tower
- Construction Zone Calamity
- Elevator Failure
- Evil Tower of Ominousness
- Girl in the Tower
- Highly Visible Landmark
- Lift of Doom
- Mage Tower
- Over-the-Top Roller Coaster
- Sky Cell
- Space Elevator
- Star Scraper
- Stock Clock Hand Hang
