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* ''VideoGame/{{Jusant}}'' is about climbing an incredibly tall rock tower. While there are several rests, including small villages built on the cliff-side, the climbs themselves become longer and more elaborate as the game progresses.
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* ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'': Film/JamesBond climbs a mountain in order to reach the BigBad's hideout monastery at the top.

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* ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'': in UsefulNotes/{{Greece}}, Film/JamesBond climbs a mountain cliff in order to reach the BigBad's hideout in the St. Cyril monastery at the top.(the location's RealLife name is Meteora).
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* The infamous 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.[[note]]Players and various staff members for the alumni rugby team of a Catholic school in Montevideo survive for over two months by [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty eating the bodies of the deceased]].[[/note]]Realizing that rescue searches were over, two team members walked over the Andes mountains into Chile to summon help. This was recreated in the 1993 film ''Film/{{Alive}}''.

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* The infamous 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.[[note]]Players and various staff members for the alumni rugby team of a Catholic school in Montevideo survive for over two months by [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty eating the bodies of the deceased]].[[/note]]Realizing [[/note]] Realizing that rescue searches were over, two team members walked over the Andes mountains into Chile to summon help. This was recreated in the 1993 film ''Film/{{Alive}}''.
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* ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'', of course. The protagonist is even a mountain climber.

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* K2 is the world's second highest mountain and considered a more difficult climb than Everest due to the extremely steep and technical climb. Also it tends to have powerful storms that last several days. There is a reason it has the second highest fatality rate of any mountain. And why, uniquely among the major mountains of the world, it has ''never'' been successfully climbed in winter until 2021.

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* K2 is the world's second highest mountain and considered a more difficult climb than Everest due to the extremely steep and technical climb. Also it tends to have powerful storms that last several days. There is a reason it has the second highest fatality rate of any mountain.mountain (now highest as of 2022). And why, uniquely among the major mountains of the world, it has ''never'' been successfully climbed in winter until 2021.
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* K2 is the world's second highest mountain and considered a more difficult climb than Everest due to the extremely steep and technical climb. Also it tends to have powerful storms that last several days. There is a reason it has the second highest fatality rate of any mountain. And why, uniquely among the major mountains of the world, it has ''never'' been successfully climbed in winter.

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* K2 is the world's second highest mountain and considered a more difficult climb than Everest due to the extremely steep and technical climb. Also it tends to have powerful storms that last several days. There is a reason it has the second highest fatality rate of any mountain. And why, uniquely among the major mountains of the world, it has ''never'' been successfully climbed in winter.winter until 2021.
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* ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Mission: Impossible]]'':

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* ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol''. Ethan Hunt has to climb up the outside of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, using adhesive gloves, cut his way in through a window, then come back down again. And this isn't part of a mission he's had time to psych himself up for either, but an IndyPloy when something goes wrong.
** Before that, ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' had Ethan climbing an Utah mountain barehanded before he gets his mission briefing. Keep in mind he was doing that ''for fun''. He was on vacation.

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* ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol''. Ethan Hunt has to climb up the outside of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, using adhesive gloves, cut his way in through a window, then come back down again. And this isn't part of a mission he's had time to psych himself up for either, but an IndyPloy when something goes wrong.
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** Before that, ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' had has Ethan Hunt (Creator/TomCruise) climbing an Utah mountain barehanded before he gets his mission briefing. Keep in mind he was doing that ''for fun''. He was on vacation.vacation.
** In ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'', Ethan has to climb up the outside of the Burj Khalifa (828 metres / 2,717 feet tall) in UsefulNotes/{{Dubai}}, using adhesive gloves, cut his way in through a window, then come back down again. And this isn't part of a mission he's had time to psych himself up for either, but an IndyPloy when something goes wrong.
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* The ladder sequence in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''.
* The cliffs in ''VideoGame/PeasantsQuest''.

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* The Cliffs of Madness in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'' could almost be the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]].
* ''VideoGame/Grandia1'' has a man-made version in the form of an absurdly high ''wall'' that apparently spans the entire width of a continent, known as "The End of the World". Everybody else deems it an impassible barrier, but the game's hero instead just climbs over it (which takes several days).
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Honest Hearts'', in addition to being a RiverOfInsanity expedition, has a lot of cliff climbing.



* The cliffs to Manhannan's house in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIII''. 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 ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVI'': half puzzle sequence, half CopyProtection! Naturally, if you get a certain puzzle wrong, you tumble to your death.
* The cliffs in ''VideoGame/PeasantsQuest''.
* The Cliffs of Madness in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'' could almost be the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]].
* The ladder sequence in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''.



* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Honest Hearts'', in addition to being a RiverOfInsanity expedition, has a lot of cliff climbing.
* ''VideoGame/Grandia1'' has a man-made version in the form of an absurdly high ''wall'' that apparently spans the entire width of a continent, known as "The End of the World". Everybody else deems it an impassible barrier, but the game's hero instead just climbs over it (which takes several days).

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* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Honest Hearts'', ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'':
** The cliffs to Manhannan's house
in addition to being a RiverOfInsanity expedition, has a lot of cliff climbing.
* ''VideoGame/Grandia1'' has a man-made version in the form of an absurdly high ''wall'' that apparently spans the entire width of a continent, known as "The End
''VideoGame/KingsQuestIII''. This was one of the World". Everybody else deems it an impassible barrier, but last times that Sierra made you navigate a maze with the game's hero instead just climbs over it (which takes several days).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 ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVI'': half puzzle sequence, half CopyProtection! Naturally, if you get a certain puzzle wrong, you tumble to your death.
* The ladder sequence in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''.
* The cliffs in ''VideoGame/PeasantsQuest''.
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What they all have in common, however, are the invisible arrows shouting "The plot goes this way." To simply go around (or take the elevator/tram ride) would be [[Film/ThePrincessBride incon]][[StealthPun ceivable]]. One must take them head-on; and just to be sporting, with whatever safety equipment they didn't think to bring along with them ahead of time.

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What they all have in common, however, are the invisible arrows shouting "The plot goes this way." To simply go around (or take the elevator/tram ride) would be [[Film/ThePrincessBride incon]][[StealthPun ceivable]].inconceivable]]. One must take them head-on; and just to be sporting, with whatever safety equipment they didn't think to bring along with them ahead of time.
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** 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 TheDeterminator.

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** The Drum Island Arc takes this to its worst. has Luffy, in the middle of a blizzard, carrying a sick Nami and an injured Sanji (with his mouth), has forced to climb a nearly flat mountain that inclines directly upwards. This takes several episodes. At one point, Luffy's fingers ''explode in blood 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,'' 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 TheDeterminator.proves Luffy's force of will.
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* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'':
** One of the few major challenges Dante and Virgil find traversing Hell are steep cliff-faces that they have to find their way down. The first time, they hitch a ride on the flying monster Geryon and the second, they convince a chained giant to lower them by its hand.
** Especially early on, the mountain of Purgatory is one of the most physically taxing obstacles on Dante's journey. Canto IV of ''Purgatorio'' in particular focusing mostly on the difficulty Dante has climbing the extremely steep base of the mountain.
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* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Buttercup's kidnappers climb the Cliffs of Insanity to escape pursuit (thinking no one else will be able to climb them), but of course the Man in Black [[{{Determinator}} isn't ready to give up that easily.]]

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* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Buttercup's kidnappers The Sicilian Crowd climb the Cliffs of Insanity to escape pursuit pursuit, mostly being Fezzik holding Inigo and Vizzini, (thinking no one else will be able to climb them), but of course the Man in Black [[{{Determinator}} isn't ready to give up that easily.]]
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->''"El Capitan, the great big granite monolith in Yosemite Valley that apparently attracts all kinds of nuts who want to die horrible, splattering deaths — I mean, mountain climbers, it attracts lots of mountain climbers."''

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->''"El Capitan, Capitan: the great big granite monolith in Yosemite Valley that apparently attracts all kinds of nuts who want to die horrible, splattering deaths — I mean, mountain climbers, it attracts lots of mountain climbers."''
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* ''Film/TheNakedSpur'': Anderson repeatedly scales large rock faces to get the jump on Ben.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Syberia}} 2'', Kate needs to climb an ice wall to reach the plateau where the pilot from the previous game just crash landed.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'' 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 TheDeterminator.

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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 TheDeterminator.



* The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] is ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Buttercup's kidnappers climb the Cliffs of Insanity to escape pursuit (thinking no one else will be able to climb them), but of course the Man in Black [[{{Determinator}} isn't ready to give up that easily.]]

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* The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Buttercup's kidnappers climb the Cliffs of Insanity to escape pursuit (thinking no one else will be able to climb them), but of course the Man in Black [[{{Determinator}} isn't ready to give up that easily.]]
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** If merely climbing it isn't insane enough, try Speed climbing
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* Frank and Nails climbing up to Holli's apartment in ''Film/CoolWorld'' is presented like this, especially since Cool World architecture operates on ToonPhysics with odd curves and spirals everywhere. Later, Holli's underlings are shown stacking furniture and other odds and ends to reach the top, too.
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* UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat found the Sogdian Rock (or Rock of Ariamazes) fortress standing in the way of his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire. Requests for surrender was met with the claims that Alexander would need men with wings to hope to capture the fort. The high cliff-face it was situationed on was thought of as impregnable by its defenders - so much so that it was undefended when Alexander had 300 volunteers climb it at night and they signaled Alexander their success (though they lost a tenth of their number just by the climb). Alexander heralded the defenders that he had found his winged men which shocked them to such an extent that they surrendered without further incident, in spite of how the climbers were hopelessly outnumbered by the defenders for an actual fight. The fort was also where Alexander would first see his future wife Roxana.
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-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''', ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' recap.

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-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''', ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' recap.
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* In ''Literature/HighTimeToKill'', a plane carrying an [[MacGuffin important formula]] crashes near the summit of Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world. Literature/JamesBond is sent there in an expedition to retrieve the formula along with his [[RememberTheNewGuy newly-introduced]] lifelong rival, who just happens to be an expert in mountain climbing.
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*  Played for laughs in "Film/EriktheViking" Where Erik uses grappling hooks to scale the tower where Prince Aud lives, only to have her ask, "Why didn't you take the stairs?"

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*  Played Played for laughs in "Film/EriktheViking" "Film/ErikTheViking" Where Erik uses grappling hooks to scale the tower where Prince Aud lives, only to have her ask, "Why didn't you take the stairs?"

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