The terrain in Pitcairn is of rugged volcanic formation, with a rocky coastline and cliffs lining nearly the entire perimeter of the island, giving no easy access from the sea.

They're inexpensive, really rugged.

This is an incredibly rugged machine.

And of course, rugged goes without saying.

Those white cliffs are a dense Cambrian limestone.

The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

This is a rugged and barren landscape, yet there are quite a few spiders here.

I don't want him killed. I know he's going to love cliffs.

Now, at the base of the high cliffs there's this natural cave.

With onboard GPS, it can navigate autonomously, and it is rugged enough to self land without damage.

With on board GPS, it can navigate autonomously, and it is rugged enough to self land without damage.

It's for Motorola's new Rugged cell phone, and yes, it really does say, Slap Mother Nature in the face.

BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth meaning mountains, cliffs.

This discovery changed everything about our sense of these cliffs and what to do with them.

For a long time, this is the image of American manhood that dominated tough, rugged, in control of his own environment.

Nevertheless, effects such as radar shadowing, layover (relief displacement) and foreshortening can complicate the visual interpretation of imagery of areas of rugged terrain.

Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

Landscape ecology concerns itself with how the stream and the meadow and the forest and the cliffs make habitats for plants and animals.

This is all Forest Service land. If you go up on top of those cliffs, that's some of the Long Now land in those trees.

And you can carry right on up through meadows and steepening forest to the high base of the cliffs at 10,500 feet, where there's a bit of a problem.

And as you come from the north, it is all masonry growing out of the sand cliffs as you come from the Himalayas and evoking the tradition of the fortress.

Start with borders. If you look on the left side of the cliffs here, that's national park. That's sacrosanct you can't do anything with that. To the right of it is national forest.

It's this beautiful world all of its own, surrounded by cliffs, and it's an easy hike to stroll up the canyon bottom, until you get to this barrier, and it actually presents a problem.

Bring me blocks of iron. So that, when he had leveled up between the two cliffs, he said, Blow. And having turned it into a fire, he said, Bring me tar to pour over it.

Bring me blocks of iron. So that, when he had leveled up between the two cliffs, he said, Blow. And having turned it into a fire, he said, Bring me tar to pour over it.

Give me pieces of iron till, when he had levelled up (the gap) between the cliffs, he said Blow! till, when he had made it a fire, he said Bring me molten copper to pour thereon.

Give me pieces of iron till, when he had levelled up (the gap) between the cliffs, he said Blow! till, when he had made it a fire, he said Bring me molten copper to pour thereon.

Bring me ingots of iron' After he had leveled between the two cliffs, he said 'Blow' And when he made it a fire, he said 'Bring me molten copper so that I may pour over it'

Bring me ingots of iron' After he had leveled between the two cliffs, he said 'Blow' And when he made it a fire, he said 'Bring me molten copper so that I may pour over it'

And the structures rise from the sand cliffs they're built in concrete and sandstones the roofs are stainless steel they are facing south and reflecting light towards the temple itself, pedestrians crisscross from one side to the other.

Now, I happened to be on the radio with Alexander when he got to this point at the base of the cliffs, and he said, quote, There's a hidden notch. I think I can get up a ways.

In this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has pioneered to explore it. He and his team risk everything to reveal the secrets of undiscovered species.

Bring me ingots of iron!' Until, when he had made all level between the two cliffs, he said, 'Blow!' Until, when he had made it a fire, he said, 'Bring me, that I may pour molten brass on it.'

Bring me ingots of iron!' Until, when he had made all level between the two cliffs, he said, 'Blow!' Until, when he had made it a fire, he said, 'Bring me, that I may pour molten brass on it.'

So, I've been talking to a lot of NASA JPL scientists at JPL they are famous for the Mars rovers and the scientists, geologists always tell me that the real interesting science, the science rich sites, are always at the cliffs.

BRUSSELS A storm tossed ship near dangerous cliffs needs a strong anchor to avoid finishing on the rocks. In 2012, when a financial storm engulfed the eurozone, it was Germany that kept the European ship off the shoals of financial disaster.

Give me pieces (blocks) of iron, then, when he had filled up the gap between the two mountain cliffs, he said Blow, till when he had made it (red as) fire, he said Bring me molten copper to pour over it.

Give me pieces (blocks) of iron, then, when he had filled up the gap between the two mountain cliffs, he said Blow, till when he had made it (red as) fire, he said Bring me molten copper to pour over it.

See P. H. Rossi and H. E. Freeman, Evaluation A Systematic Approach, 4th ed. (Newbury Park, California, Sage, 1989) and also David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining, Policy Analysis Concepts and Practice (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1992).

Americans have been blinded to these calamitous mistakes partly by a long history of racism, as well as by a misplaced faith in rugged individualism. For example, some white families have opposed public financing for education, because they believe that their tax money goes disproportionately to help poorer non white students.

I rode my butt off back there, says Colleen, a former US naval commander who has just completed a 25 mile bike ride along the spine of some rugged Croatian island and left nothing out there but a bucketful of sweat and a salvo of salty naval expletives hurled at the hostile hills.

Now, if you go over to the right from this image to looking at the edge of the cliffs, it's 600 foot, just about a yard to the left of Kurt Bollacker's foot, there is a 600 foot drop. He's ambling on over to Zander's Siq.

From Trogir our cruise takes us northwards for two days through the Kornati archipelago, where we ride most of the length of Dugi Otok Croatian for long island and have our slumbers interrupted for a walk in the Telašćica Nature Park, to admire its high cliffs and a salt lake fed by sea water through an underground channel.