Photo Essay: 13 Places to Get Close to the EDGE

06/5/09

Popular Written by Hal Amen

No matter how hard you try, there are some people you can’t keep away from the edge. Here’s where you’re likely to find them.

Mother and child looking over the cliff, Norway

1. Preikestolen, Norway
Photographer: claudiomoderini

2. Gozo Cliffs, Malta
Photographer: ino paap

3. Mystery spot: Let us know in the comments below where this photograph was taken. To the first person that gets it right we’ll send a new Laken water bottle.
Photographer: ?–contact us

Climber near the top of the Eiger at sunrise

4. The Eiger, Switzerland
Photographer: Ai@ce

Man preparing for a cliff jump at Gordon's Bay

5. Gordon’s Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa
Photographer: danflo

6. Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, USA
Photographer: jurvetson

7. Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho, USA
Photographer: Mister M•

Hiker sitting on the Huntington Ravine headwall, New Hampshire

8. White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA
Photographer: BurningQuestion

Visitors lie on the edge of the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

9. The Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
Photographer: w00kie

10. Kjerag, Lysefjorden, Norway
Photographer: hakonthingstad

11. Mont Margeriaz, Rhone-Alpes, France
Photographer: *pascal*

Hiker sits on a cliff edge in Zion National Park

12. Zion National Park, USA
Photographer: pawpaw67

13. Pikes Peak, Colorado, USA
Photographer: ishrona

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Tagged under: BASE jumping, cliffs, climbing, edge, Hiking, Mountains, Photo Essay, pikes peak, view, yosemite, zion

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Freelance writer Hal Amen co-edits Matador Trips. His personal travel blog is at WayWorded.

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Peter Ireland replied on August 2, 2010

“Solomon’s Dungeon”, a small conical volcanic peak in NW Iran at Tahkt-i-Suleyman, may look like nothing from afar, but climb it and you are standing on the edge of a cylindrical volcanic vent plunging almost vertically down. Our guide said we would be terrified and we pooh-poohed him, but the experience was gut-churning, especially as Iranian families were up there and the kids were scrambling around above the void.
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