Century Lake also served as the location for a famous cliff-jumping scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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Numerous self-inflicted crises loom, but cliff-jumping as the clock strikes midnight January 1 2013 is not one of them.

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After a two to three kilometre walk along the path at the entrance of the park, a steep and slippery climb leads to several refreshing swimming holes and cliff-jumping opportunities.

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The world is looking on, agog, and wondering why the United States seems intent on jumping off this cliff.

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They had been jumping from the cliff into the sea, when a swell swept 11 of their party away.

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Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, has said that entrepreneurship is like jumping off a cliff and building an airplane on the way down.

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Faced with the edge of a cliff, according to media accounts, they would prefer jumping off with a homemade parachute made of bed sheets to finding another way safely down.

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For them, the formal ski area effectively serves as a jumping-off point, a gateway to vast tracts of challenging off-piste terrain studded with cliff drops, creamy powder stashes, edge-of-your-seat steeps and wide, rolling slopes.

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