Compared with the grubby, overcrowded underground systems of London, Paris and New York, Bangkok's train on stilts is a sparkling success.
The most amazing thing about the new station is that it's built on stilts that function more like legs that can elevate the station above snow and ice.
"It was just a gardener's cottage built up on stilts, " says Mr. Leclercq, a technology executive.
One of Mr Copeland's colleagues recently broke his stilts in a fall.
Walking through Oceaneering's warehouse full of boxy robots on stilts, Campbell says people don't realize how far these machines have to travel to monitor the oil that's gushing into the Gulf every day -- or how well-equipped they must be.
Situated on a remote and otherwise deserted island distinguished by serous limestone cliffs, Lagen has 50 private rooms, including a crescent of eight hip-roofed cottages poised on stilts in an oval of placid water that's the color of molten Coke bottles.
To Roberts, Lake Zakher has reliably proved something of a birdwatcher's paradise, with herons, flamingos and stilts among the rich diversity of species drawn to this rare water source.
Parts of Silwan, on the eastern slopes below the Old City, are already precariously propped up on iron stilts, to facilitate the excavation of King David's biblical city, which is said to lie beneath.
Good publicity for Ms. Beckham's increasingly impressive collections, but within a few days she was back in her trademark stilts (48 hours is a long time in celebrity journalism).
Woodland bandits, they dress up as bandy-legged giants (Ishioka provides them with stilts that seem to be made of accordion sleeves) to set upon unwary travelers, like Armie Hammer's Prince Alcott.
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