Climbers have to pull themselves straight up the face of very high rocks or walls.
VOA: special.2009.12.09
The poorest countries continue to face high food prices, which have fallen elsewhere.
VOA: special.2009.11.23
Each face is about eighteen meters high.
VOA: special.2009.03.04
But in recent years knots of people often gathered there to watch an odder creature creeping, by feet and hands alone, across the high sheer face of boulder, buttress or cliff.
"No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity, " Knox said.