Denis-Huot / Bushfires in dry season on the Isuria escarpment, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. October 2007.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Guide taking in view of escarpment, Mali, 2005-2006.

Hougaard Malan / Drakensberg Escarpment, the pinnacles known as the pyramid and the column can be seen protruding from the mist. KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. November 2012.

Anup Shah / Aerial view of Lake Eyasi and The Great Rift Valley Escarpment, Tanzania

Graham Eaton / View towards Cribyn from Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, September. The outcrops of Devonian age, Old Red Sandstone forms escarpments carved by glaciers during the last ice age.

Graham Eaton / View towards Cribyn from Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, September. The outcrops of Devonian age, Old Red Sandstone forms escarpments carved by glaciers during the last ice age.

Graham Eaton / The Carboniferous age Limestone escaprpment of Warrendale Knotts near Settle, North Yorkshire, UK, October

Graham Eaton / The southern approach to Pen-y-ghent, one of theYorkshire '3 Peaks'. The summit comprises Carboniferous age Millstone Grit, overlying Carboniferous Limestone that forms the outcrop in the imag...

Vincent Grafhorst / Gelada Baboon (Theropithecus gelada) females grooming on escarpment, Simien Mountain National Park, Ethiopia

Vincent Grafhorst / Gelada Baboon (Theropithecus gelada) male on escarpment, Simien Mountain National Park, Ethiopia

Angelo Gandolfi / Woman looking at waterfall from 'Sila Piccola' southern escarpment, Campanaro Waterfall, Sila National Park, Parco Nazionale della Sila UNESCO World Heritage Site, Calabria, Italy, June.

Angelo Gandolfi / 'Sila Piccola', the southern escarpment. Del Campanaro. Sila National Park, Parco Nazionale della Sila UNESCO World Heritage Site, Calabria, Italy, June.