The crumpled plane was lying on a precarious slope a few feet away from a ridge in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains at an elevation of 12,460 feet, one-half mile south of Mt. Bradley.

They had to lead the horses up, Bothari practically seeming to hoist his along the precarious scrubby slope.

Then slowly they started down the precarious slope to Potato Cove.

As chairman of the newly formed La Conchita Community Organization, Mr. Bell is leading a charge to make Ventura County officials build terraces and reinforce the precarious 600-foot slope.

The very flexible hooves of the mountain goat give it maximum grip on precarious slopes and dizzy ledges.

More threatened momentary avalanche off the precarious slopes.

On our last trip we were lucky enough to see two males going head to head on a precarious slope, with the crashes of their collisions echoing through the crisp air.

The rocks here were larger and more solidly packed than the precarious slope they had climbed earlier.

Behind the fall: across the more obdurate foothills beyond it to the steep fan of scree: up that precarious slope to the conceal Of the rift.

Mr. Jacob pulled on his pants, grabbed a coat and stumbled into the hallway, where he saw a woman in the adjacent apartment hoisting herself up from the precarious slope of her bedroom floor with a pair of blue jeans.