The election was a real 'cliff-hanger'. No one knew who was going to win until the very end.
Standing at the edge of the 'cliff', we watched the waves crash on the shore far below.
rock climbers scaling steep 'cliffs'
(..) being a thing immortal as itself? - It waves me forth again, I'll follow it - What if it tempt you towards the flood, my lord? Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff that overlaps his base into the sea'? And there assumes some other horrible form which might deprive you of your reason... (..)2015 Hamlet