Illustration - Fontainebleau

Illustration - Fontainebleau

FRANCE, SEINE-ET-MARNE (77) FONTAINEBLEAU, CHATEAU DE FONTAINEBLEAU, THE COUR D'HONNEUR, THE HORSESHOE STAIRWAY Photo by Jarry Tripelon/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - La Rochelle

Illustration - La Rochelle

FRANCE, CHARENTE-MARITIME (17) TOWN OF LA ROCHELLE, TOWN HALL, FACADE DETAIL BUILT IN RENAISSANCE AND NEOCLASSICAL STYLE, STAIRWAY OF HONOUR Photo by Jarry Tripelon/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

World's Largest Natural Ice Rink Reopens - Ottawa

World's Largest Natural Ice Rink Reopens - Ottawa

Skaters head down a stairway past a gate leading to the Rideau Canal Skateway, on the morning of its opening day in Ottawa, ON, Canada on Sunday, January 21, 2024. Renowned Rideau Canal Skateway, the world's largest natural ice skating rink, opened for skating on Sunday morning for the first time in two years, the National Capital Commission (NCC) said. The 7.8-km (4.9-mile) Rideau Canal Skateway, which first opened over 50 years ago, opens new tab, is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Canada's capital city Ottawa and is also a top attraction for skating enthusiasts seeking outdoor thrills during Canada's usually biting cold winters. The canal did not open to skating last season in early 2023 for the first time due to a lack of ice, NCC, which maintains and operates the skateway, said at the time, blaming the closure on a mild winter caused by climate change. Photo by Justin Tang/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

World's Largest Natural Ice Rink Reopens - Ottawa

World's Largest Natural Ice Rink Reopens - Ottawa

People lace up their skates on a stairway along the Rideau Canal Skateway on its opening day in Ottawa, ON, Canada on Sunday, January 21, 2024. Renowned Rideau Canal Skateway, the world's largest natural ice skating rink, opened for skating on Sunday morning for the first time in two years, the National Capital Commission (NCC) said. The 7.8-km (4.9-mile) Rideau Canal Skateway, which first opened over 50 years ago, opens new tab, is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Canada's capital city Ottawa and is also a top attraction for skating enthusiasts seeking outdoor thrills during Canada's usually biting cold winters. The canal did not open to skating last season in early 2023 for the first time due to a lack of ice, NCC, which maintains and operates the skateway, said at the time, blaming the closure on a mild winter caused by climate change. Photo by Justin Tang/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Five dead in Vantaa apartment fire

Five dead in Vantaa apartment fire

A view to the stairway of the burnt apartment in Vantaa, Finland, on October 8, 2023. A fire broke out in a flat on the bottom floor of a residental block in Vantaa early on Sunday, killing five people. Four of the dead were children. One adult survived. LEHTIKUVA / JUSSI NUKARI - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

Sapporo teen jumps to his death

Sapporo teen jumps to his death

SAPPORO, Japan - Graffiti in August 2011 at an emergency stairway of an apartment building in Sapporo, Hokkaido in northern Japan, reads, ''Fall from here and die.'' A 13-year-old boy jumped to his death from the roof of the building on Aug. 30, 2011. Police are investigating if the graffiti has anything to do with the junior high school student's suicide.

Airbus unveils world's largest A380 passenger plane

Airbus unveils world's largest A380 passenger plane

TOKYO, Japan - Airbus opens its next-generation passenger plane A380 to the media at Narita airport on June 5. The world's largest passenger jet is 73 meters long and has 525 seats on two decks, which are linked by a wide stairway.

(2)Subway worker shot, seriously injured, at Shibuya Station

(2)Subway worker shot, seriously injured, at Shibuya Station

TOKYO, Japan - Police cordon off a stairway leading to Tokyo's Shibuya Station on June 23 after Tokyo Metro employee Shigeo Nishioka, 32, was shot in the abdomen there during the morning rush hour.

Return rush after New Year holidays in Japan

Return rush after New Year holidays in Japan

A shinkansen bullet train platform and stairway at JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital is crowded with travelers on Jan. 3, 2022, as people head home after New Year holidays.

Return rush after New Year holidays in Japan

Return rush after New Year holidays in Japan

A shinkansen bullet train platform and stairway at JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital is crowded with travelers on Jan. 3, 2022, as people head home after New Year holidays.

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Social distancing signages are seen in an empty stairway at the Theatre Sebastopol occupied by entertainment workers on March 17, 2021 in Lille, north of France. Protesters occupied three national theatres on Wednesday to demand an end to the ban on cultural activities imposed due to the pandemic as frustration grows with the months-long halt to performances. Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and have remained closed despite most businesses reopening in December. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Sebadelha Julie/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

An empty stairway is seen at the Theatre Sebastopol occupied by entertainment workers on March 17, 2021 in Lille, north of France. Protesters occupied three national theatres on Wednesday to demand an end to the ban on cultural activities imposed due to the pandemic as frustration grows with the months-long halt to performances. Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and have remained closed despite most businesses reopening in December. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Sebadelha Julie/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Social distancing signages are seen in an empty stairway at the Theatre Sebastopol occupied by entertainment workers on March 17, 2021 in Lille, north of France. Protesters occupied three national theatres on Wednesday to demand an end to the ban on cultural activities imposed due to the pandemic as frustration grows with the months-long halt to performances. Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and have remained closed despite most businesses reopening in December. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Sebadelha Julie/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Social distancing signages are seen in an empty stairway at the Theatre Sebastopol occupied by entertainment workers on March 17, 2021 in Lille, north of France. Protesters occupied three national theatres on Wednesday to demand an end to the ban on cultural activities imposed due to the pandemic as frustration grows with the months-long halt to performances. Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and have remained closed despite most businesses reopening in December. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Sebadelha Julie/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Social distancing signages are seen in an empty stairway at the Theatre Sebastopol occupied by entertainment workers on March 17, 2021 in Lille, north of France. Protesters occupied three national theatres on Wednesday to demand an end to the ban on cultural activities imposed due to the pandemic as frustration grows with the months-long halt to performances. Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and have remained closed despite most businesses reopening in December. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Sebadelha Julie/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Theatre Sebastopol Occupied - Lille

Social distancing signages are seen in an empty stairway at the Theatre Sebastopol occupied by entertainment workers on March 17, 2021 in Lille, north of France. Protesters occupied three national theatres on Wednesday to demand an end to the ban on cultural activities imposed due to the pandemic as frustration grows with the months-long halt to performances. Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and have remained closed despite most businesses reopening in December. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Sebadelha Julie/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

Airbus unveils world's largest A380 passenger plane

Airbus unveils world's largest A380 passenger plane

TOKYO, Japan - Airbus opens its next-generation passenger plane A380 to the media at Narita airport on June 5. The world's largest passenger jet is 73 meters long and has 525 seats on two decks, which are linked by a wide stairway. (Kyodo)

The Italian Job (2003)

The Italian Job (2003)

Mini Cars Drive Down Stairway Film: The Italian Job (2003) Director: F. Gary Gray 30 May 2003 Date: 30 May 2003

The Crow:Stairway To Heaven (1998)

The Crow:Stairway To Heaven (1998)

Mark Dacascos, Sabine Karsenti Film: The Crow:Stairway To Heaven (1998) 01 April 1998 Date: 01 April 1998

The Iron Stair - film poster

The Iron Stair - film poster

A lady in a revealing dress adjusts her stocking. Film poster for 'The Iron Stair' by Leslie S Hiscott, 1933. From the famous bestseller by "Rita", starring Dorothy Boyd and Henry Kendall, produced by Julius Hagen. Date: 1933

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN KIM HUNTER, DAVID NIVEN A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN KIM HUNTER, DAVID NIVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN DAVID NIVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Date: 1946

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN DAVID NIVEN, MARIUS GORING A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH [BR 1946] aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN [US title] DAVID NIVEN, MARIUS GORING Date: 1946

Quakes hit southwestern Japan

Quakes hit southwestern Japan

An elderly earthquake evacuee sits on a stairway on April 18, 2016, as an evacuation center in the southwestern Japan town of Mashiki has become overcrowded. Concern over the health of evacuees is growing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

The Karamon Gate,Toshogu Shrine,Nikko

The Karamon Gate,Toshogu Shrine,Nikko

The shrine precincts are viewed from in front of the Shinyosha. Karamon is on the left. Kitodan (Goma-do) is in the centre back. The building on the right, Kaguraden, is the site of kagura (divine dances) by young women. The famous Nemurineko (sleeping cat) carving can be seen at the entrance of the corridor between Kitoden and Kaguraden. Behind the corridor is the approach (stairway) to the inner shrine.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number67‐38‐2]

Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The Nio Gate of Kiyomizu Temple. There are stone lanterns on both the north and the south sides of the stone stairway in front of the gate. The west gate and the three-story pagoda are visible on the far right. Built during the Muromachi Era (1392-1573), the Nio Gate had three rooms and one door with a hiwadabuki (bark-covered) roof. The statue of Kongo Rikishi is situated in the area surrounded by a kongo fence (a fence made of vertical stakes with decoratively shaped finials resembling the ritual object called kongosho used in esoteric Buddhist rites) with lattice work above it. Today, statues of guardian dogs stand in front of the stone lanterns bearing the inscription Kiyomizu Temple. Taken by Felix Beato.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number62‐29‐0]

Sapporo teen jumps to his death

Sapporo teen jumps to his death

SAPPORO, Japan - Graffiti in August 2011 at an emergency stairway of an apartment building in Sapporo, Hokkaido in northern Japan, reads, ''Fall from here and die.'' A 13-year-old boy jumped to his death from the roof of the building on Aug. 30, 2011. Police are investigating if the graffiti has anything to do with the junior high school student's suicide. (Kyodo)

worker, passengers, reconstruction, stairway, subway, Opatov station

worker, passengers, reconstruction, stairway, subway, Opatov station

Metro (subway) station Opatov during reconstruction, in Prague, Czech Republic, December 3, 2020. (CTK Photo/Martin Macak Gregor)

Bunker, stairs, handlebar, sign, forest

Bunker, stairs, handlebar, sign, forest

Concrete bunker of the Biala Gora artillery fortress on the Baltic coast. A stairway rises from the railing with a banning sign. (CTK Photo/Roman Krompolc)

Tsunami-damaged high school building opened to public

Tsunami-damaged high school building opened to public

Photo taken Dec. 3, 2016, shows sauries left on a stairway in a high school building in the northeastern Japan city of Kesennuma since it was damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The building was opened to the public the same day to show the scale of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Tsunami-damaged high school building opened to public

Tsunami-damaged high school building opened to public

Photo taken Dec. 3, 2016, shows sauries left on a stairway in a high school building in the northeastern Japan city of Kesennuma since it was damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The building was opened to the public the same day to show the scale of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

(2)Subway worker shot, seriously injured, at Shibuya Station

(2)Subway worker shot, seriously injured, at Shibuya Station

TOKYO, Japan - Police cordon off a stairway leading to Tokyo's Shibuya Station on June 23 after Tokyo Metro employee Shigeo Nishioka, 32, was shot in the abdomen there during the morning rush hour. (Kyodo)

New 'barrier-free' lifts fixed at premier's residence

New 'barrier-free' lifts fixed at premier's residence

TOKYO - Wheelchair lifts have been fixed in two places at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Photo shows Posts and Telecommunications Minister Eita Yashiro moving up on a test lift on Jan. 19 from the ground floor to the 2nd floor office of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) by using a new Canadian-made, 17-meter-long lift on the spiral stairway. Yashiro, a former TV celebrity, has been confined to a wheelchair since his serious injury in a fall from a stage in 1973.