Contractibility of boundaries of cocompact convex sets and embeddings of limit sets

We provide sufficient conditions as to when a boundary component of a cocompact convex set in a CAT ( 0 ) {\rm{CAT}}\left(0) -space is contractible. We then use this to study when the limit set of a quasi-convex, codimension one subgroup of a negatively curved manifold group is "wild" in the boundary. The proof is based on a notion of coarse upper curvature bounds in terms of barycenters and the careful study of interpolation in geodesic metric spaces.