Minutes later, Kops was standing at the edge of a 70-foot chasm called Broken Bones.
One Pole sawed through the window bars and jumped into the 30-foot chasm below.
That giant sinkhole also presents the authorities with a problem – how do you fill a 100-foot chasm?
He recovered and was shooting another movie, "Romancing the Stone" (1984), when he reinjured himself in a stunt requiring him to drive a five-ton truck off the edge of a ravine, steer it over a 100-foot chasm and crash-land on the other side.
Heading for town over the Glen Canyon Dam — trying not to look to the left, down to Lake Powell, and certainly not to the right, down the 700-foot chasm into the river — I could see that Page was more or less the same as it was when I was a child: a sprinkling of mobile homes and derelict shopping plazas in a landscape formed over 180 million years into a topography of fractured mountain ranges.
Using a line laid by a kite across the 800 feet chasm, he built a temporary suspension bridge in 1848 as the first part of his plan.
Woodward Camp, about 25 miles east of State College, a major action-sport training center, will be the site for downhill BMX, in which racers on nonmotorized bikes speed over 40-foot chasms, table tops and other obstacles.
On a high plateau where burros and jackrabbits wander an hour's drive southwest of Las Vegas, a 400-foot-deep chasm hewn from volcanic rock sits at the center of an international policy debate.
Below the floor's five layers of glass (protected from scratches by the booties) can be seen the cracked, sharp-edged rock face of the canyon's rim and a drop of thousands of feet to the chasm below.
He was standing with his back to me, gazing into a magnificent and deep canyon in Utah, and it came to me that if I were to hurl myself at him with all my force, precipitating him thousands of feet into the chasm, my troubles would be over.
Nor was the chasm, 7 feet wide and 4 feet deep, the first sinkhole in that spot.
