Can it avoid plunging into the Gorge of Eternal Peril and continue its quest for the Holy Grail?

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The rock fall happened at Jiggers Bank, a main road into the Ironbridge Gorge, overnight on Tuesday.

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It's also where you'll find England's highest waterfall - the 220ft Canonteign Falls, which cascades down a gorge into the River Teign.

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The drive takes you north from the city across the plain and through the Rawanduz Gorge before climbing into the Zagros along the British-built Hamilton Road, named after New Zealander, Archibald Hamilton.

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Denis Burakov, 27, died after the ball - called a zorb - veered off course and fell into a deep gorge in the North Caucasus.

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Heart-stopping switchbacks plummeted downwards between dark cliffs into a gorge cut by the Khunjerab River.

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But the Albula steepens quickly, and the river disappears into a dramatic ravine, forcing the train to criss-cross the gorge, creaking like a sailing ship in a full-bellied wind.

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First, the rock creases up into long slabs of concertinaed cliff before opening out into a huge granite-grey gorge, which takes any sound and echoes it into a feedback loop: shouts fade and return seconds later in irregular jumps.

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