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| View Original: | A BASE jumper leaps into the 876-foot chasm from New River Gorge Bridge, a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long near Fayetteville in Fayette County, West Virginia LCCN2015634516.tif.tiff (8688x5792) | |||
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| Keywords: A BASE jumper leaps into the 876-foot chasm from New River Gorge Bridge, a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long near Fayetteville in Fayette County, West Virginia LCCN2015634516.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Once a year the National Park Service closes the span one of the most photographed places in West Virginia to vehicular traffic for a Bridge Day festival that includes hundreds of BASE jumps With an arch 1 700 feet long the New River Gorge Bridge was for many years the world's longest single-span arch bridge; as of 2015 it was fourth-longest When the bridge was completed in 1977 a travel challenge was solved The bridge reduced a 40-minute drive down narrow mountain roads and across one of North America's oldest rivers to less than a minute 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634516 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34500/34500a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34500 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34500 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||