abstract:Eye of the Needle was a sandstone natural arch located along the Missouri River near Fort Benton, Montana. At some point around 1997, it experienced considerable damage, though the cause of that damage is unclear.
Deserters from the Austro-Hungarian army found this made it the perfect hideout - at the head of one valley the pathway passes through the'eye' of a needleof rock, and from here foolhardy Imperial Army inspectors could be dispatched with a cosh over the head.
From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing theeyeof a needle.