另一张照片中，一个男人坐在一块突出的白垩岩上，但这块岩石已经出现了明显的裂纹，很有可能会滑落。

It is purely down to luck rather than judgment that no one has been sitting on these chunks of rock when the ground has given way. For erosion is a fact of life here.

目前还未有人坐在上面刚巧遇上岩石崩塌的情况，这不是因为判断力好，纯粹是走运，因为风化侵蚀是当地十分正常的自然现象。

‘Very often, you come here in the morning and see a great pile of chalk and rocks on the beach,’ says Molly, a volunteer in the National Trust visitor centre. ‘But with two tides a day, it gets washed away, so people don’t see it for long.’

“你早上来到这儿，很有可能会在沙滩上看见一些白垩岩粉末与石块，”英国国民托管组织游客中心的志愿者莫莉说，“只不过因为每天两次涨潮，这些石块都被海水带走了，所以人们往往看不见这些痕迹。”

And in recent years, for reasons which are not entirely clear, there has been a run of particularly hefty falls. Indeed, as Molly points out: ‘The Seven Sisters have now become eight.’

近年来，已经有数起崖壁垮塌事件发生，原因尚不清楚。并且如莫莉所说：“七姐妹悬崖现在不只是七座而是有八座悬崖了。”

That’s because one stretch of cliff has had such severe falls either side of a grassy promontory that it has now created an extra peak.

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