The Northern Pit [O]

At the northern most point of the earth, a pit surounded by water stretches across a diameter of 10 miles, making a clear pathway from the surface down to Hell. Intense heat radiates from the hole in the earth which caused near all of the ice of the north pole to melt. Going against the laws of physics the water does not flow into the pit. Insted it seems to just stop, almost like qnd invisble wall had stopped it. Along the edge, a staircase starts, winding down the entire depth of the pit. It is the only way a human could ever escape from the Hell below and few have suceeded which is clear by the clawing mark of fingernails in the stairs, left as they were dragged back down.