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Sunday, 7 October 2012

JAMES BOND ON SKIS

James Bond didn't get where he is today without being a good skier.



This clip from On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) credits Zermatt, but there's no mention of this in the Wikipedia entry for the film.



This may be the most famous clip of all.  From the top of Murren's Shilthorn, the Escape from Piz Gloria.  Includes some impressive descending by Bond on one ski:


The scene from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) is apparently (mostly) shot in St Moritz:


For Your Eyes Only (1981), filmed in Cortina, includes the famous but tragic bobsleigh scene - it saw one of the stuntmen killed on the final day of filming.  More here.


This clip from A View To A Kill (1985) includes what may be the first appearance of snowboarding in a Bond film (after 0.46).  Although billed as "Siberia", it was shot in Iceland.


From The World Is Not Enough (1999), here's Chamonix, pretending to be the Caucasus:


Finally, from @coulson_tom, a "mash-up" bringing the whole bizarre set of scenes together:



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