James Bond Ski Jump

[ski diva]

We spent part of Thanksgiving today watching "The Spy Who Loved Me," an old James Bond movie (July, 1976). It has this spectacular ski jump sequence; I thought it was so cool that I wanted to post it here.

The jump was done by Rick Sylvester, a Hollywood stuntman, off Canada's Mount Asgard. In 1973 he skied off the top of El Capitan and descended 3000' by parachute. According to the entry on Wikipedia, this was conceived as "the world's greatest ski jump." An expert skier, he spent 3 weeks learning sky diving to make this jump. He has since retired from stunt work.

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[SnowHot]

One of my all time favourite Bond Ski sequences is from "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
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[missyd]

The ski base jump is very spectacular!
The Piz Gloria skiing is ok ... I also like the rotary snow plow sequence. For me its the best 20seconds of the film!

 

[Nadine_A]

Matchsticks Productions did a spoof of that Bond stunt for Seven Sunny Days. One of my favourite Shane McConkey segments. Still so sad...

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[Severine]

Those are awesome!

Bond was really ahead of his time with that jump, eh?

 

[missyd]

The matchstick video is brilliant!!!! No silly 60ties filmtricks ....

 

[Jilly]

Well I can't resist, Canuck - John Eaves was the ski/stunt double for Roger Moore aka James Bond in the 1985 - A View to a Kill. SkiBam teaches for his mother 's and aunt's ski school!

 

[SkiBam]

Well I can't resist, Canuck - John Eaves was the ski/stunt double for Roger Moore aka James Bond in the 1985 - A View to a Kill. SkiBam teaches for his mother 's and aunt's ski school!

Sadly, not any more. The twins (now age 87) have decided to scale back operations this year. No more lessons. Too bad; it was a nice gig while it lasted.

 

[Greeley]

My cousin was one of the ski extras in Her Majesties Secret Service.