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Rick Sylvester

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Rick Sylvester (born April 3, 1942) is an American climber and former stuntman, most famous for his BASE jumping using skis and a Union Jack parachute from Mount Asgard in Canada for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me in July 1976. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 13 relations: BASE jumping, Double (occupation), El Capitan, For Your Eyes Only (film), Greece, James Bond, Jim Bridwell, Meteora, Mount Asgard, National Park Service, Ski jumping, The Spy Who Loved Me (film), Union Jack.

BASE jumping

BASE jumping is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend safely to the ground.

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Double (occupation)

In filmmaking, a double is a person who substitutes for another actor such that the person's face is not shown.

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El Capitan

El Capitan (El Capitán) is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end.

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For Your Eyes Only (film)

For Your Eyes Only is a 1981 spy film directed by John Glen (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Albert R. Broccoli.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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Jim Bridwell

Jim Bridwell (July 29, 1944 – February 16, 2018) was an American rock climber and mountaineer, active from 1965 in Yosemite Valley, but later in Patagonia and Alaska.

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Meteora

The Meteora (ΜετΞ­ωρα) is a rock formation in the regional unit of Trikala, in Thessaly, in northwestern Greece, hosting one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, second in importance only to Mount Athos.

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Mount Asgard

Mount Asgard (α“―α•™α“‚α‘Žα•ˆα‘Žα–‘αŠα’ƒ, Sivanitirutinguak) is a twin peaked mountain with two flat-topped, cylindrical, rock towers, separated by a saddle.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp.

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The Spy Who Loved Me (film)

The Spy Who Loved Me is a 1977 spy film, the tenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions.

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Union Jack

The Union Jack or Union Flag is the de facto national flag of the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Sylvester