BERNGARTEN, AUSTRIA

Contributed by: The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia by Steven Jay Rubin

Alpine setting in The Spy Who Loved Me teaser where James Bond (ROGER MOORE) escapes from a KGB assassination plot; kills the leader, Sergei Barsov (MICHAEL BILLINGTON); and ski jumps off a mountaintop, parachuting to safety. Later in the story we learn that Barsov is Major Anya Amasova‘s (BARBARA BACH) lover. The famous mountaintop ski’ jump was actually filmed atop the Asgard Peak on Baffin Island in Canada. Stuntman Rick Sylvester doubled 007.

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