Mount Asgard
| Mount Asgard | ||
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 Mount Asgard in 2001 |
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| height | 2015 m | |
| location | Baffin Island , Nunavut , Canada | |
| Mountains | Arctic Cordillera | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 40 ′ 20 " N , 65 ° 16 ′ 28" W | |
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| First ascent | July 13, 1953 by Hans Weber, Jürg Marmet , Hans Röthlisberger and Fritz Hans Schwarzenbach | |
The Mount Asgard is a mountain in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Iceland , Nunavut , Canada . It is named after Asgard , the home of the gods in Norse mythology . Mount Asgard consists of two plateau peaks connected by a saddle, has a height of 2015 meters and was climbed for the first time in 1953.
It was used in July 1976 as the filming location for a ski stunt by stuntman Rick Sylvester in the James Bond film " The Spy Who Loved Me ". At the end of the opening scene, a car chase shot in the Piz Bernina area , Bond jumps over the cliff with a parachute on skis.
literature
- Fritz Hans Schwarzenbach: Baffin Island, diary of a polar expedition . ISBN 978-3-8370-5423-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - first ascent report).
Individual evidence
- ^ Mark Synnott: Baffin Island . Rocky Mountain Books Ltd, 2008, ISBN 978-1-894765-98-5 , pp. 14 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Mount Asgard in the Internet version of the English-language Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia
- ↑ Bond filming in Switzerland (1977) Swiss television archive