“You ski very well Mr Bond.” This sequence from THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999) was filmed in Chamonix, France. Second unit director Vic Armstrong said: “People tend to relate to skiing as being a nice and pleasurable sport, so to get some danger into it we invented these flying ski machines.” | James Bond 007

Academy Award winner Vic Armstrong has been a stunt coordinator, second unit director and stunt double on 007 films dating back to 1967. Here he shares his favourite 60 years of Bond moment. “I was involved in so many great moments during my 'Bond life”. If I had to make a choice it would be the Q-Boat chase in THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. It is so British in its setting and has a few lovely humorous moments such as Pierce straightening his tie under water. This scene plugged into some great origina

There’s going off-piste and then there’s going off-piste 007 style. This sequence from THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999) was filmed in Chamonix, France. To test the special winterised cameras they were left in the British Airways refrigerator at Heathrow over night to make sure they ran and that the batteries were up to speed. Filming wrapped, five and a half days over schedule, due to heavy snow, overcast skies, diesel freezing in the trucks, and stopping for avalanche warnings. | James Bond 007

On this day in 1999, filming started on THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH at Pinewood studios on the MI6 set. In this scene Bond (Pierce Brosnan) gets his briefing from Q (Desmond Llewelyn) – it would mark Llewelyn’s farewell from the 007 series after 17 films. | James Bond 007