You know a climb is going to be spectacular when it features in a James Bond movie. It was the case with Switzerland’s Furka Pass (issue 134), which saw Sean Connery screeching round hairpins in his Aston Martin DB5 in 1964’s Goldfinger. And it’s the case with this climb, which is the setting for a dramatic chase sequence in 2015’s Spectre, with Daniel Craig destroying an aeroplane in an attempt to rescue his love interest from Spectre’s henchmen as they bundle her into a Land Rover and speed off down the Ötztal Glacier Road.
And… action!
The town of Sölden sits in the Tyrol region of Austria, near the border with Italy. It is surrounded by Alpine peaks, the largest of which is the Wildspitze at 3,768m,
