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Luxury vintage ski sweaters

  The shiny, happy family above is the Palmer-Tomkinsons, a name more likely to be linked to Bond Street than Black Runs but the family has deep roots in the ski world.  James “Jimmy” Palmer-Tomkinson, was British Champion in 1939 and competed in the Winter Olympic Games in 1936 and 1948.      He married Swiss ski champion Doris Friedreich and together they produced four children who continued the family tradition. The sad death of their father in a training accident when he was only 36 did not deter them and eldest son Charles [...]

The Best James Bond Ski Scenes

                      The ski chase from ‘The Spy Who Loved Me – 1977 Watch the ski chase from The Spy Who Loved Me The clip shows Roger Moore bravely sporting a bright yellow one piece, flamboyantly topped and tailed with red beanie & boots.  There’s some thrilling footage here in the film’s opening sequence as  he is chased by Soviet agents in the Austrian Alps. After despatching one of his adversaries using a ski pole which fires an explosive [...]