Rick Sylvester (born April 3, 1942) is an American climber and former stuntman, most famous for his BASE jumping using skis and a Union Jack parachute from Mount Asgard in Canada for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me in July 1976.
[1][2] In 1971, he skied off the top of El Capitan in California and descended approximately 914 metres (3000 feet) by parachute.
[3] There were two more jumps made in secrecy to avoid arrest by the National Park Service; Sylvester wanted more footage shot from different angles.
[citation needed] In 1978, Sylvester, along with famed mountaineer Jim Bridwell, helped rescue approximately 40 people trapped in a ski tram in blizzard conditions.
Sylvester, Bridwell, and others set up a pulley system on-the-fly to free the survivors and lower them to safety.