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TORTURE ON TWO WHEELS

Extreme bike racing in steepest Wales

“SORRY KANYE, I’M BUSY”

Meet gaming’s most in-demand new star

DANIEL CRAIG What it takes to be Britain’s best secret agent

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PEAK PERFORMANCE

Behind the scenes of Air Zermatt, the helicopter rescue team saving lives high up in the Swiss Alps

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WELCOME This month’s Red Bulletin is a Bond Special edition, celebrating quintessentially British secret service agent 007 as Spectre, the 24th film in the famous franchise, gets its global release. We speak to our cover star, James Bond himself Daniel Craig, about what it takes to play the world’s most enduring hero, fearful French actress Léa Seydoux (it seems, off screen, there’s not much that doesn’t scare her), who plays his love interest, and American wrestler-turnedbaddie David Bautista. Plus there’s plenty more adrenalin-heavy action as we head to muddy Wales for the world’s toughest bike race, and the snowy Swiss Alps to witness high-altitude helicopter rescues with Air Zermatt. We hope you enjoy the issue.

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“I had to persuade Daniel to take off his underpants” BOND GIRL BÉRÉNICE MARLOHE, PAGE 52

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JAMES BOND SPECIAL

16 GOOD SHOTS! Photos of the month

Daniel Craig reveals the hard prep that went into creating Spectre, plus a word with the film’s new stars

BULLEVARD 23 CHARM SCHOOL Our guide to being the perfect gentleman

FEATURES 32 Air Zermatt

40 Daniel Craig

On heroes, role models and being Bond

72 WILD AT HEART

Is that Miley Cyrus making out with a stripper? Welcome to Cirque Le Soir, where inhibitions are left at the door

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46 The new stars of Spectre We interrogate Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista and Christoph Waltz

52 Bond girls

GO HARD OR GO HOME

We go trackside at Red Bull Hardline, as the world’s best downhill MTB riders tackle Dan Atherton’s punishing course

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The women who keep 007 on his toes

58 Red Bull Hardline

Downhill MTB doesn’t get any tougher

68 This month’s heroes

Gymnast Sam Oldham, bluesman Gary Clark Jr and games guy Sean Murray

72 Cirque Le Soir

Inside London’s raunchiest nightclub

ACTION!

INTERSTELLAR EXPERIENCE

Ever wondered what it would feel like to float in space? Star City, near Moscow, recreates the effect with a lot of water 8

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79 SEE IT. GET IT. DO IT The best travel, gadgets, entertainment, music and cars, plus how to survive sub-zero

American bluesman Gary Clark Jr found his groove by ditching music theory and jamming with the old masters

90 WATCH STYLE Timepieces fit for 007 98 MAGIC MOMENT A Dakar legend

STORY OF THE BLUES

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Writer Ric McLaughlin (right) with winner Ruaridh Cunningham

Bike racing gets brutal in Wales “It was one of the strangest bike races I’ve ever been to,” says Belfast-born bike obsessive and writer Ric McLaughlin of Red Bull Hardline, which took place on a course in Mid Wales constructed by biking legend Dan Atherton. “Downhill mountain biking is traditionally all about the individual, but the brutality of the track forced the riders into a communal effort to overcome it. The riders’ collective sense of relief at having made it to the finish was incredible.”

Check out riding at its toughest on page 58.

IN FOCUS BEHIND THE LENS

The German writer is one of the world’s leading experts on watches and a regular speaker at the biggest industry fairs. For The Red Bulletin, he picked a timepiece for every 007 mission. See his choices on page 90.

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AROUND THE WORLD

ALEX DE MORA

“Wherever I looked at Cirque Le Soir, there was something going on,” says the London-based lensman, “from fire breathers to girls taking selfies with a naked man in a baby mask.” Go inside London’s craziest club on page 72.

The Red Bulletin is available in 11 countries. This is the cover of this month’s South Korean edition, featuring baseball star Jung-ho Kang.

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Rare air: Repo (right) got to fly with the Air Zermatt helicopter rescue team

“Those guys are heroes in my eyes” TERO REPO Finnish photographer Tero Repo, who lives in Switzerland, has accompanied expeditions to the Antarctic and followed snowboarders through freezing mountain ranges in Alaska. But nothing impressed him as much as his assignment for our story about Swiss helicopter rescue team Air Zermatt: “They risk their lives every time they go on a mission.” Fly with us on page 32.

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Games developer Sean Murray shares the secrets of how he turned his dreams into reality with hotly anticipated space adventure No Man’s Sky.

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Read his blog: marcelhirscher.at

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Become a gentleman – with a little help from our guide to classic charm and style

BULLEVARD GOOD BREEDING. Gentlemen like Sam Claflin make women and their mothers happy, but for very different reasons

HUSBAND MATERIAL

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Heartthrob Sam Claflin is proof that a gentlemen gets the girl He’s the epitome of a gentleman: fine clothes with an old-school flavour, but just rough enough around the edges not to resemble his dad. It’s like he’s slipped straight out of bed and into his suit, but we still don’t doubt for a second that Hunger Games star Sam Claflin has the manners to match the threads. The smart Englishman has also understood a golden rule: dress so that the lady by your side never feels overdressed.

Which in Claflin’s case means his wife. The 29-year-old has been married to fellow actor Laura Haddock for two years.

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BULLEVARD

PATIENCE

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SHUT UP AND LISTEN Who doesn’t prefer talking about personal interests? Let the other person set the topic, listen intently and reap the rewards.

A gentleman understands the value of the long game.

Whether it’s a business deal or a date he’s dealing with, he can wait.

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GENTLEMAN

OPEN YOUR MIND To be a man of the world, get to know other men of the world – if not first hand, then from books and magazines. A gentleman need look no further than The Red Bulletin to get himself started.

Every modern man could learn from the classic gentleman. Follow this guide to become the epitome of style and class – but remember, the real art is in knowing when to break the rules

LADIES FIRST The lady comes first. Always.

In every sense of the word.

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BE CULTURED A gent doesn’t drink from the bottle. He drinks from the can.

CAN TALK

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Know your fellow gent.

A sleek facade can mask a million inner demons.

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MAY I HAVE A SIP, MA’AM?

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CHIVALRY ISN’T DEAD Hold the door open for her, help her into and out of her coat, and let her order first, too. And although your eyes may wander from time to time, make sure your girlfriend is secure in the knowledge that your feet will not follow suit.

KEEP IT CLEAN A gentleman is always freshly washed, well groomed and well dressed. If in doubt, deodorant will get you further than a wisecrack.

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A GIRL FOR BOND

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We say: give Christina Hendricks the film role she deserves How is it possible that the sexiest woman in Hollywood hasn’t yet been offered a part in a 007 film? The Mad Men actress may have appeared in a Visa advert with former Bond Pierce Brosnan when she was 18, but she’s still waiting for a role as a mysterious double agent with a suggestive first name and a gun in her bra.

A crime if ever there was one.

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Beautiful Christina Hendricks drove the Mad Men over the edge as Joan, their office manager

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU WEAR

Your style speaks louder than your Facebook posts. Here are the gentlemanly basics Beard

You’re not dressed without one.

Mobile phone Carrying it in your trousers is a crime.

FULL BEARD: Only looks good if well kept – buy a comb, pronto.

DESIGNER STUBBLE: For beginners. Use a trimmer on your beard once a week.

WALRUS ’TACHE: Only for the brave.

Don’t forget to twirl it!

Slipping numbers into your pocket is only OK if they’re written on a napkin in lipstick.

Jacket T-shirt

Bespoke: the mark of a gentleman.

BRANDS: The name of the designer is irrelevant if the top doesn’t suit you.

Nothing matters more than a decent – and that means appropriate – jacket.

The subtler the pattern, the better it will work.

David Beckham is sporty elegance personified

PRINTS: If your tee isn’t saying anything special, you can do without the print.

Shoes

NO LOGO: For classic and understated, go for monochrome.

A gentleman’s shoe collection should fit in his sports bag.

PICK OF THE BEST: Formal: Oxford brogues Autumn: Lace-up boots Day off: Sneakers The main thing: Comfort

Will Ferrell’s suit in Anchorman pushes the boundaries of taste

DAY-OFF DRESS CODE

Sportswear

THE TEAM SHIRT QUESTION Can you wear a team’s shirt without being a true fan? We say no!

Because following sport is about much more than the design of the kit.

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Pullover

A GENTLEMAN CAN RELAX, TOO No wardrobe should be without a classic sweater, whether you’re off to play sport or lounging at home.

Feel free to experiment with colour, but black and grey will go with any trousers.

Socks

NO RED CARD FOR A SPLASH OF COLOUR If you plan to show a bit of leg, colourful socks set the tone – we recommend something bright that contrasts appropriately with your outfit. But remember: length is key.

GO AGAINST THE FLOW Jeans

THE CLASSIC OF CLASSICS Everyone should own a pair of timeless straightleg blue jeans. They offer much more space than the skinny hipster variety, and baggy jeans have passed their sell-by date.

THE RED SNEAKER EFFECT It’s been proven that dressing unconventionally can raise your status. A gentleman knows the dress code, but is happy to go against it, which is why we’ll soon see David Beckham in a red suit, with his phone in his trouser pocket.

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Not too baggy!

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THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN

THE FARTER. NBA star

Dwight Howard knows how to frighten his opponents: he tweets openly about how troubled he is by flatulence.

As if there wasn’t enough hot air on the court already.

Decency and fair play reign on the field. Most of the time, anyway. But as these gentlemen can tell you, sportsmanship has a darker side, too THE SNITCH. Andy Murray reveals on live TV his Davis Cup teammate Dominic Inglot is out celebrating with his girlfriend. Just a shame his real girlfriend was waiting for him at home.

THE ANARCHIST. This July, Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton wasn’t allowed into the box for the first time. The Royal Box, that is. From which famous people watch the Wimbledon final. Hamilton turned up without a jacket and tie, couldn’t find the clothes he needed in time and went on his way. Let’s hope that’s not his chance of a knighthood gone.

THE VAMPIRE. By the

third time, Luis Suárez really should have known that a gentleman doesn’t bite off more than he can chew.

Doesn’t he get fed at home?

THE LLAMA. He would

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go on to become a gentlemanly coach, but Frank Rijkaard was the bad boy at the 1990 World Cup. He didn’t seem to like Rudi Völler’s mullet.

THE STRANGLER. In a 2011 game,

Gennaro Gattuso, then the strongman at AC Milan, went for the Tottenham coach’s throat. Then, just minutes later, he head-butted him. In Italy, they’ve been saying ‘Man descends from Gattuso’ for many years.

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THE HULK. Miguel Herrera, the Mexican national team coach, has monstrous meltdowns.

He was sacked this summer for punching and threatening a journalist.

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“That’s quite a nice little nothing you’re almost wearing” SEAN CONNERY TO JILL ST JOHN, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971)

True sex appeal requires an element of mystery. In these days of YouPorn, the gentleman prefers the tingling sensation that comes with using Tinder.

Banker: “I’m giving you the opportunity to walk out with the money, Mr Bond” Bond: “I’m giving you the opportunity to walk out with your life” PIERCE BROSNAN, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999)

Cheek to cheek with an enormous pistol – size mattered in the ’60s, too

First, a gentleman is incorruptible. Second, in the aftermath of the banking crisis, it’s time the balance of power was turned on its head.

A QUIP FOR ALL SEASONS

Felicca: “You are very suspicious, Mr Bond” Bond: “Oh, I find I live much longer that way”

WHAT DOES JAMES BOND DRINK? On average, he downs 12 units of alcohol per film.

That’s one every 10 minutes. Cheers!

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Vesper Martini

Follow Ian Fleming’s original recipe from Casino Royale: 3 measures Gordon’s Gin; 1 measure vodka; ½ measure Kina Lillet.

Shake, don't stir, and serve ice cold with a slice of lemon peel.

ROGER MOORE, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977)

The Cold War may be over, but the secret services remain as curious as ever. A gentleman never posts anything about his sex life.

Vodka

Bond's latest tipple of choice is Belvedere, a luxury rye vodka that originates from Poland. Quite right, too – for 007 to drink a Russian spirit would have a taste of high treason about it.

Beer

Not everything that Bond drinks has to be shaken. In the 2012 movie Skyfall, 007 quenches his thirst with a bottle of Heineken. A classic beer is the new Champagne, after all.

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THE LOST ART OF CHAT-UP

SEE YA!

It takes two to flirt: one to listen patiently and another to make an absolute fool of himself

When the end looms, a gentleman always has a gift ready

A playboy meets an S&M fan plus two other imagined couplings. Thought experiments involving famous threesomes

HE SAYS…

Every pick-up artist’s idol from HIMYM. “I hope you’ve got liability insurance.

You’ve made a bump in my pants”

“Come back to my place. And bring your sister with you”

ED SHEERAN

The singer-songwriter boy next door.

“Shy guys are better in bed. I read that somewhere”

“Then I know where to aim with the wrecking ball!”

“Sure, but you stay here”

“Sweet! I like cuddly toys with red fur.

Can I put my tongue in your ear?”

Her market niche? Kiddie pop to shake your ass to.

“Sounds like you need a scrap dealer”

“Hmm, OK. “You mean But only if shy guys it’s your wife are better OFF in instead of bed” my sister”

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE Monty Python will console her.

But give it to her on vinyl so she’s got something to smash.

A KERMIT PUPPET Maybe you still have a chance, like Kermit and Miss Piggy. If not, then perhaps this’ll turn into her handsome prince.

KAINRATH WRONG!

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The model dates women and dreams of men.

PLAIN JANE

The footballer with the God complex.

MR NICE GUY

MILEY CYRUS

THE PARTY GIRL

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SHE ANSWERS…

SHE IS…

THE REBEL

THE ALPHA MALE

“Hey, I enjoy a bump or two”

“Are you sure you’re really into women?”

“Sorry, I’m more into hard and heavy.

My taste in music’s a bit like that, too”

RIGHT!

ANASTASIA STEELE Ana (50 Shades of Grey) wants rough love.

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THE AIR ZERMATT RESCUE TEAM ARE DEDICATED TO SAVING LIVES IN SOME OF THE WORLD’S HIGHEST MOUNTAINS.

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An Air Zermatt mission on the Matterhorn: just seven minutes from hangar to summit

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THIN AIR

Winch training in the Swiss Alps: experienced rescue pilots can deposit a 200m-long rope onto an area the size of a towel

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An Air Zermatt medic reaches for the long line. The helicopter’s fixed rope can bear loads of up to 400kg

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most dangerous mission of mountain rescue pilot Tom Pfammatter’s career to date took place in the summer of 2005 – and all because of a windbreaker jacket.

Pfammatter, then 35, was rescuing a hiker who had fallen at the base of the Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps. When the SOS call came in, he was having dinner at the helicopter squadron hangar in Zermatt, a Swiss mountain village about 250km east of Geneva.

It was already dark as Pfammatter climbed into the cockpit of his crimson Eurocopter EC135. The emergency doctor and paramedics squeezed in behind him.

Pfammatter started the engines, then put on his night-vision goggles.

Ambulance flights in the mountains are extremely dangerous. Every gust of wind makes the helicopter shake.

Falling rocks could put the lives of the crew at risk. At night, the pilot has to manoeuvre the helicopter in the toughest terrain without any points of reference, due to the limited light. Such missions, says Pfammatter, are “uncool”.

“Just as we reached the entrance to the valley, the night-vision goggles gave up the ghost,” he recounts. “There was no moonlight at all that night, meaning THE RED BULLETIN

WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF NIGHT VISION, PFAMMATTER

Air Zermatt’s senior doctor, Axel Mann (right), and his medic look after a patient

CAN’T SEE A THING.

BUT THERE’S A PERSON FREEZING UP ON THE GLACIER that the goggles didn’t get enough residual light. All I could see was this green and black mish-mash.”

Pfammatter hovered the helicopter at the entrance to the valley. Without night vision, he couldn’t see a thing. But there was a person freezing up on the glacier.

“Then I remembered the power supply line which goes through the Rhône Valley and leads up to the glacier.”

Pfammatter switched on the onboard headlights. The beam of light was too narrow to brighten up the valley and enable him to carry on flying. But it was wide enough for him to be able to feel his way along a power cable about the thickness of his finger. Pfammatter kept the helicopter 3m above the cable, then edged his way towards the glacier,

metre by metre. The electric power line served as his guide, the helicopter headlights his mobility cane.

Thirty minutes later, the medics pulled the shivering hiker onboard.

Pfammatter turned the helicopter around, and he flew them all safely to the hospital on his last drop of fuel.

“The next day, the guy we’d rescued told us he’d wanted to take photos on the mountain pass and that his jacket, which had cost him €250, had fallen over the safety barrier. When he climbed over the barrier to fetch it, he fell. That was why we flew this mission.”

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Flight assistants at Zermatt heliport get a Bell 429 ready for take-off. Valley fog has caused delays

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CHISEL PEOPLE OUT OF THE ICE USING DRILLS FROM THE DIY STORE accident. I’m a pilot and my job is to fly the rescue team from A to B.”

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ermatt, one cold morning in March. The heliport is on a promontory at the edge of town.

Air Zermatt’s conference room, with its well-worn sofa and a narrow kitchen unit, smells of washing-up liquid and coffee.

“Mountain flying is a complex system,” explains Pfammatter, 45, who has been flying rescue missions for 20 years. “It’s not just about knowledge. Intuition and joined-up thinking are vital. And you need decades of experience for that.”

When Air Zermatt launched in 1968, its first helicopter was parked in a wooden shed, and it was in 1971 that its first rescue mission was flown off the north face of the Eiger. In 2010, Pfammatter’s colleague Daniel Aufdenblatten flew the highest-ever helicopter rescue mission – 38

7,010m up on Annapurna in Nepal. He and mountain guide Richard Lehner, who worked with him on the rescue, were presented with the Aviation Heroism award by industry publication Aviation Week.

Training to be an Air Zermatt pilot takes five years, says Pfammatter. “You start with panoramic flights around the Matterhorn, then you practise load-bearing flights: tree trunks, pipes, cows. By the time a medic puts your first injured party on the winch, you’re more experienced than most other rescue pilots anywhere in the world.”

Pfammatter can deposit a 200m-long rescue rope onto a piece of land the size of a towel and align the helicopter’s angle of flight to tufts of grass in a field. What he can’t do is make life-or-death decisions.

“At the end of a good day, you look at yourself in the mirror and you’ve saved 10 people’s lives. On a bad day, mission control tells you there are fatalities and you’re flying body bags to the mountain.”

Pfammatter has had many good days as a pilot, but also some very bad ones. He has recovered the bodies of dead children and cried in the cockpit of his helicopter.

How does one get over the very bad days?

“By running,” says Pfammatter. “Slowly at first. Then I sprint until I’m exhausted and collapse into bed. The next day, you get up and climb back into the cockpit.”

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ir Zermatt’s operational area, the Valais Alps, has 41 peaks over 4,000m high. The team flies 1,500 missions a year. If a mountaineer has an accident away from the hiking trails, the mountain guides are called in.

In the valley, Anjan Truffer’s mobile rings.

Air Zermatt’s most senior mountain guide is a giant of a man who grew up in the village and has climbed the Matterhorn 150 times. In an emergency, the helicopter lands in the garden behind Truffer’s house.

The 40-year-old is flown to the mountains armed with crampons, pitons and slings.

“I can get from the couch in my living room to the north face of the Matterhorn in seven minutes,” he explains.

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a V-shaped shaft and get stuck. Because of their body heat, they melt into the glacier.

Then they’re caught in an icy suit of armour and their temperature drops.”

If Air Zermatt has a crevasse rescue mission, they fly out generators. Rescuers are lowered into the crevasse on a rope, then chisel people out of the ice. Hilti hammer drills from the DIY store are ideal for the job. Truffer abseils into crevasses about 40 times a year. What’s been his most dangerous mission to date?

“It was in 1999 on the Theodul Glacier.

A snowboarder had crashed. As I abseiled into the crevasse, I spotted huge icicles on the sides. If you stepped on one, several tons of ice would break off. I had to work my way around them, like I was in a maze.

At one point, the shaft of light overhead vanished.” Truffer reached the unconscious man 85m below ground. “He’d hit his head against the crevasse wall. I only found him because of the blood trail.”

The mountain guide tied a triangular sling around his patient’s hips, then radioed to the surface. Colleagues gently lifted the snowboarder above ground.

The man survived the fall. He never got in touch with his rescuer.

“This job changes your view of life,” says Truffer. “You get less annoyed about everyday things. OK, so your neighbour has a bigger car, and you woke up to discover there was no milk. But once you’ve been inside a crevasse, you know what’s a real problem and what isn’t.”

The most difficult mission rescue pilot Tom Pfammatter has ever flown was on the Rhône Glacier in 2005

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There are also eight rescue medics, 15 mechanics, and a pool of 60 freelance doctors.

The squadron is based at the heliport in Zermatt.

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DEGREES was the body temperature of one man rescued by Air Zermatt’s senior doctor, Axel Mann, from a crevasse – the lowest he’s seen. “He went on to marry his nurse,” says Dr Mann.

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he office of Gerold Biner, the head of Air Zermatt, nestles beneath the roof of the hangar like a bird’s nest. Biner, a wiry man with pointy eyebrows, has been flying mountain rescue missions for 25 years. He also exports Swiss expertise to the highest ranges on the planet. Air Zermatt has been training rescue pilots in Nepal since 2010. Biner, 51, and his team flew the first pioneering practice sessions: on YouTube, you can see him hovering over the Himalayas with an oxygen flask strapped in on the seat next to him.

“Helicopters are flying at their limit above 6,000m,” Biner explains. “The air is thin. The rotor blades have less resistance. When landing, you can’t pull back up if something goes wrong. The helicopter lacks power at that height.”

Biner flew missions in the Himalayas at just under 7,000m. On Everest, he retrieved the dead bodies of two mountaineers from Camp 2 at 6,500m. He also winched five Chinese climbers to safety on Dhaulagiri, the world’s seventh-highest mountain.

Back in Zermatt, Biner gets hundreds of job applications each year. He must select pilots he can trust with his colleagues’ lives, and there’s one question he always asks: “How often did you volunteer to clean the kitchen in your last job?”

Biner knows that mountain rescuers must always be able to rely on their colleagues, after all.

To find out more, go to: air-zermatt.ch

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”BOND CAN BE A GENTLEMAN. SOMETIMES, ANYWAY” IS JAMES BOND A GOOD ROLE MODEL AND A TRUE HERO? WHAT MAKES HIM IRRESISTIBLE TO WOMEN? 007 THROUGH THE EYES OF THE MAN WHO PLAYS HIM

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IFE IS GOOD WHEN YOU’RE JAMES BOND. AT LEAST, IT SEEMS TO BE FOR DANIEL CRAIG. WHEN WE MEET HIM AT THE CORINTHIA HOTEL IN LONDON AT THE END OF TWO YEARS OF SHOOTING FOR THE LATEST 007 FILM, SPECTRE , THE 47-YEAR-OLD IS IN A GOOD MOOD, WITH A MERCURIAL SMILE, A FIRM HANDSHAKE AND A SPRING IN HIS STEP. BUT, AS CRAIG ADMITS, EVEN THE INSPIRATIONAL EFFECTS OF BEING JAMES BOND HAVE THEIR LIMITS. 42

the red bulletin: What could we learn from James Bond that would help us in our day-to-day lives? daniel craig: (Thinks for a short while) Nothing.

But James Bond is one of the most legendary movie heroes of all time.

Surely he must have a couple of inspirational personality traits?

Let’s not talk these films up as some kind of life-changing experience. Bond is what Bond does. Bond is very singleminded. He takes his own course. And that’s simple, which is great.

Would you say that you share any of those traits?

When I’m working on a film, yes. Which is to the detriment of my personal life, unfortunately. That has to go on hold.

But I have a very understanding family who know that’s all a part of it. They know that it’s all-encompassing.

Your knee is proof of that. You injured it while shooting Spectre, didn’t you?

It must have been frustrating having to sit around doing nothing.

It was a bit frustrating, yes, but you’ve got to understand that we’d been working intensively on the film for two years, and then something like that happened.

I didn’t think about my knee, just the delay the injury would cause. But then, after a couple of days, I started to see it as a blessing in disguise. It meant I had the chance to get myself really fit so that I could avoid any further knee damage.

It worked out well in the end. When filming finished, I wasn’t as beaten up as I had been after the previous Bond movie, which had really drained me.

I feel great at the moment.

Take us behind the scenes of a Bond film shoot. Is time management really the most important thing?

Just time in general. Everything has to run smoothly, which is why all the preparation for filming takes years. This time, I deliberately took time off to get involved in the script. Then, three months before we began filming, I started going to the gym five or six days a week. While we’re filming, I stick to a diet – it’s all about preventative measures, so that I don’t get ill or injured. But as you’ve

seen, of course, something unpredictable can happen anyway. There’s no way around that. When you have to run across the room 30 times for one scene and try to make it all look easy, that’s when you tend to pick up stupid injuries.

All your training has clearly paid off.

How important is Bond’s physique to the movies?

It’s an aesthetic choice. My female producer always makes sure I take off my shirt often enough.

How do you explain people’s enduring fascination with Bond?

I guess that one of the biggest reasons why the character has endured for so long is because he represents the eternal struggle between good and evil.

And it helps that the evil elements in the 007 films are so wonderfully OTT. Have you ever come across someone in real life who you thought would make a good Bond villain?

Evil people are sadists, and I hope that they are few and far between. But, yes, I have met some scary people in my lifetime. Very scary people. It’s pretty hard to say whether they were evil, though, as people who are particularly evil don’t tend to show it.

Who are these guys who even frighten Daniel Craig?

I don’t want to say. They could find me.

They know where I live. No, really, let’s change the subject.

Do you think that James Bond is a positive role model?

My own role models are people who have a moral compass. People who have the courage of their convictions: great journalists, writers, artists… You know, one of the greatest problems we face today is people’s self-awareness. It’s all about, ‘Who am I?’ instead of, ‘What am I doing?’ When I was growing up, it was all about work and what we produced.

Being self-aware is the enemy of all creativity. Because as soon as you start thinking about yourself and only yourself, you stop creating. That’s when your ego takes over. All great artists, from Picasso to Francis Bacon, have their own strong convictions and stick to them throughout their life. Neither of THE RED BULLETIN

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“DON’T CONFUSE ROLE MODELS WITH HEROES. MY HEROES ARE MY GRANDFATHERS. THEY FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR II – ONE WAS IN GERMANY, THE OTHER WITH THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN SIBERIA. THEY HATED TALKING ABOUT WHAT WAS A TERRIBLE TIME”

CRAIG ON HIS SHELF LIFE AS BOND: “IT’S ALWAYS THE SAME QUESTION: WHAT’S WORSE – LEAVING THE PARTY TOO EARLY, OR STAYING, GETTING TOTALLY PISSED AND THEN PASSING OUT ON THE FLOOR?”

those two gave a f--k what you thought of their work. They said, ‘This is what I do.’ I admire that as it takes real strength.

So the heroes of the man who plays Bond are Picasso and Bacon. That has a certain ring to it…

Don’t confuse role models with heroes.

My heroes are very personal to me. Both my grandfathers fought in World War II – one was in Germany, the other with the Royal Air Force in Siberia. But let’s not harp on about that. They hated talking about what was a terrible time. We should respect that.

What is your favourite trait of Bond’s?

Bond can be a gentleman. Sometimes, anyway. He’s a considerate person, he takes care of business, and he looks out for other people and his family. He’s someone who opens doors for people – for everyone, that is, not just women.

Speaking of women, many men admire Bond for his way with the ladies…

But let’s not forget that he’s actually a misogynist. A lot of women are drawn to him chiefly because he embodies a certain kind of danger and never sticks around for too long.

What about you? Are you the kind of guy who sticks around?

Well, I’ve been married for four years.

Bond has actually become rather more chivalrous in the most recent films, hasn’t he?

That’s because we’ve surrounded him with very strong women who have no problem putting him in his place.

And this time you’ve gone one better, showing 007 succumbing to the charms of an older woman.

I think you mean the charms of a woman his own age. We’re talking about Monica Bellucci, for heaven’s sake. When someone like that wants to be a Bond girl, you just count yourself lucky!

There’s another Bond lesson for you on the horizon, too…

Which is?

Deciding when to hand over the 007 baton to a successor.

Yes, it’s always the same question: which is worse – leaving the party too early, or staying, getting totally pissed and then passing out on the floor?

And how would you answer that tricky question?

I still don’t know. What I need right now is to stop working, relax and get back to normal life. There’s nothing unusual about that. It’s really horrible not seeing your family for weeks at a time. There’s one thing I actually find more exciting than Bond at the moment: going home.

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he red bulletin: Some of your elder relatives are respected industry figures in French cinema, and now you’re an established film star yourself. Was there any question of you gaining an unfair advantage? léa seydoux: No, because I’ve always done my own thing. It was my personal choice to become an actress.

I’m very independent. No doors were opened for me.

Where did the desire to be an actress come from?

I was an outsider, always on my own. I was teased by the other kids when I was young because I was badly dressed, an ugly duckling. Later, when I was 18, I went on a sort of journey of self-discovery.

A friend of mine was an actor and I liked the life he led.

So I decided to give it a go, even though I was scared.

Why was that?

I’m afraid of a lot of things, like heights. And I hate flying.

We shot part of the Bond film

in the desert in Morocco and I was terrified because it was just emptiness and heat.

But as an actress, you must constantly be confronted with that sort of thing. Are you in the wrong job?

Absolutely not. When I’m working, I forget all about my fears, because I’m in the here and now.

Being an actress isn’t just about acting, though. There are also auditions and all the networking…

And actually that’s the tough part. Before I got the part of

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The 30-year-old French actress was nervous before her Spectre audition.

So she had a beer. Then she forgot her lines. But she still won the part

Madeleine Swann in Spectre, I met up with the director, but I was so nervous that I had a beer beforehand, which meant I lost my composure.

I couldn’t remember my lines and then I started blushing…

I was so embarrassed that I screwed the whole thing up.

But you still got the part.

So you became a Bond girl while you were drunk?

That would be a good story, but sorry, no, I didn’t even finish the beer.

What were your experiences shooting the film – other

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than your nightmare in the desert, obviously…

That wasn’t the scariest part.

The worst experience was going up into the Tyrolean Alps – I’m afraid of heights, remember. I had to do stunts, including an 8m jump. Plus, I was nervous about acting in English and shooting with Daniel Craig, who I’d never met. But that’s always the way. As soon as the camera starts rolling, everything’s OK. Haven’t you ever wanted to do something a bit less nerve-racking?

Never. I may be afraid of everything, but I like what I do. In a way, I’m addicted to the fear. Because as soon as I’ve done something I’m afraid of, I feel great. Without that, there would be something missing from my life.

Do you have a tip for people who are plagued by anxiety?

Not everyone can become an actor to help them conquer their fears…

But everyone can find the right thing for them. The most important thing is to believe in yourself. Don’t be afraid of being afraid. Try to get close to your fear and embrace it.

That’s my advice. It’s exciting to conquer your demons. It makes you feel very strong.

So you feel stronger because of your fears?

Yes, I guess you could put it that way. My fear has taught me that I’m the only person I can fully count on.

Is there a fear that you just can’t conquer?

The fear of flying. It just doesn’t get any easier. I take a Xanax before every flight.

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In private, Seydoux – pictured as Belle in Beauty And The Beast – battles crippling fears, but she says that overcoming them gives her a strength that spurs her on

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B A U T I S T A, DAVE

He’s a former wrestling world champion and, as villainous henchman Mr Hinx, he wants to annihilate Bond. But in real life, says the 46-year-old actor, he’s actually the shy type

THIS IS WHAT A SHY MAN LOOKS LIKE. BUT WRESTLING HELPS, SAYS BOND VILLAIN DAVE BAUTISTA

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he red bulletin: Are you an adrenalin junkie? dave bautista: Why do you ask?

You have the physique of a cyborg warrior and in Spectre you chase 007 in a Jaguar C-X75…

I actually think of my character in Spectre as elegant and sophisticated.

Sophisticated?

Yes. For example, I was very careful with the Jaguar, because I definitely didn’t want to damage it.

At 46, you’re a six-time wrestling world champion, but quite a shy guy. That’s an interesting combination.

Let me tell you something…

When I was wrestling, I had butterflies in my stomach every time I walked through those curtains. I was a very shy kid, and I’m still shy.

So why did you put yourself through the experience?

Out of desperation. Wrestling was my last shot to really do something incredible with my life. I grew up in the ghetto in Washington, DC, surrounded by crime and violence. I was a problem child, didn’t do well at school, and spent most of my 20s working in nightclubs.

That would have continued, but when I was almost 30, I had two kids and decided that I wanted a future for them. It changed everything.

For their sakes, I learned how to fight for a stable future.

How? I thought about what I could be really good at, if I put my mind to it. That’s how I got into wrestling.

Why wrestling?

It grew out of my experience in the gym. The gym was my sanctuary. It was a place where I came into contact almost exclusively with positive people. And lifting weights made me feel better about myself. That would be my advice to anyone: find something you are passionate about and then work at it with the utmost perseverance.

You have to move out of your comfort zone.

So when did you get your big breakthrough?

It took a while to happen.

I was a terrible wrestler in the beginning. But I’m a stubborn person and eventually I learnt how to overcome my shyness.

I’m willing to embarrass myself. I’m prepared to take risks. I want to achieve something outstanding.

Your method clearly worked.

Not only are you a wrestling world champion, you’re now a movie star, too.

Yes, but I’m still terrified when I have to audition for parts. I look like a gorilla, but I want other people to see what I really am: a serious actor.

Who in your life already sees you as you really are?

My mother, definitely.

I inherited my strong will and kind heart from her.

And my manager, who’s also

my best friend. Whenever I’ve had a dream I wanted to pursue and everyone else has told me it’s impossible, he’s always been the one who’s said to me, “You can do it.”

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Appetite for destruction: Bautista as Drax the Destroyer in Guardians Of The Galaxy

WALTZ ON WALTZ: “I’M A STAUNCH PROPONENT OF SOLDIERING ON”

WA LT Z, CHRISTOPH

As Franz Oberhauser, the two-time Oscar winner makes life hard for 007. And Waltz, 59, knows a thing or two about the hard life

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he red bulletin: What’s the primary role of a Bond villain? christoph waltz: To give Bond the chance to be a hero.

If it weren’t for the villain, Bond could merely stay at home and enjoy life.

It’s the villain who sets the drama in motion.

Do such adversaries exist in real life?

Absolutely, but don’t forget the importance of different opinions. Life would be unbearable if everyone agreed on everything. Unbearable!

The idea that we have to even out all our differences in order to achieve unity is hokum.

We don’t all have to be alike and of the same opinion.

We simply have to act with decency and deal reasonably with our differences.

You know how it is when you think you’ve done everything right, but the other person thinks differently. How do you deal with that?

That’s what this job is all about. Otherwise, anyone could do it. Anyone can act, but not everyone can repeat things while altering certain nuances, working with real precision. With some directors, such fine-tuning can try your patience, but they demand that precisely because they have so much experience and perception.

That’s what makes them the masters of their craft.

What attitude do you need to reach that level?

First of all, you’ve got to do your job right. Most people tend to forget that nowadays.

All that matters to them is success. They want to be – not become – movie and TV stars.

Of course, that makes for incredible disappointment, because it’s not what the job is about. It used to be about finding a shape for the content – or, if there was no content, to find one that you could give shape to. I’m very much of that school.

Does quality prevail?

Quality needs the opportunity to prevail. If the opportunity doesn’t arrive, quality does you a fat lot of good.

It took years for you to get the opportunity, didn’t it?

And then it becomes a matter of tenacity. In the early years of my career, I was doing insanely well, but then there was a miserably long stretch full of mediocre projects. It became so frustrating that I began to question everything.

But, at the same time, you’ve got to invest a lot of your means to really do things right. I don’t just mean intensity and concentration, but also time. If you want to master a craft like this, 30 years is nothing.

Why did you decide to stick with acting?

When you’re facing practical constraints, you don’t ask yourself that question. You simply have to carry on. I’m

a staunch proponent of soldiering on, even when you’re at the highest level.

By practical constraints, do you mean taking care of your family?

Of course. If I happen to be in Germany and turn on the TV, I see all this unspeakable stuff starring people who are possibly promising and talented. What are they supposed to do? They have to earn their living.

How did you get beyond that stage?

I got lucky. Nothing more.

Early on in my career, I had an appointment with a wellknown Broadway producer.

She told me straight away, “I can tell by looking at you that you’re a fantastic actor.

But let me tell you: people don’t give a s--t. The only thing that matters is who you know and who you can meet.” I’ve only been able to meet whoever I want since Inglourious Basterds.

How do you get professional satisfaction before that? In the work itself?

Yes. Are there other ways to compensate for that?

I’m afraid we won’t be able to reduce this to digestible soundbites. It’s different for everyone, and it depends on the day. There are no hard and fast rules like the glossy magazines would have you believe. There’s only one thing that helps: to carry on!

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Breakthrough: Waltz’s performance as Colonel Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds won him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor

Giving a good guy a go: as dentist-turned-bounty hunter Dr King Schultz in Django Unchained, his second Oscar-winning role

IF IT WEREN’T FOR HIS WOMEN, 007 WOULD BE JUST A NUMBER IN A BESPOKE SUIT. BOND’S PLAYMATES BRING OUT HIS HUMAN SIDE – THOUGH THEY’D DO WELL TO REMEMBER THAT HE’S ONLY TRULY LOYAL TO THE QUEEN

THE TRAGIC BEAUTY In Skyfall (2012), Bérénice Marlohe plays Sévérine, a woman as captivating as she is tragic, too beautiful not to be kissed and yet not smart enough to survive the first half of the film.

Marlohe herself, however, brims with self-confidence.

About the legendary sex scene in the shower, she says: “Daniel’s so shy, I had to persuade him to take off his underpants.”

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THE ONE Vesper Lynd, played by Eva Green, is one of the few people to see what’s beneath the thick skin of modern-day James Bond: a chip implant and a whole lot of heart. In Casino Royale (2006), the movie version of the very first Bond novel, Daniel Craig’s 007 is even willing to give up his life as a secret agent for her.

But it all turns sour. She ends up being blackmailed, lies to and steals from him, rejects his offers of help, and comes to a sticky end. After Bond sees Lynd drown in the lift of a flooded building in Venice, he musters some touching words: “The job’s done. The bitch is dead.”

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THE ASSASSIN Xenia Onatopp, the KGB killer played by Famke Janssen in GoldenEye (1995), has a penchant for committing murder while making love. Bond himself barely manages to escape the torture of her ice-cold dominance and red-hot kisses.

That said, if ever 007 was going to give in, this would probably be why.

THE SPOUSE The name’s Bond, Teresa Bond. Only one woman ever got to say those words. In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), Diana Rigg manages to drag George Lazenby up the aisle, but when the couple drive off on honeymoon, their happy day is ruined by a mix-up over UK road laws. Wicked Irma Bunt, assistant to bad guy Blofeld, doesn’t realise the steering wheel on a British-made Aston Martin is on the right-hand side, so her bullet for Bond hits the wrong head.

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In The World Is Not Enough (1999), Sophie Marceau plays Elektra King, the first female Bond supervillain. Disguised as a millionaire’s harmless daughter with Stockholm syndrome, King conducts a campaign of revenge – for being abducted by terrorists, rejected by 007 and betrayed by her father. She ends up fooling both Bond and the bad guys, but ultimately she’s deluding herself.

THE ORIGINAL Ursula Andress emerges from the waves in the very first James Bond film, Dr No (1962), as the marvellous Honey Ryder. Her sharpest weapons are a knife, a white bikini and a desire to break the rules. This is the rebirth of Venus, the Goddess of Love, in the shape of the Bond girl – quick-witted, emancipated and interminably sexy.

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THE AIRHEAD In The Man With The Golden Gun (1974), we mostly see Britt Ekland in her bikini. The pouting blonde may be named Mary Goodnight, but her liaisons with Roger Moore are anything but intimate. Just as they are about to make love, he shuts her in the closet when Bond girl #2, Andrea Anders (Maud Adams), comes knocking. As one dozes off among his jackets, Bond blithely has sex with the other. Goodnight almost kills Bond when she unwittingly pushes a red button with her backside and zaps a Pacific island into oblivion.

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THE FORCE OF NATURE

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Bond’s creator loved to give his female characters playful names. In Goldfinger (1964), Honor Blackman has the finest name of any Bond girl to date: Pussy Galore. The personal pilot of supervillain Goldfinger, she is the first female to floor OO7 with a judo move. Despite hints that Galore prefers women, naturally she proves powerless to resist the suave agent’s charms, too.

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THE BAD GIRL TURNED GOOD Maud Adams graduated from secondary Bond girl Andrea Anders in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) to the eponymous female lead in Octopussy (1983). A circus director and Fabergé egg smuggler, Octavia Charlotte Smythe got her nickname from her father, who studies octopi.

Like so many bad girls in the Bond universe, Octopussy has her soul saved by 007 – and inevitably ends up in his bed.

THE TOUGHIE Unlike most Bond girls, Halle Berry was already a wellknown movie star before she played Giacinta “Jinx” Johnson.

Berry’s legendary first scene in Die Another Day (2002) is a homage to the first Bond film in which, like Honey Ryder 40 years earlier, she emerges from the water in her bikini.

But when the film’s director, Lee Tamahori, told her to be “sexier” while filming the scene, he got a curt reply: “This is all the sexy I got. I’m gonna get a hip displacement if I try and make myself any sexier!”

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eece Wilson is muddy and tired, his heart thumping in his chest.

“I’m getting used to it now,” he says, managing a smile. “It actually feels like I’m riding as opposed to just holding on.” Wilson, just 19 and fresh from his first full season of pro-level downhill racing, has never seen anything like the Red Bull Hardline track, which clings to the almost vertical hillside of the Dyfi Valley in Mid Wales. It’s a downhill mountain-bike race free from the rules and regulations of the mainstay UCI MTB World Cup series. Here, almost anything goes. Common sense has been suspended. Wilson is happy to have survived the first day’s practice, but he and the other 12 invited riders know the real test – race day – still lies ahead.

Hardline is the brainchild of Dan Atherton, a top-level racer turned trail builder who has transformed his backyard

“The jump that Dan crashed on was the most daunting. They changed it, but I saw him have that massive crash. It’s so technical and genuinely scary” Joe Smith

into one of the toughest bike tests there is. While shovel-wielders the world over smooth and sculpt in search of the elusive ‘flow’, Atherton has created something more ambitious and brutal: a track that will push him and his superstar siblings Gee and Rachel, both UCI World Champions, to the limits of what’s possible on a bike.

For Atherton, the project is about pushing not only his family’s riding limits, but what’s accepted as achievable in the sport. However, widening the boundaries of bike racing has come at a cost: as the ‘lucky’ few invited riders have been trying out the Hardline track, Atherton has been notable by his absence. The first victim of his own punishing creation, he’s in a Manchester hospital having an operation on his shoulder after overcooking things and jettisoning his bike mid-air while testing one of the jumps. Not exactly the most encouraging news for the riders about to take on this beast themselves.

Hardline made headlines at last year’s inaugural event for its impossibly big road-gap jump and the punishing terrain,

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“I did one full run yesterday and it was awesome. They built it all in the last six weeks and I just had to turn up and smash it all. It was pretty intimidating turning up knowing what was going to be here” Gee Atherton and this year Atherton and his team have raised the level a couple more notches.

The course is a rolling horror show of highspeed jumps, drops and gaps punctuated by steep rock ledges and bordered by hefty Welsh pine. The morning’s rain has coated it all in mud for good measure.

Despite the unpredictable September weather and remote location, hundreds of spectators have made the trek to watch today’s qualifying action. Tomorrow, the race of the year will rank its world-class riders according to their ability to conquer this unique test of skill and nerve.

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An injured Dan Atherton shares words with his brother, Gee. Below: Joe Smith took second place

contact signals his success. His brakes give a high-pitched squeal as he carves through the arching turn below. The crowd, open-mouthed, show their relief.

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pectators and crew gather on a muddy forest road towards the end of the track as a low-flying RAF jet lets out a roar on its way to a nearby base. All eyes on are one imposing wooden structure.

Supported by an assortment of telegraph pole sections, the take-off point for the road-gap jump sits 18m from the landing, which is some 9m below on the other side of the road. It looks impossible, verging on the ridiculous. In this race, blind faith plays as big a part as skill.

The tell-tale rumble of rubber on wooden slats heralds the moment the crowd have been waiting for. A marshal’s whistle indicates that the first rider is set to take the plunge. Joe Smith – a Hardline veteran, having ridden last year – rolls into view. Everything goes quiet. There’s an almost audible collective intake of breath accompanied by the soft whirring of Smith’s rear wheel. The 25-year-old Welshman hangs in the air for an unfeasibly long time, then, just as he vanishes from sight below the road, the dull thwack of

The bikes at Hardline took a real pounding, resulting in everything from burst tyres to snapped frames

“I had a massive crash. I can’t really remember it, but I got up and did it again straight away. You don’t want to be going into a race run knowing that you’ve just had a big crash on a certain jump” Joe Smith

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“Everyone wants to beat each other, but at the same time we’re going to be up against it just trying to beat the course!” Reece Wilson “Some of the guys have been retching with nerves,” says Wilson. “The mood in the camp is definitely quieter today.

Breakfast was a lot harder to get down this morning. It’s becoming a reality now; we’re here, it’s the last day. I told myself that I wouldn’t be fussed about racing it, I’d just ride it and get down. But we’re all racers at heart and...” he trails off, eyes locked on his Trek bike. His 26-year-old teammate, Ruaridh Cunningham, stands close by, fiddling with the tape holding his shoulder in place after clipping a tree in mid-air the day before.

T Above: There’s no time to admire the amazing views of the Dyfi Valley.

Below, right: Graham Kerr, Ruaridh Cunningham and Adam Brayton watch for times

he sun stays out and the wind dips long enough for the riders to get in their practice runs. They pile into the Jeep vehicles that will take them to the start line, knowing their journey back down will be quicker, but rather less comfortable.

Smith, second down the hill to avoid watching other riders do battle before him, makes it to the finish. He rolls through the steadily growing crowd and back to his pit, his bike caked in thick, claggy mud. “He’s not too dirty though, which is a good sign,” jokes his mechanic, Owen.

Smith pulls off his goggles and hands Owen his bike. “Could you give it a wash, please,” he says. “And I’ve cracked the mudguard.” Smith has had a crash, but only a small one by Hardline standards.

He’s fared well compared with many of his rivals – on the other side of the tented pit area, bikes are appearing in states of

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manner, has travelled the furthest of any of the riders. But today he’s been reduced to a spectator after a crash in practice.

“As a racer, it doesn’t get much worse than watching something that you want to be a part of,” he says. “Pretty much any track you go to after this will feel easy.

This is intimidating. It’s the track you’re competing against, not the other riders.”

One section seems to be causing the most worry among riders. The Renegade Step-up is a steep ramp with a landing, some 25m away, that’s higher than the takeoff point. There’s absolutely no room for error – you make the gap or face a brutal drop to the hard Welsh ground.

The changeable weather has left the Renegade without so much as a tyre mark. Even in this lawless environment, it may prove too extreme. During his full run in practice yesterday, Gee swerved the Renegade. If the racers are trying to beat the track, the track is still winning.

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“I was completely out of breath by the end of it. It was the adrenalin.

I’m happy to have done a full run without stopping” Craig Evans

disrepair, ranging from broken chainrings to snapped frames. The mechanics scratch their heads, looking bemused. As the mud is blasted off by pressure washers, the scale of the damage becomes clearer.

“This is one of the mad things,” says Wilson, watching one of the teams busily strip down two broken bikes and attempt to craft one working machine that’ll give him a final run before practice ends. “There are loads of bikes from so many different brands here and they’re all breaking. None of them can cope with the demands of this track.”

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Above: The Hardline course is littered with hazards, both natural and Atherton-made.

Below: Ruaridh Cunningham (right) and Joe Smith celebrate first and second place

BMX-style hip jump that got me. It wasn’t massive, it was just technical. I’d become a bit blasé, jumping everything as I made my way down the track, so I wasn’t really thinking too much about my set-up.

I should have had more air in my back tyre and it just blew out on the way up that jump – and here I am!”

Atherton settles gingerly into a folding chair and the racing begins. Through a chink in the tree line, the crowd at the finish arena can just about make out the riders as they plummet over the road gap. Although most riders suffer at least one crash on their way down, they are reaching the finish line. Second man down Adam Brayton sails over the final jump, taking a hand off the bar to punch the air in celebration. His time is virtually irrelevant – he’s celebrating survival.

Cunningham emerges into view and stops the clock an incredible 17 seconds quicker than the leader. Despite the sensational margin, his is a muted celebration and the Scot puffs out his cheeks – the course has clearly taken everything out of him. He and the crowd wait to see if he’s done enough. One by one, riders fail to beat his time, and when home favourite Gee has his rear tyre blown off, wrapping it around the back end of his GT, it becomes clear that the Hardline trophy belongs to Cunningham.

“About 30 seconds in, I smashed my foot into a stump,” says a champagnesodden Cunningham. “But I just blanked it out and focused on putting it all together. The big thing is that we’re all here and safe. I haven’t got any elation out of winning yet, just relief that it’s over! It’s pushed me harder than anything before.

But the sport needs more of this. It’s how we’ll progress. We need to be here.”

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“WINNING IS ALL ABOUT HOLDING YOUR NERVE” SAM OLDHAM The Olympic gymnast is at his

physical peak, but, as he explains, it’s mental strength that keeps him on the podium

the red bulletin: You’ve got a big year coming up – how’s the training going? sam oldham: It’s going well.

I’m working on getting every little dent out of my routines.

I’m a perfectionist – I train for six to seven hours a day and I’m very critical of myself.

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Winning a medal can come down to pointing your toe in one split second. You’ve got to fight for your place.

How did you cope with a major injury last year?

It was incredibly tough. The problem for me was the flexibility in my ankle, and the only thing that was going to make it better was patience, which is something I struggle with. But now I’m in a great place going into the World Championships. Originally, I was told it could be a careerthreatening injury, but now my ankle is about 90 per cent

able to hang on the high bar, being powerful on the vault and technical on the pommel horse. It’s my only aim.

Training is a full-time job for you – do you ever have those days when you just don’t want to go to work?

Yeah, without a doubt. It can be hard work, but I think my best attribute is my ability to endure that. Getting up and going training in the morning is tough, but I know the extra commitment will pay off and give me that edge. You’ve got to keep the end goal in your head at all times. Shortterm goals leading to the end goal are key, too – otherwise, it becomes all too easy to sack off the gym for a day.

“SHORT-TERM GOALS LEADING TO THE END GOAL ARE KEY – OTHERWISE, IT BECOMES ALL TOO EASY TO SACK OFF THE GYM” back to where it was. I’ve learnt a lot from the experience.

How important is mental strength to your success?

When I’m competing at a major event, I’m in the best shape I can be, doing routines I’ve done hundreds of times.

The question is whether I can hold my nerve, stay in the zone and not think about the outcome. Winning is about who can perform best under pressure. It really is 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental.

my best opportunity to win an individual medal.

Will you be focusing on one discipline for a better chance of an individual medal?

For me, it’s always been about the all-round competition.

In my view, being the allround Olympic champion is one of the greatest feats you can achieve in sport. I see it as the ultimate test and I’ve always loved the challenge of finding that balance between being strong on rings, being

Does that principle apply no matter what your job is?

As long as you enjoy what you do, or what your job enables you to do. It’s very difficult to find the drive to work hard without that. It might sound cheesy, but there’s still that little seven-year-old kid in me who walked into a gym and fell in love with throwing himself around in the air.

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It just happened to be on home soil, too, as the young gymnast played an integral part in the British men’s team storming to a bronze-winning finish at London 2012. With the World Championships in Glasgow this month and the 2016 Olympics in Rio on the horizon, all bets are on the Nottinghamshire lad scooping an individual medal or two. It hasn’t been plain sailing since London, though, with a serious ankle injury last year almost derailing the 22year-old’s Olympic bid before it had started. Incredibly, despite some serious setbacks, he’s now back on track. It’s a feat, Oldham says, that’s down to mental muscle as much as physical strength.

Is that kind of pressure tough to deal with?

It doesn’t come easily – I’ve had to train myself. But it’s part of why I get up in the morning. I need to put myself in high-pressure situations, even on a small scale, to push me on and help me to prepare.

Have your experiences at London 2012 prepared you for Rio 2016?

I’m so proud and happy that I got to compete in a home Olympics, but Brazil will be very different. I’ll be at a completely different point in my career. In London, I was the baby on the team and there was no expectation on my shoulders; in Rio, I’ll be hitting my peak, and I’ll get

Early kick-off: at the age of eight, Sam was playing football at Notts County’s youth academy and caught the eye of scouts from Nottingham Forest and Derby County

Bluesman Gary Clark Jr, 31, isn’t a fan of music lessons

“I’M PROUD TO BE A NERD” SEAN MURRAY The games developer has brought

W “FORGET THE TEXTBOOKS” GARY CLARK JR Eric Clapton named him the best

guitarist of his generation, and Obama is a fan, but this American virtuoso can’t read music

the red bulletin: Is it true that you’ve never had a single music lesson in your life? gary clark jr: It’s true. I started teaching myself to play guitar when I was 12. Even now, I still can’t read music.

Is that a problem?

I don’t think so. Classical education can get in the way of creativity sometimes. Forget the textbooks. I actually had an opportunity to go to university and study, but I decided not to, because I knew it wasn’t the path for me.

How did you find your own style?

I learn things in life when I jump right into the fire. When I was a teenager, instead of just swotting up on music theory at home, I would take my guitar along to clubs and jam on stage with old blues musicians. It was tough in the beginning, but it got me hooked. I worked through it and got people’s attention. Florian Obkircher His new album The Story Of Sonny Boy Slim is out now. garyclarkjr.com

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hile growing up on his parents’ ranch in the Australian Outback, Sean Murray would gaze up at the night sky and dream of space exploration. These days, the 34-year-old games developer has the likes of Stephen Spielberg and Kanye West queuing up to get their hands on No Man’s Sky, his epic and insanely ambitious video game in which players explore a galaxy made up of 18 quintillion planets.

It was created by a core of just four programmers at Murray’s indie label, Hello Games, based in Guildford, Surrey. But, along the way, the team had to endure devastating floods, sleepless nights and the weight of expectation of millions of gamers worldwide.

the red bulletin: No Man’s Sky has been more than three years in the making. How personal is this project to you? sean murray: As a kid, I always dreamt of going into space. I would imagine what it would be like landing on these strange, alien worlds.

This game is those dreams brought to life. I never made it as an astronaut, so I had to find another way. This is the next best thing.

How would you sum up the appeal of No Man’s Sky? Our sun will have burnt out by the time it takes you to visit every planet in the

game! It feels like we’re releasing an experiment.

We don’t know if players will cluster in one space or spread out evenly across the galaxy. I like the fact they can express themselves in the game, rather than just following a script.

Your booth at mega games convention E3 in LA in June was like an A-list party.

How did that come about?

It was crazy. Stephen Spielberg’s production team got in touch to see if he could look at the game, and he said it was right up his street.

Then Kanye West wanted to meet us, but we had to stand him up because Elon Musk [billionaire CEO of aerospace company SpaceX] invited us on a tour of his rocket factory.

So, is it finally cool to work in the games industry?

Friends still give me a hard time about it. At various stages in my life, I’ve become a little bit embarrassed or defensive about my hobby, but now I’m not ashamed of being labelled a nerd.

You’ve faced many hurdles in the process. How have these affected the team?

When the office flooded at Christmas in 2013, we lost all our equipment and a lot of work. But we look back on it fondly because it brought us all together. Sometimes I wish we were rich and had loads of people working on the game, but most of the time I’m happy it’s such a small, focused team. We have each other’s backs.

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Sky high: Sean Murray’s epic adventure is one of the most eagerly anticipated titles in the gaming world right now

FIRE BREATHERS. BURLESQUE LADIES. MILEY CYRUS SMOOCHING WITH A STRIPPER DRESSED AS A BABY. WELCOME TO LONDON’S CIRQUE LE SOIR, THE CLUB WHERE YOU LEAVE YOUR INHIBITIONS AT THE DOOR WORDS: FLORIAN OBKIRCHER

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rom the outside, Cirque Le Soir looks inconspicuous. There’s no sign or lettering of any kind on the black metal door, tucked between a Chinese restaurant and an office building. And that’s just as it should be, says the club’s co-owner, Tom Burg.

Because the nocturnal goings-on at Cirque Le Soir are not for casual passers-by, or revellers of a sensitive nature. All those who enter must be prepared for what’s behind the door – namely London’s wildest and most indecent nightclub.

A 7ft-tall clown in a black and white striped suit greets new arrivals with the words, “Welcome to Wonderland,” then you descend a narrow staircase lined with distorting mirrors to reach the main area. Two topless fire-breathing ladies are writhing around on the stage. To their left, a Viking in a leopard-skin cape is thrusting a sword down his throat. On the other side of the stage, a bearded cheerleader is dancing with a huge baby with a grotesque face. At the bar, a tattoo-covered waitress in sexy underwear hands out Champagne to partygoers. Her colleagues barge their way through the jubilant, dancing crowd, carrying metal buckets full of ice and magnum bottles of vodka.

The Cirque Le Soir experience is 1920s Berlin burlesque club meets Alice In Wonderland; Studio 54 gatecrashed by a circus freak show. “That ambivalence is the appeal,” says Burg. “You can experience whatever you want in our club, except boredom.” Since opening in 2009, the venue has won numerous trophies at the London Bar Awards – including, this year, Best Club – and its clientele includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Scherzinger, Rihanna and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Because they all know Cirque Le Soir is a portal to another reality, to a decadent parallel world where visitors forget their everyday lives and take on another personality. Here, six regulars tell us about their experiences at the club.

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THE GREAT GORDO GAMSBY, 30, SWORD SWALLOWER “The best part of my performance is just before I stick the blade in my mouth and hang the helium canister on my tongue. That’s the moment when the people watching realise this is no magic trick. They shriek, they close their eyes, but then they always end up watching, because my show arouses their sadistic streak and they don’t understand what’s going on.

Actually, the technique for sword swallowing is very easy to explain. You have to learn to control the oesophagus muscles, and that takes years of practice. Because if you end up with the sword stuck in your throat, there’s no point in calling an ambulance.”

CYNTH ICORN, 24, PERFORMANCE ARTIST “By day, I get paid to whip men in my job as a fetish model; by night, you’ll find me dancing in a latex suit at Cirque Le Soir. And although the work I do at the club is more innocent than my daytime photo sessions, I find the atmosphere here more surreal. After my performance, I’ll go backstage and see a dwarf massaging two bearded cheerleaders.

Next to them, there will be a belly dancer polishing her machine gun. And yet it all seems like the most natural thing in the world.

Clubgoers who come to CLS might feel as if they’ve entered a whole different world, but when I’m here, it just feels like I’m with my people. This club gives freaks like me a home.”

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“THE MOMENT THAT THE PERFORMANCES BEGIN AT CIRQUE LE SOIR, THE CLUB IS TRANSFORMED INTO AN ADULT DISNEYLAND”

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NATALIE (LEFT), 24, ACCOUNTANT “For five days a week, I’m stuck in a dull, openplan office, but I’ll be bubbling with excitement about Friday night and that moment at 1am when the performances begin at CLS and the club is transformed into an adult Disneyland.

You might have female dancers dressed in bondage gear whipping you from the stage, or topless nuns breathing flames just past your face. Even if you’re a regular at the club, you never know what to expect. In that way, a night at CLS is like a weird dream – you’ve got no control over it and you wake up baffled the next morning. But then you see the whip marks on your arm and you know it was all real.”

“STARS FEEL SAFE AT CIRQUE LE SOIR BECAUSE THEY DON’T STAND OUT AMONG ALL THE ODDBALLS”

In the back room, clubgoers can splash around in the plastic ball pool (above), play beer pong, and have their fortune told by a fairground machine

TOMMY, 26, MAKE-UP ARTIST “I’ve been a regular ever since I discovered the club three years ago. It gets you hooked because you’re constantly discovering new things about yourself. Before I started coming to CLS, I could never have imagined that the best feeling on Earth would be dancing on a bar with four snakes creeping their way up your body. I started working here a year ago – I went from being an innocent English student from the countryside to working as a make-up artist at the craziest club in London. I give the clubgoers a new identity for the night in my make-up corner. A mask of neon mascara and glitter helps them discard their inhibitions and forget their everyday lives.”

US house stars LMFAO (right) have been regulars at Cirque Le Soir since its opening

SHAHARA, 30, SNAKE CHARMER “When I roam around the club with my snakes around my neck, it’s not unusual for some people to try to get away from me in a panic – especially when I’m showing off Shiva,who’s a 4m-long albino python weighing 48kg. But most are curious and want to have a photograph taken with us. You even get that response from people who are usually terrified of snakes, because they embrace the unknown when they come to Cirque Le Soir. It’s almost as if a lot of them leave their fears and inhibitions with their coats in the cloakroom. That applies to Lindsay Lohan, too. She is completely smitten with Shiva and demands 20 minutes of one-onone time with her every time she’s here.”

TOM, 32, CIRCUS DIRECTOR AND CO-OWNER

ALEX DE MORA (4), CIRQUE LE SOIR (5)

“When friends and I opened the venue six years ago, we wanted to create a cross between a circus and a club – something for dancers who expect more from a night out than alcohol and music, and a place for artists whose shows are too extreme for other clubs. As the circus director at CLS, I look out for the clubgoers’ wellbeing. Stars such as Kanye West and Rihanna are regulars here, because they know they can really go wild without the need for bodyguards. Miley Cyrus knows that she can smooch with a dancer in a baby mask at our place and no one will take photographs. That’s because we provide a private place for the stars, and also because at CLS they don’t stand out among all the drag queens and oddballs.”

Branching out: the club opened an offshoot in Dubai in 2011, and Shanghai two years later

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DEEP SPACE Get the interstellar experience… on Earth

THOMAS RUSCH

Ever wondered what it would feel like to float in space? Star City, near Moscow, has the answer. For the comparatively low price of €12,500, you can undergo cosmonaut training – not in the vacuum of space, but in 12 million litres of water…

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TRAVEL The Orlan spacesuit is used in real space missions

Moscow, Russia Moscow Want to train like a bona fide cosmonaut? Visit: space-affairs.com

Located within the formerly top secret (and still guarded) Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center on the outskirts of the Russian capital, the Hydrolab is a gigantic ‘neutral buoyancy’ water tank that offsets the force of gravity that causes objects – or people – to sink or rise. It’s the only effective way of simulating weightlessness on Earth for extended periods.

“It’s very close to being in open space,” says Andreas Bergweiler, chief operating officer and mission director for Space Affairs, an agency that organises training sessions at the facility. “The only difference is that in space you are in a vacuum and there’s no atmosphere you can feel. Here, you have the mass of the water around you, but the movements are just the same.”

First, you don a real Orlan spacesuit before being lowered into the pool and guided to submerged, full-size mockups of the International Space Station’s

More to explore

Hard drive Just west of Moscow is the Kubinka Tank Museum, where you’ll learn the history of the T-34 before co-piloting the tank through forest and urban test ranges and firing off a few shells. bestrussiantour.com/ military/tankrides

G-force training on Star City’s centrifuge

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THE INSIDER CLAUSTROPHOBICS NEED NOT APPLY. “IT’S NOT GOOD IF YOU FEEL LIKE TUNA IN A CAN,” SAYS BERGWEILER. “TAKE A DEEP BREATH. YOU MUST LEARN TO CONTROL YOUR BODY AND MIND BEFORE TAKING ON THIS CHALLENGE.” The cosmonauts work on the Zvezda Service Module

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Zvezda Service Module and the Soyuz spacecraft. There, you’re hooked up to an oxygen supply and connected to ‘Mission Control’ via an intercom, before carrying out authentic maintenance work on the module’s exterior. From this point, you’re in space. But beware: one false move and you could float off into oblivion… or at least to the other side of the monstrous tank.

“You have to drag yourself around the module one hand at a time,” says 48-yearold German artist and aspiring astronaut Michael Najjar. “But that’s the best part.

It’s incredibly exciting and challenging to be weightless in this kind of suit.”

Requirements include a PADI scubadiving certificate, a certified health check and a visitor’s visa for Russia, as well as a good level of physical and psychological fitness. Underwater cosmonaut training is fun, but gruelling: the heavy suit will test your strength, while the sessions – some as long as seven hours – will stretch your stamina and endurance (a high-intensity cardio training regime is recommended as preparation). It all adds to the authenticity, though. And when you get to follow in the footsteps of Yuri himself, it’s an exclusive adventure that’s hard to beat.

Moscow’s premier indoor climbing facility, BigWall provides a range of challenging walls and bouldering options, all just 20 minutes from Red Square. It also offers courses on lead climbing if you want to take the next step. bigwallsport.ru/eng

Surf’s up Wakeboarding may not be the first activity that springs to mind when in Russia’s capital, but after a short 16km journey to the Malibu Wakeboard & Wakesurf Club on the Moskva River, you’ll be busting aerial moves in no time. wakesurf.ru

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COMING ATTRACTIONS The best new entertainment to binge on

FILM Bridge Of Spies In cinemas from November 27, Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller (his first film since 2012’s Lincoln) stars Tom Hanks as a lawyer tasked with negotiating the release of a suspected US spy captured in the Soviet Union. bridgeofspies.com

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Director Scott Cooper on turning Johnny Depp into a real-life mob boss in his epic new crime thriller, Black Mass

The Red Bulletin: Why did you cast Johnny Depp as Boston crime kingpin James “Whitey” Bulger?

Scott Cooper: Johnny has always loved gangster movies, and I thought he’d be an excellent choice. Whitey is an extremely chilling and unlikeable character, but also very human. Johnny has a great range, so you can really buy him in many different roles. I think this is one of his finest dramatic performances.

You shot the whole film in Boston – how important was that?

Critical. I shot in every corner of the city. I wanted the audience to feel like they were in Boston in the ’70s and ’80s. The community embraced us – everybody had a story about Whitey – and we shot in the locations where these things happened, like the ‘Bulger burial ground’ under the bridge by the river, which was where he’d take the bodies. That added a level of tension and danger that infected the film in a very positive way.

What was the biggest challenge when making the film?

Many of the best American movies are crime thrillers – The Godfather, Goodfellas – so you have to make something that doesn’t feel derivative. Being based on real events is tricky, too. Audiences don’t come to movies for absolute fact, but you have to make the story as psychologically and emotionally accurate as possible. They want to see the humanity.

Black Mass opens in the UK on November 27. blackmassthemovie.com

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GANGSTER TRIPPIN’ Black Mass isn’t Depp’s first true-crime role…

Donnie Brasco (1997) As undercover FBI agent Joseph D Pistone, who got too close to the Mob. Blow (2001) As minor drug dealer turned major cocaine cartel player George Jung.

Public Enemies (2009) As John Dillinger (below), one of America’s most notorious gangsters.

GAME Call Of Duty: Black Ops III The third instalment in the COD spinoff series takes place further in the future than ever before – 2065, when supersoldiers rule the battlefield and technology threatens to take over the Earth. Available on PS4, Xbox One and PC from November 6. callofduty.com

TV The Last Panthers This six-part series follows the aftermath of a diamond heist that heralds the return of a European crime syndicate. Minority Report’s Samantha Morton and acting legend John Hurt star in the TV thriller, which airs on Sky Atlantic in November. sky.com

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MUSICAL CLIMAX Scientists in the US have identified the music most likely to cause goosebumps or sexual arousal. Here are three tracks from their ‘skin orgasm’ playlist…

In 1984, Duran Duran were at their peak, with an international number-one single in The Reflex. “But we still had a goal,” says bassist John Taylor. “We wanted to write a James Bond theme.” Then, at a party, he spied Bond film producer Cubby Broccoli and asked when “someone decent” would record a theme. His cheeky line worked, and Duran Duran’s A View To A Kill is the most commercially successful Bond song to date. Following the release of his band’s 14th album, Paper Gods, Taylor reveals the tracks that inspired their 007 theme.

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Diamonds Are Forever

Goldfinger

“We listened to this one for inspiration, because we wanted to be part of that great tradition of classic Bond themes. What makes this and other great Bond songs so special is the lush string elements, famously composed by John Barry. We felt very fortunate that Barry agreed to add a 60-piece orchestra arrangement to our song – it was the icing on the cake.”

“Arguably the most important ingredient for a Bond song is a sense of drama and sexual potency. In order to achieve that, you need strong lyrics and an even stronger performance.

No one has delivered these elements as impressively as Shirley Bassey on this track.

It set the bar for Bond themes, because it has a sense of menace that encapsulates the 007 ethos perfectly.”

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Peter Gabriel

The Lark Ascending

No Self Control

“We also considered the kind of music Bond himself would enjoy. There’s a line in Goldfinger where Sean Connery says that “drinking Dom Pérignon ’53 above the temperature of 38°F [is] as bad as listening to The Beatles without earmuffs”, so I think Bond’s a music snob.

He’d rather listen to something grand and British like The Lark Ascending, because of its beauty and drama.”

“When we recorded A View To A Kill, Bond songs had stopped being momentous. Our challenge was to create a modern take on the 007 theme. Peter Gabriel’s hyper-modern drum sounds and recording technique were a big inspiration. We used synths to add sound effects to the song, which was a novelty, because at that time they were used in the Bond movies, but not in their themes.”

The Rolling Stones Honky Tonk Women “Every good Bond theme needs a solid groove, so when we recorded ours at the legendary Maison Rouge Studios in London, we needed to find a good reference song for that purpose. We eventually agreed on Honky Tonk Women as our way to go, because of Charlie Watt’s rhythm track with that legendary cowbell intro.

It’s so laid-back, but still tight. It’s second to none.”

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Adele

Someone Like You

Adele’s biggest hit features the musical device known as an appoggiatura, where there’s a shift from dissonance (tension) to consonance (repose), which induces a shiver in the listener.

Celine Dion

My Heart Will Go On Love the song or hate it, the shift from the tender verse into the bombastic chorus is pure musical frisson. In music theory, this is called a dynamic leap – the transition from soft to loud – and it’s what makes the Titanic song a real tearjerker.

THE GADGET Sony Xperia Z5

Sony’s latest smartphone is a music lover’s dream. Its Hi-Res Audio tech boasts higher sampling rates than CDs, offering amazing sound clarity.

Also, the DSEE HX feature cleverly upscales low-res and compressed audio files to make your favourite tracks sound better than ever before. sonymobile.com

Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto No 2 The Russian composer is known for his sudden changes in harmony – a musical feature that electrifies the body. You can hear it in the second movement of this piano concerto, which inspired Eric Carmen’s ’70s power ballad All By Myself.

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The new Aston Martin DB9 GT: it’s no speed demon, but this update has elegance in spades

The Aston Martin DB9 has been turning heads for more than a decade – which is dangerously venerable for a sportscar, even one hailed as a design classic. So, to head off any suggestion that the DB9 should be put out to pasture, Aston Martin Lagonda has unveiled its most potent version yet: the DB9 GT. The uprated 6.0-litre V12 puts out 540bhp, which propels the GT from 0-60mph (0-96kph) in 4.5s and on to a top speed of 183mph (294kph).

Frankly, that’s not earth-shattering, but to judge a DB9 on acceleration and top speed is rather missing the point.

This is an elegant grand tourer, not an extreme machine. It’s hand-built to waft a driver around the bucolic shires of

England in style. It has power, certainly, but not to the point of vulgarity.

The DB9 GT gets a black splitter and diffuser and discrete GT badging to distinguish it from its stablemates, while inside there’s a new, updated version of AML’s touchscreen infotainment system, AMi II, and more GT badging embroidered onto the fluted leather. And naturally there are more options than you can shake a stick at, including carbon-fibre taillamp inserts, side strakes, diamondturned 10-spoke alloy wheels and alternative brake caliper colours, duotone leather seats, door inserts and head linings; and a One-77inspired steering wheel design. astonmartin.com

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Bentley’s finest gets some muscle While Bentley has courted a younger client base recently with the Continental GT, the Flying Spur is perhaps aimed at the more mature driver – not that the Crewe-based firm can’t present its fourdoor variant in a more modern guise. Enter the Flying Spur Beluga Specification. Available on 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 models, it features 20in machined alloy wheels, a gloss-black radiator matrix and a body-coloured lower grille bar. The handcrafted interior has swathes of black veneer, knurled gear-shift paddles, and deep-pile mats you could lose an army in. Why it’s named after a fish is a mystery. bentleymotors.com

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Inspired by the roofline of the Range Rover Evoque, these sterling silver cufflinks manage to be both minimalist and properly Land Rover-chunky at the same time. shop. landrover.co.uk

Morgan flying jacket The Morgan Motor Company’s range of merchandise includes a made-to-measure sheepskin flying jacket.

It may not be cheap, but it’ll keep you warm. morgan-motor.co.uk

Jaguar F-Type luggage Designed specifically to fit into the boot space of an F-Type as a complete set, Jaguar’s new collection of luggage maximises the limited space available and ensures you won’t be at all embarrassed when checking into that stylish boutique hotel on the Côte d’Azur. jaguar.co.uk

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SURVIVE SUB ZERO Whether you’re carrying out covert missions in the Austrian Alps or simply find yourself off the beaten track when the weather turns, getting caught out in sub-zero temperatures can be lethal. But holing up in the snow can actually prevent you freezing to death. “Getting out of the wind and elements is key,” says Scott Heffield, an experienced mountaineer, former Royal Marine Commando, and project development manager at Bear Grylls Survival Academy.

Heffield should know – he’s survived 36 hours at -30°C on Mount Elbrus in Russia, and 12 hours at -35°C on an Antarctic glacier with no equipment.

“There are a couple of ways you could do it: if you have the gear [your own insulation and an ice axe], you could cut out compacted blocks from the side of a snowbank, hollow out a big chamber and then rebuild a wall using snow as cement.” And if you don’t? “Dig a ‘snow grave’ – a hole just big enough to fit your body – and crawl in.” beargryllssurvivalacademy.com

“Look out for a built-up bank of snow and dig out a hole in the side, with your hands if you have to. Pull up the snow around you so the entrance is as small as possible and plug it with your rucksack. Snow is a fairly good insulator – with your body heat and without the wind chill, it will be quite a few degrees warmer inside than it is outside, maybe even 0°C. It’s not ‘warm’, but it’s better than -20°C!”

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“Snow is pretty good at letting oxygen through, but when the inner walls start to melt and then refreeze as ice, you’re in danger of carbon dioxide poisoning. Make a ventilation hole by shoving a ski pole, umbrella or stick through the ceiling. You can also check C02 levels by lighting a match or lighter – if the flame goes out with no wind, you’ve probably run out of oxygen in there.”

“Keep your body ready for your window of opportunity by massaging your hands and feet constantly.

They’ll be the first to freeze as your core starts to draw all the warm, oxygenated blood back to your organs. Aim for skin-to-skin contact rather than rubbing your feet through your socks, though – you need the friction produced by your hands on your feet to generate heat.”

“You can survive without food for around three weeks, but it’s more like three days without water. Collect snow or ice in a bottle or container and get it close to your body to help it melt. Try not to eat the snow, though – it’ll lower your core temperature too quickly. Food-wise, I always carry a survival bundle containing a chocolate bar, biltong, nuts and raisins, but be prepared to eat anything.”

“A snow hole will keep you alive and warm for a few days. But the truth is, if no one is coming to rescue you, you need to take a risk and get out of that environment super-fast.

Best-case scenario: wait for the sun to come up – instant heat! – and the visibility to improve, as you’ll need a clear sky to be able to navigate.

Make your move when you think the conditions will assist you best.”

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EVENTS Feel the Noise: Sheamus, aka the ‘Irish Curse’, takes care of business

The electrifying sports entertainment spectacle that is WWE returns to the UK and Ireland for 11 days of slams, suplexes and gloriously OTT slanging matches, kicking off at the 3Arena in Dublin. The show will be packed full of WWE ‘Superstars’, including local hero Sheamus, who’ll be performing punishing moves such as the ‘Irish Curse Backbreaker’ and his signature finisher, ‘White Noise’ (see picture above). The tour will then stop off at several major cities before finishing at, erm, Butlins in Minehead.

Wrestlers vs Redcoats? Count us in... wwe.com

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November 13 Creepy Hallow

November 15-22 Match point

Cinemas nationwide

Greenwich, London

After well-received screenings at this year’s Sundance and FrightFest festivals, video director Corin Hardy is ready to unleash his terrifying debut feature film, The Hallow, on the general public. This jumpy horror follows a young family beset by woodland demons in the depths of rural Ireland and is all the more impressive for its ingenious effects and lack of CGI. Be afraid. twitter.com/TheHallowUK

Now in its seventh year at London’s O2 Arena, the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals brings the cream of men’s tennis to the capital for an intense round-robin tournament to finish off the season.

Current champ Novak Djokovic was first to qualify, and he’ll be joined by Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka. barclaysatpworldtourfinals.com

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November 12-15 Dirty driving Deeside, Wales

Remember, remember... these bonfire and firework displays

Finishing the FIA World Rally Championship for another year, the muddy forest stages of the Wales Rally GB provide one of the series’ most gruelling challenges. This year’s event celebrates the 20th anniversary of legendary driver Colin McRae winning his first championship, while GB’s new bright light, M-Sport team leader Elfyn Evans, will be hoping to make good use of his local knowledge to end his year in style. walesrallygb.com

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November Lewes Bonfire Night Celebrations Mud men: the Wales Rally GB is gruelling

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November 13-22 Cool and the gang

Tobacco Dock, London

Various locations, London

Get your painted skulls at the ready… Wahaca’s Day Of The Dead Festival celebrates Mexico’s colourful day of remembrance with a 12-hour party featuring tasty Central American treats, street art and live music, headlined by electro-indie outfit The Horrors. wahaca.co.uk

Dubbed the “best jazz festival on the planet”, the 10-day showcase that is the EFG London Jazz Festival presents a plethora of events at venues across the capital. With acts ranging from Jamie Cullum to Ice-T, eclectic doesn’t quite cover it. efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk

November 3 Catch some Eyre Southampton, Hampshire

Battersea Park, London Visit the Alps without having to get on a plane. Head along to fourday extravaganza The Telegraph Ski And Snowboard Show 2015 to see pro riders perform on a centrepiece 50ft real-snow kicker, affectionately named ‘Mount Battersea’. You’ll also find plenty of Austrian delicacies, mulled wine and live entertainment to make you feel like you’re on the slopes. skiandsnowboard.co.uk

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November Leeds Castle Fireworks Spectacular Spectacular by name...

Spanning two nights, this mammoth display is set to moving images projected onto the walls of the 900-year-old castle. Winter Pimms compulsory. leedscastle.com

Snow time: the Alps come to London

November 5-8 Boarding pass

The UK’s biggest bonfire-night shindig attracts thousands of visitors to witness its incredible parade of flaming crosses, burning tar barrels and giant effigies. lewesbonfire celebrations.com

Following the August release of her debut album, Feline, 21-yearold singer-songwriter Ella Eyre is going out on the road with a whistlestop tour of the UK – starting at Southampton’s O2 Guildhall, then stopping off in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, London and Birmingham along the way. Having supported Olly Murs on his arena tour earlier this year, this is her first string of dates as a headliner. See the London-born songstress showcase her powerful vocals with performances of recent hits including Gravity (with DJ Fresh) and Together – and maybe invite along a few special guests, too. ellaeyre.com

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November Lord Mayor’s Show Based on a rowdy medieval festival dating all the way back to 1215, this annual all-dayer celebrates tradition with a Thames flotilla in the morning and a humdinger of a firework display in the evening.

Get your spot early. lordmayorsshow.london

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What BOND would These timepieces would provide 007 with years of loyal service, no matter how tough the missions Words: Gisbert Brunner

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Underwater Air is at a premium beneath the surface, making time even more of the essence 1 OMEGA SEAMASTER 300 ‘SPECTRE’

omegawatches.com In his latest adventure, Bond wears the steel Omega Seamaster 300 ‘Spectre’ – a limited edition of 7,007. Even an MRI couldn’t stop this watch’s amagnetic 8400 automatic calibre.

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oris.ch If you’re underwater, a quick glance at your Oris Aquis Depth Gauge Yellow will instantly tell you exactly how far down you are.

The watch, with its DLC-plated steel case and self-winding movement, has a smart depthfinder which works at up to 100m.

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seikowatches.com Seiko made its first diver’s watch in 1965. To celebrate the 50-year anniversary, the company has

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roamer.ch Founded in 1888, Roamer has many years of experience in making water-resistant watches.

The Rockshell Mark III, with its self-winding movement and stainless steel case, can handle depths of up to 100m.

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rolex.com Made from flexible metal spring blades covered with high-grade rubber, Rolex’s brand new Oysterflex bracelet really packs a punch. This self-winding wristwatch can easily withstand water pressure of up to 10 bar.

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“I hope we didn’t frighten the fish” Thunderball, 1965

From the bar to the casino, the wristwatch is a man’s most important companion – a mark of style and sophistication

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hublot.com The Swiss firm shows its elegant side. This automatic timepiece has 134 components and a 45mm titanium and compound resin case.

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NORTH FLAG

tudorwatch.com Tudor’s first home-produced self-winding movement comes with a power reserve of 70 hours, a silicon hairspring and official chronometer certification.

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tissot.ch This red gold wristwatch takes its name from the street where Tissot has its HQ. When fully wound, the Powermatic movement has an 80-hour power reserve.

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glashuette-original.com The steel PanoMaticLunar epitomises the artistry of German watchmaking. Glashütte’s 90-02 automatic movement shows the moon’s phases as well as hours, minutes, seconds and the date.

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KINGPIN

nixon.com There is a real diamond set at six o’clock on the dial of the Kingpin, which is housed in a 41mm gold-plated stainless steel case. A quartz movement takes care of the time display.

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“Time to face gravity” Die Another Day, 2002

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tagheuer.com The Carrera Heuer 01 is a watch that combines innovation with tradition. The new 45mm case, made from titanium-carbide-

coated steel, consists of 12 different components. Other features of particular note are the openworked dial and the view of the special front side of the 01 automatic calibre – an advance on the 1887 chronograph with its ratchet, oscillating pinion and power reserve of 50 hours.

Also, the tachymeter scale on the bezel allows the wearer to measure average speed.

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“We have all the time in the world” On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1969

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victorinoxwatches.com Victorinox is all about adventure, and this stainless steel watch with its quartz movement fits the bill perfectly. The robust, plaited parachute cord bracelet keeps the watch firmly on your wrist.

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lotus-watches.com Lotus has honoured two-time MotoGP World Champion Marc Márquez with a quartz chronograph in a blue steel case, water-resistant up to 10 bar.

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hamiltonwatch.com Air Zermatt in Switzerland are famous for their spectacular

mountain rescues. Hamilton has teamed up with them to produce a robust automatic wristwatch with an 80-hour power reserve.

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bellross.com Produced in a limited edition of just 250 pieces, this futuristic, stealthy-looking automatic chronograph has a square case made of an extremely durable high-tech composite.

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festina.com Festina has had a close association with cycling for many years. The Chrono Bike Limited Edition features a 44.5mm brown and black coated steel case, quartz mechanism and scratchproof sapphire glass.

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“I think it may be time to go home” Moonraker, 1979

In the face of hostile worlds, information and precision are vital for survival 1 SUUNTO ESSENTIAL

suunto.com Is it a weather station, a measuring device or a wristwatch? The Suunto Essential is all three, packed into a case that measures less than 50mm in diameter. The digital display shows altitude, air pressure, cardinal direction, temperature and more besides.

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casio-watches.com The G-Shock is a synthesis of advanced technology and maximum durability.

Built-in hybrid technology interprets radio and GPS signals for the precise time and automatic adjustment dependent on location.

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swatch.com Sport is more fun with the Touch Zero One. The large touchscreen puts specific features at your fingertips, and functions including Step Counter, Power Hits and Power Claps are all available via the accompanying smartphone app.

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breitling.com Breitling do smartwatches, too. The B55 features countdown and count-up with reverse counter, electronic speedometer and special functions especially for pilots, all of which are easy to control in conjunction with your smartphone.

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garmin.com The 85g Garmin Epix is a powerful GPS device, smartwatch and fitness tracker all in one. Its high-resolution colour touchscreen allows for the precise display of many different types of map.

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