X4SKP wrote:

At the beginning of the year, in an evening with Top Gear, Hammond said two things about this stunt from memory
1. It was the scariest thing he's done on Top Gear and
2. We did it properly the Land Rover winches itself up the Dam.

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Sone news stories using this vehicle and stating "BBC Worldwide released this image of the Land Rover used on the way to foot of the dam in the Elan Valley" - so maybe they used two different vehicles in the filming?


Small article about it on Welsh Water's website:

http://www.dwrcymru.com/en/News-Summary/20...n-Dam.aspx

"Standing at a magnificent 56 metres high and with an eye watering gradient of 72° the dam was seen as the perfect place to really put the vehicle to test."

and that vehicle in it's more normal surroundings:

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Quote:

Spiderman could do it and no doubt a rock climber would manage it with ease, but who would have thought that a 1930s Land Rover Defender would be brave enough to attempt to scale the wall of the Claerwen Dam at Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s Elan Valley Estate.