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The Furka is famous as the Swiss Alpine pass featured in the James Bond film Goldfinger. One iconic photo of Sean Connery was taken at one of the overlooks next to his signature car.

Downpours, snowstorms, freezing fog and chest infections have already turned this year's Giro d'Italia into an epic tour of attrition, one of the toughest in the event's 104-year history.

Each winter the world’s most famous mountain pass – the Stelvio – is closed. Someone has to be the one to open it for summer then, and this year that task was handed to Top Gear.