He fell, but he wasn’t pushed. To tie in with the release of Casino Royale, my colleague Charles Starmer-Smith has been writing an article about travelling in the manner of James Bond. Having made the briefest of checks with our insurers, he volunteered to bungee-jump off the 220 metre-high Verzasca Dam in Switzerland, where Bond himself (or at least his stunt double) takes a dive in the opening scene of the 1997 film GoldenEye.

This is where our new multimedia storytelling tools come into their own. Words can describe the jump; still pictures of the dam with tiny figures at the top can give an idea of the scale of the structure (which is about the same height as the Telegraph’s former HQ at Canary Wharf, Britain’s tallest building); but it takes a video - shot in this case by the photographer Sion Tuohig - to convey the full horror of the thing. I have now seen the video three or four times as it has gone from rough cut to final version, and it still makes my stomach turn over.

 You can see it this Saturday on Telegraph Travel.