Race to Survive Alaska.Photo: Patrik Giardino/USA Network
Race to Survive Alaskais turning the pressure up on the outdoor reality competition series.
The new USA Network series, which premieres Monday, challenges eight teams of two to six intense races over the course of 40 days through the harshest of Alaskan landscapes — all for the chance to win $500,000.
But getting to the finish line won’t be easy. Unlike other race shows, there are no cushy hotel rooms or even planes, trains and automobiles to help them get around. Instead, these survival experts must endure more than 100 miles of inhospitable, previously unexplored terrain on the strength of their own two feet with nothing but what they can carry.
“I was hoping there would be an easy way, but it’s Alaska — there’s no easy way,” one says in the premiere.
It’s one thing surviving the elements; it’s a whole other surviving each other.
This being a competition, the endurance racers will also have to push through their hunger pangs, injuries and mental anguish to beat one another to the end. As for the last team to make it to the finish line at the end of each episode, they’ll be eliminated.
Will the teams form alliances to help each other get there? Or stab one another in the back to make it to the end? There are plenty of possibilities, especially considering the dynamic within the racers, who are comprised of teams from diverse backgrounds and relationships.
Race to Survive Alaska.Patrik Giardino/USA Network
They include father-son duo Jeff Leininger, 53, and Hunter Leininger, 21; friends and adventurers Robin Moore, 45, and Elizabeth Killham, 36 — an ER nurse and veterinarian who met on skydiving trip; as well as Alaskan hunters Brett Gatten, 46, and Esther Sanderlin, 40, who have been dating for two years.
There’s also ice climber and mountain guide Max Djenohan, 33, who made a name for himself onNaked and Afraid, when he spent 156 days on four different continents. “Pretty much everything I do helps me get outdoors,” Deinohan says in the premiere.
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Race to Survive Alaskaairs Mondays on USA Network. The action kicks off at 11 p.m. ET with a supersized episode followingWWE Monday Night RAW.
source: people.com
