‘RACE to the Centre of the Earth’ is an extreme non-elimination competition that pits four teams of three against one another, with each team racing from four remote corners of the planet – South America, Russia, Canada, and Southeast Asia.
The creators of multi-Emmy Award-winning reality series ‘The Amazing Race, producers Bertram Van Munster and Elise Doganieri are introducing ‘Race to the Centre of the Earth’, a new adrenaline-packed global competition series premiering on National Geographic Channel tomorrow.
The teams face untamed jungles, frozen arctic, arid deserts, bustling cities, treacherous mountains, and vast oceans to reach the final location where all four routes intersect – a buoy holding the grand prize of US$1 million (RM4.14 million). The first team to arrive at the buoy claims it all.
The race is divided into two stages: for Stage One, each team is randomly assigned a different international route, and the contestants must travel a daily course of epic physical challenges within a set time frame.
They are given a GPS device containing several waypoints indicating the route they must follow.
The team with the most points at the end of Stage One has a starting position advantage at the beginning of Stage Two. In this final stage, teams race head-to-head, with the first team to reach the buoy holding the grand prize named the winner.
The adventurous teams, made up of friends and co-workers, are confident their bond is what will lead them to the finish line.
The four teams include Team Russia, a group of colleagues from Anchorage, Alaska, who have known each other for 15 years and have been together through highly intense situations and personal milestones, race through a variety of terrains in Russia; Team North America, a team of co-workers from Denver, Colorado, who consider each other family, trek their way through the Canadian wilderness; Team South America, who boulder their way through daily intense training back home in San Diego, California, trek through the glaciers and more in South America; and Team Southeast Asia from Seattle, Washington, who have bonded over their love of adventure, travel and the outdoors, travel through Southeast Asia.
After six months of rigorous prep work and scouting hundreds of locations covering more than 56,000 kilometres around the globe, a highly experienced team of producers and cinematographers hit the ground running, literally.
Catch the epic seven-part series on National Geographic Channel (Astro: CH 551 HD / Unifi TV: CH 508 HD) tomorrow at 10am, with a primetime repeat at 10pm. – The Vibes, March 29, 2021
