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Raid the North Extreme Broadcast Date Announced

FAR / 19.12.2007

Canada’s premiere wilderness expedition adventure race, Raid the North Extreme, will arrive in an unusually urban location this January – your television set.

The one-hour High-Definition feature broadcast on the race will air on Global TV across Canada on Saturday, January 12 at 9 p.m.

Forget the Amazing Race. This six-day, non-stop, 500+km expedition race features coed teams of four from around the globe facing the challenges of nature, team dynamics, sleep deprivation, and gear failures as they bike, trek, paddle, and use ropes to navigate the wilderness around BC’s North Coast - Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii.

Canada’s top adventure race organizers, Frontier Adventure Racing, in partnership with ATV Productions of Vancouver, had a vision to take adventure racing to new heights on Canadian television. Using boat, ferry, helicopter and aircraft support, along with caffeine and bug nets, film crews shot the event day and night in High Definition, capturing the action, the drama and the emotions as teams traversed the incredibly rugged Northern BC terrain.

Nearly thirty teams of four from across North America, and from as far as Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, blew away their physical and emotional limits during Raid the North Extreme. These athletes are your neighbors, your peers, your colleagues. They could be you – not Olympians, not sport celebrities, just regular people with a thirst for adventure and a desire to discover their potential.

This broadcast is a first in Canada. Expedition racing has remained underground, despite the fact that reality television grew out of the sport. Mark Burnett (Survivor, the Apprentice, Rock Star), often hailed as the father of ‘unscripted television’, got his start producing an adventure race - the EcoChallenge.