Trekking over pathless terrain is their preferred type of adventure racing.Ĭompetitors: Silver Eensaar (TC), Timmo Tammemäe, Reeda Tuula-Fjodorov, Rain Eensaar, Arthur Raichmann (TAC) Team Estonian ACE is a team who all have strong navigation backgrounds. Racing Eco-Challenge has been a lifelong dream for all of them.Ĭompetitors: Eduardo Baldioceda (TC), Sergio Sanchez, Gerhard Linner, Veronica Bravo, Eric Cano (TAC)
Team Costa Rica is made up of five friends who share a profound connection with nature and an innate desire for exploring. Both fathers were part of the original True North squad that was the only Canadian team to finish Eco-Challenge Argentina in 1999.Ĭompetitors: Alex Man (TC), Becca Man, Philip Roadley, Logan Roadley, Jason Gillespie (TAC) Team True North is a father-daughter, father-son team from central Canada.
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They are back in hopes to redeem themselves in Fiji.Ĭompetitors: Shubi-Silvia Guimares (TC), Karina Bacha Lefevre, Nora Audra, Jose Caputo, Jose Pupo (TAC)Ī group of mostly Canadian world-class ultra-endurance athletes & adventurers, the team includes an obstacle course racing legend, 4x Adventure Racing World Series Event Winner, a Spartan Pro Team member, and a mountain biker & orienteerer.Ĭompetitors: Bob Miller (TC), Ryan Atkins, Scott Ford, Rea Kolbl, Wayne Leek (TAC) With a friendship spanning over 21 years, Team Atenah Brasil has travelled, lived and raced together in two Eco-Challenges, but unfortunately, one member fell ill and they had to exit the race. This family team consists of two brothers, one cousin and an honorary family member who were born and bred in Australia and have shared a lifetime of adventures together from around the world.Ĭompetitors: Tyson Mayr (TC), Elijah Mayr, Nick Mayr, Courtney Home, Chris Dixon (TAC)
They have been friends for years, but this is the first time that they will all be racing together as one team.Ĭompetitors: Rob Preston (TC), Kathryn Preston, Tim Boote, Aaron Prince, Patrick Howlett (TAC) Team Gippsland Adventure is made up of experienced orienteers, runners and adventure racers.
It returns 18 years later, with a new home on Amazon Prime Video and an unprecedented scale and global design to the format. It was pretty rare for us to have to do that, but people’s lives were on the line, we had people we had to airlift out with serious, life-threatening infections."Įco-Challenge previously aired in America for 10 seasons, between 19. "At one point we had to shut the race down and stop it for eight hours or so. He explained: "We definitely had a few times where we had teams trapped in remote ravines where we couldn’t get helicopters in, then flash floods came, big storms, water levels rising, it was very touch-and-go. In an interview with BT.com and other journalists, Bear Grylls said that they had to shut down the race at one point as 'people's lives were on the line'. Viewers worldwide will see the limits of human physical and mental endurance tested like never before. The challenges lie both within the course itself, and competitors’ equally daunting personal struggles, which are only magnified by the demands of the expedition. People from all walks of life and every corner of the globe join together to overcome the most incredible obstacles. The series follows the story of the ultimate expedition race, in which 66 teams from 30 countries race non-stop for 11 days, 24 hours a day, across hundreds of miles of rugged Fijian terrain complete with mountains, jungles, rivers, and ocean.Īt its core, World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji is about perseverance.
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