Eco Challenge

If you've never heard of the Eco Challenge before then let me enlighten you, it's an expedition endurance race covering normally 300 miles in 10 or so days, swimming, cycling, rafting, climbing running, hiking and sometimes crawling!

There were multiple events between 1995 to 2002 which took place in different ecosystems across the world including Utah, British Columbia, Australia, Morocco, Borneo, New Zealand, Argentina and Fiji.

Teams are made up of 4 competitors, though it was 5 to start with in the early days, from all over the world.

One of the rules to the earlier races was that you leave no trace that you'd ever been there apart from footprints.

I remember watching these super-humans for the first time many years ago and was absolutely amazed at the strength and endurance of these people, both of body and mind. 

A new series has started on Prime, and it is just as tough, though there's probably a little bit more weepy backstories than I remember, but isn't that the way TV has gone, still really worth a watch, and check out some of the older ones linked above.

Just a final note, now I've finished it, the tend to ignore the European teams, probably didn't have weepy enough backstories!