Sun, Feb 23, 2014
After nine grueling legs, the teams enter number ten battered, bruised and worn down. But they're in luck. Leg ten takes the teams to Kodiak Island, a lush temperate rainforest, full of opportunities for hunting and gathering food. The teams know this is their best chance to stock up on protein and increase their strength before the final leg of the race. The Endurance Athletes, coming off a victory, are still in a must-win situation. Like the last leg, they will do anything to reach the end before the other teams. But their speed comes at a price. The Mountaineers and Military team start out with the goal of increasing their food stores, and it's not long before they find their answer. While hiking to the extraction point, they encounter a pair of subsistence hunters who agree to join them in a hunt for black-tailed deer. If successful, this hunt could be just what the teams need to get the edge going into the final leg. But will the time lost hunting be worth the potential reward?
Sun, Feb 16, 2014
The teams head out on Afognak Island, which is ruled by Kodiak bears, one of the largest bears on Earth. The teams will cross 31 miles of treacherous, bear-packed wilderness to reach the extraction point at the northernmost tip of the island. All three teams are running into bears at every turn. As the Endurance team stops to fish, Sean is left staring into the jaws of a charging brown bear. Between lost maps and wrong turns, the survivalists are just trying to get out of bear country alive.
Sun, Mar 2, 2014
On the final leg, the teams face their toughest challenge yet - a race across an icy glacier, down a whitewater river and across the open ocean to the Mount Augustine volcano. The trek begins high atop the Aleutian Mountains, where the competitors harness up and charge across a crevasse-laden glacier. With all three teams facing daunting obstacles, it's anyone's game going into next week's exciting conclusion.
Sun, Jan 19, 2014
The teams will traverse the treacherous Hayes Glacier, then bushwhack through dense forest on their way to the extraction zone 30 miles away. The Mountaineers charge through a glacial canyon and hit what might be a dead end, but expert ice climber Tyler isn't daunted by the 80-foot ice wall. The Endurance team gets a shock when their strategy leads them right to a dangerous 200-foot rappel. Military is making great time until a wrong step drops Grady into the depths of a deadly crevasse.
Sun, Feb 9, 2014
On the eighth leg of the expedition, the teams will battle through a gauntlet of dense alder thickets, cross the roaring waters of Coal Creek and scale a 600-foot rock fall to reach the extraction zone. To get an early lead and escape the torturous bushwhack, the Mountaineer team's strategy is to immediately cross Coal Creek, despite the risky rushing waters. When they reach the creek, Tyler attempts to walk across, but the powerful rapids sweep him downstream and out of sight.