Eco Challenge Fiji trailer out

The show will be televised on Amazon Prime in August

By Vijay Narayan

25/06/2020

Participants of the World’s Toughest Race, Eco-Challenge Fiji. [image vitalthrills.com]

The world-wide trailer of the Amazon production World’s Toughest Race, Eco-Challenge Fiji has been released and it will go to air in August.

Eco Challenge was shot in Fiji in September last year.

66 teams from 30 countries battled it out in the mountains, forests and rivers in Viti Levu as part of the World’s Toughest Race.

There were 350 participants, and as part of the race, teams had to progress 24 hours a day, uninterrupted, over 600 kilometres of mountains and jungle.

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Famous television presenter and survival instructor, Bear Grylls is the host and co producer of Eco-Challenge Fiji.

Bear Grylls

The show will be televised on Amazon Prime in August.

The prize money for the race was $100,000 while the second runner up got $50,000. $25,000 went to the team that finished in third place.

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