CBS has ordered a U.S. version of The Summit, an adventure reality competition series. Manu Bennett, who starred in Spartacus, Arrow and The Hobbit trilogy, will host the series, which is based on an Australian format.
The series, which originally aired on Australia’s Nine Network, follows sixteen strangers, who will embark on a journey through the New Zealand Alps in an attempt to reach the peak of a mountain.
With their backpacks containing an equal share of $1M, the group must traverse the distance in just 14 days in order to win the cash they are carrying.
But not everyone will make it, as the strangers must work together to tackle the terrain, Antarctic winds, challenges and eliminations on their way to the peak.
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