Product Details

• Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 3
• Studio: Allumination Filmwor
• VHS Release Date: December 14, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1575237091
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #335,111 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The Discovery Channel's Eco-Challenge: Australia is a multiple-sport endurance test that is the ultimate X game for true adventurers. The competition entails teams of four racing nonstop--24 hours a day--over unforgiving terrain. The 1999 race took place in one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world, North Queensland, Australia. The expedition features 48 teams from 15 countries, and each team member must compete; if one falls or cannot go on, the whole team is disqualified, placing the onus on team effort, not individual determination. The first leg of the expedition is set in Undura as the teams battle their way through a 59-mile trek in dense spear grass that leaves all the contestants bloodied and bruised. After this they must endure a 26-mile canoe trip through waters that would send a shiver up the spine of Crocodile Dundee. This is followed by an intimidating rappel down the sheer rock face of Herbert Falls. At the end of the day, the contestants collapse out of exhaustion, while others tend to their injuries. Lack of sleep and stress begins to take its toll after just the first day. Follow the teams for the rest of their arduous journey, and feel their pain and eventual ecstasy when the winning team crosses the finish line. --Jeremy Storey

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leopoldo vazquez, March 15, 2002

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Leopoldo Vazquez "Polo 5" (miami, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eco Challenge Australia Box Set [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Just great!!!!, the only think I have to say is: Mark, why if many other team got between the first 10, they does not been seen in the video??, I just see australian, american 98% of the time? (I have all videos published).
I hope be there one day

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelieveable, June 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Eco Challenge Australia Box Set [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It's a great video from the big race Eco-Challenge. The images from the Outback it's one of the best. We can apreciate the visual and see the problems with the teams. Since the beggining, when Mark make his countdown in the start line, we fell in the race.