Allen Hynek’s classification of alien encounters, laid out in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. The title of The Fourth Kind is a reference to UFO researcher J. Race to Survive: Alaska aims to capture the feeling of some of our planet’s greatest adventures, both real and imagined, by dropping 16 people directly into an environment usually reserved for horror movies. It’s the sort of place where legends are made. There’s a reason generations of people have looked to Alaska as the place which will fix them or consume them. It commands a certain reverence which can only be achieved through the perfect marriage of beauty and death. RELATED: ‘Race to Survive: Alaska’ survival guide: How (not) to die of hypothermiaĪlaska isn’t like most places. All while trying to stay ahead of their competitors and win the half a million dollar prize at the final finish line.

How they get to their destination is up to them, but they’ll have to hike, mountain climb, raft rivers, and carry or scavenge all of the food, water, shelter, and resources they’ll need to survive. Teams get dropped off in one location and picked up someplace else. There are no pre-planned routes and no guides. Over the course of 40 days, teams will run six different legs of a race, spanning more than 100 miles in total. USA’s survival competition reality show Race to Survive: Alaska pits eight teams of two against one another in a grueling race across the Alaskan wilderness.

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