TV Guide: The Summit on Nine and 9Now

In The Summit, premiering Sunday 14 May at 7:00 pm on Nine, teamwork will be essential as the contestants are given one million dollars in cash, divided equally and to keep the money, they have to get themselves and their backpack of cash to the summit of one of New Zealand's highest peaks.

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As contestants must stick together, they are only as fast as their slowest hiker. And the core of the game is when you only have 14 days to get to the top, who will force the group to fall behind and how long do you keep them before you risk getting to the top in time?

If contestants leave a hiker behind in order to move faster, their backpack of cash is removed from the prize pool. But if they don't get to the summit in time, then all the money is forfeited. 

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The host of The Summit is international Australian movie star Jai Courtney. He’ll be watching the hikers every step of the way, providing valuable information on how they are tracking and if they will reach the summit in time. But on this mountain, nothing is easy as the path to the summit is riddled with massive obstacles thrown up by the terrain – from jaw-dropping gorges to raging waterfalls protecting its peak, the hikers will have to navigate past them on their quest to the top.

In the first episode of the new series, It isn’t long before their team spirit is put to the test when the oldest hiker in the group, remote area nurse Kitty, struggles to make it up the first hill, putting everyone behind schedule and causing the group to fracture into two groups: the strong and the weak.

This fracture deepens when Jai reveals the full extent of the game: at each of the five checkpoints along the trail, the group must vote to steal one hiker’s money and kick them off the mountain. What began as a hike up a mountain has become a high-stakes game of strategy and alliance. And they also discover the group is being stalked by a mysterious black helicopter known only as ‘The Mountain’s Keeper,’ which will test the hikers in ways they never could have imagined, and ultimately decide who will stand on The Summit.

The Summit premieres Sunday 14 May at 7:00 pm on Nine and 9Now.