The Summit

I cried when Brook deceived Alex. She said she wanted to teach her children how to be a strong woman, but it's not a lesson I would want to teach my children , that it's okay to stab people in the back, that helped you get to the top, and that loyalty is not important. Sorry, that's not a good life lesson to your young ones. The show is a lot of manipulation, very similar to Survivor. I enjoy watching the physical events they have to go through, but not so much the meanness and back stabbing. It was interesting to watch Isaac overcome his fears . Well done Isaac one of the few genuine people on this show along with Alex.

It's unbelievable that the producers could ruin this program. It had everything: physical challenges, competitions, beautiful scenery, eliminations, deceit, loads of cash, strong athletes, everything. And yet, ruin it they did. The last episodes were unwatchable for the boredom and can be fast forwarded through the weeping from letters from home, the weeping from zoom chats (do they really need zoom chats at the top of a mountain?) and the repetition of the previous scenesafter the commercials. Honestly, this program became so disappointing after the initial episodes draw you in. It's as if they wanted to incorporate every reality series ever done and failed miserably in the doing.

This show is clearly run by producers expecting the contestants to overcompensate the reality and bring out the Hollywood. The hour long show (42 min) could be chopped in half and not lose a step. Too damn drawn out. No thumbs up, CBS.

The are choosing players that have such limited skills, too! As much as CBS tried making this like Survivor, they failed. Why is it so hard to make a reality show REAL? It's interesting that the same lack of tactics plays out on this show as well. Men vs. Women, color vs. Caucasian, strong vs. Week, straight vs. Gay, etc. Why can't it be human vs. Human? Because, once again, producers are involved!

So the object is to try to eliminate those with strong hiking skills so lesser people can get to top of mountain and win lots of money. This was not the premise that the producers provided the audience; i.e., get to top of mountain. The Selection of people who had no idea how difficult it is to summit any substantial mountain, much less an New Zealand high summit is an insult to the audience. One can only surmise that whoever thought this would be an interesting show totally missed the boat; mostly because people who are overweight, unskilled in hiking should not have been selected to climb a really big mountain.

The show summit is somewhat irritating to watch. Because some of the people on the show are so out of shape and that contestants vote off the strong means the week are never gonna make it to the summit. And then when they have a choice to vote off the week, the strongest are voted off and the week slow the rest of the contestants down. How dumb is that? Yeah, the people are letting their emotions overshadow the strategy of the goal of the game which is getting to the summit, but they are not going to get there when they keep voting off strong people. And then the host doesn't really let the contestants vote. He basically picks 2 people and then they vote on the two people he picks.