Adventure Competition Reality TV Show Wants You

'The Nevada Passage'

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. October 14, 2008

CARSON CITY, NV, January 11, 2007. Calling all adventure-seeking athletes! The first-of-its-kind Nevada Passage reality television adventure competition and the Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT) are inviting the general public to audition as participants in this year's exciting week-long excursion.

The Nevada Passage will bring 20 hand-picked athletes to Nevada May 7-12, 2007, to compete in a series of adventure sports and visits to six outdoor destinations including Valley of Fire State Park, Amargosa Dunes, Rhyolite, Tonopah and Goldfield, Carson City and Carson Valley and Mount Rose. The athletes will be paired by profession into 10 coed teams of two and their experiences will be filmed and edited into a one-hour television program to be syndicated in more than 80 U.S. markets between August 2007 and February 2008. This year, one team will be selected from the auditioning public.

"We're introducing a casting call this year to give a man and a woman who may have watched The Nevada Passage on TV and wished they could compete the chance to do it," Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, NCOT chair, said. "Opening the adventure competition to public participation is a new twist for 2007 that will demonstrate to television viewers that exciting adventure in Nevada is totally doable."

TEAM Unlimited, a Honolulu-based company that also produces the Xterra USA Championship Race at Lake Tahoe, developed The Nevada Passage to showcase Nevada's adventure opportunities and dramatic landscape. This will be NCOT's third show, which so far has highlighted outdoor adventures in 12 different places in Nevada. Six new destinations will be featured this year.

The competition enables athletes to test their ability and push themselves to the limit and to experience Nevada's wide-open, mountainous terrain. This year's program will include competitive events at four locations and exploring two others as visitor destinations.

Those who wish to audition must download an application online and submit it with a short video stating why they should be selected as a competitor. Audition materials must be mailed and received by TEAM Unlimited by March 15, 2007. Audition information and rules for "The Nevada Passage" can be found at www.nevadapassage.com,

The stages of this year's competition, which are subject to change because of weather and other conditions, are planned as follows:

Stage 1: Desert 10K run

Location: Valley of Fire State Park near Las Vegas

Stage 2: ATV competition

Location: Amargosa Dunes (approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas)

Destination Highlight 1: Rhyolite (a ghost town northwest of Las Vegas)

Stage 3: Back-roads cycling

Location: Tonopah and Goldfield (two historic mining towns along U.S. Highway 95)

Stage 4: Back-country skiing

Location: Mount Rose near Reno

Destination Highlight 2: Carson City/Carson Valley

The first one-hour "The Nevada Passage" adventure reality show began nationwide syndication in August 2005 and already has aired in more than 100 markets on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and UPN affiliates as well as 11 resort networks. Viewers in top metropolitan markets such as New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles have seen both seasons of "The Nevada Passage," which will air through February 2007 and then be available online.

Along with reaching approximately 5.4 million television viewers through syndication, news stories about "The Nevada Passage" have drawn attention to Nevada's outdoor adventure with nearly two hours of combined television news coverage and 500 print and Internet articles.