Why 71 degrees north

Each week, one of the competitors is eliminated, and in the end only the strongest, most determined and smartest will reach 71 Degrees North! Home Programmes 71 Degrees North. Description 12 contestants set out on one of the most exciting and dangerous journeys reality TV has ever seen: a race from southern Norway to Nordkapp, at 71 Degrees North.

Additional Information: Brand new base-camp version, suitable for smaller budgets, is performing well in Norway TV Norge Norway — more than 20 years on air with over 30 seasons aired and several successful spin offs Locally produced in 7 markets. Forgotten Password? In cases where the challenges takes place over two days, the celebrities must spend the night in tents. The team who completes the challenge, and crosses the finish line first, or completes the challenge best as determined by an expert are declared the winners and receive a night of luxury in a log cabin.

The losing team meanwhile must spend another night under canvas. The second challenge the celebrities must complete is an immunity challenge. In this challenge, the celebrities compete individually to complete a given task. Tasks in the immunity challenge are typically a little more extreme than those in the team challenge, including activities such as swimming in an icy lake, climbing an ice wall, or tobogganing.

The winner of this challenge is the celebrity who swam the furthest, or completed the course quickest, or lasted the longest etc, as determined by the specifics of the challenge. The winner of challenge receives immunity from that week's elimination vote.

Later, at the elimination vote, each celebrity must secretly write down which of their fellow celebrities they would like to see leave the group. Although immune from the vote, the winner of the immunity challenge is still required to cast a vote of their own. Once the group have all voted, they gather with the hosts around the camp fire, and the result of the vote is revealed. The celebrity with the most votes is duly eliminated from the competition, and sent home.

Subsequent episodes play out in the same fashion, however the celebrity who won the immunity challenge in the previous episode becomes one of the team leaders in the next episode. In the final episode, the three celebrities who remain in the competition take part in a challenge which sees one of them eliminated. In the first series this was to swim as far as they could under an ice-covered lake, with the celebrity who swam the shortest distance being eliminated.

The last two remaining celebrities then take part in an endurance challenge. This involves a 2km hike across snow fields, with the first to arrive having the choice of spending the night in a tent or a snow cave.