The Summit: CBS Reveals 16 Competitors for Mountain-Climbing Competition Series – canceled + renewed TV exhibits, rankings

by Regina Avalos, September 13, 2024

(Photo: CBS)

The Summit is coming to CBS this fall, and the community has now introduced the 16 rivals for the brand new mountaineering sequence competitors sequence. Hosted by Manu Bennett, the sequence may have 16 strange individuals with out a lot climbing expertise attempting to make it to one of many highest peaks within the New Zealand Alps.

A sneak peek for the sequence will air on September twenty ninth earlier than it begins airing in its common time slot on Wednesday nights alongside Survivor. CBS revealed the solid and extra particulars concerning the sequence in a press launch.

“These 16 strangers – from a Trader Joe’s worker and mom of two, to a 29-year-old trauma nurse, to a 33-year-old Air Force service member – are really moving into the unknown, as they didn’t know what they have been signing up for and lots of of them don’t have any earlier climbing or tenting expertise. The result’s a check of their character, each bodily and psychological, in methods they by no means imagined doable, as they try to achieve the height of a distant, towering mountain.

With their backpacks containing an equal share of $1 million, the group should traverse an exhausting distance in simply 14 days with a purpose to win the money they’re carrying. But not everybody will make it, as these strangers should work collectively to deal with the harmful terrain, unforgiving Antarctic winds, heart-pounding challenges and gut-wrenching eliminations on their strategy to the height. Tracking them alongside this journey is the “Mountain’s Keeper” who will shock the trekkers with brutal twists and power selections that complicate an already grueling ascent. Morals and relationships can be examined once they should resolve what to do if somebody falls behind, as a result of if the group fails to achieve THE SUMMIT in time, all of the prize cash can be misplaced.

The contestants competing on the primary season of THE SUMMIT differ in age, background, character and expertise, contributing to the differing views and methods they every carry to their particular person sport, and including to the depth of the all-or-nothing gameplay the place the group succeeds or fails as one.

The following are the 16 trekkers competing this fall*:

Name: Pati Arana
Age: 37
Current Residence: Studio City, Calif.
Occupation: Barber

Name: Dennis Cho
Age: 29
Current Residence: Indianapolis, Ind.
Occupation: Trauma nurse

Name: Shweta Choudhury
Age: 28
Current Residence: Toronto, Ontario
Occupation: Corporate strategist

Name: Robert Culp
Age: 42
Current Residence: Bolingbrook, Ill.
Occupation: Educator

Name: Dusty Fisher
Age: 28
Current Residence: Boise, Idaho
Occupation: Real property agent

Name: Jeannie Geyer
Age: 56
Current Residence: Mahopac, N.Y.
Occupation: Trader Joe’s worker

Name: Geoff Green
Age: 28
Current Residence: Sharpsburg, Ga.
Occupation: Neuroscientist

Name: Punkin Jackson
Age: 33
Current Residence: Columbus, Miss.
Occupation: Air Force

Name: Bo Martin
Age: 52
Current Residence: Gun Barrel City, Texas
Occupation: Teacher/coach

Name: Rose Mattie
Age: 41
Current Residence: Chandler, Ariz.
Occupation: Stay-at-home mother

Name: Nick Morgan
Age: 28
Current Residence: Madisonville, La.
Occupation: VP of gross sales

Name: Therron Pittman
Age: 29
Current Residence: Van Nuys, Calif.
Occupation: Server

Name: Beckylee Rawls
Age: 27
Current Residence: San Diego, Calif.
Occupation: Construction supervisor

Name: Tony Reyes
Age: 36
Current Residence: Austin, Texas
Occupation: Media director

Name: Amy Stephens
Age: 46
Current Residence: Edisto Island, S.C.
Occupation: Bank supervisor

Name: Jennye Stirlen
Age: 37
Current Residence: Cary, N.C.
Occupation: MMA referee”

A preview of the brand new sequence is under.

What do you think? Are you planning to look at The Summit this fall?