The Summit - Episode Guide

Sixteen ordinary Americans embark on a once-in-a-lifetime journey through the treacherous New Zealand Alps in an attempt to reach the peak of a towering mountain in just 14 days in order to keep their share of the $1 million prize they're carrying in their backpacks. After a medical emergency occurs just hours into the trek and the climbers face a perilous obstacle crossing a ravine, fears rise as the Mountain's Keeper, who is tracking them along their journey, forces the group to make their first brutal moral decision.

After an unexpected twist reverberates throughout the group, game plans shift as they begin to tackle harder terrain. While the trekkers are challenged with crossing an extremely rickety bridge, emotions surge as the Mountain's Keeper arrives with a shocking choice for the trekkers to make, leaving one person's fate hanging by a thread.

As the trekkers struggle with the arduous terrain, the division of alliances among them becomes noticeable. When the Mountain's Keeper observes the group's slow pace, she offers a proposition to help them stay on track to reach the summit in time, but not without both individual and collective consequences.

After a weather delay pauses the group's progress, they set out to try and make up for lost time. When they reach an obstacle that forces them to split into pairs, one Leader and one Follower, to traverse a steep cliff, one trekker is left to face the challenge alone, bringing alliances and connections into question

As the trekkers hit the halfway mark on their journey and venture toward the snow line, a divide in pace emerges within the group. After a daunting rappelling obstacle down a 500-foot vertical rock face, the group learns that they have broken a fundamental rule of THE SUMMIT – that the group must travel together at all times – and having ignored the Mountain's Keeper's repeated warnings, must endure the game-changing consequences.