Orion Health Godzone Adventure Filmed for World Broadcast

Orion Health Godzone Adventure Filmed for Worldwide Broadcast

New Zealand’s newest adventure race, the Orion Health GODZONE Adventure, being held over Easter 2012, has been chosen as one of six leading expedition races in the world to be filmed for global broadcast.

The very best adventure racing athletes and their teams all vying to win the Adventure Racing World Series Championships for 2012 will be the focus of a new 24 part series to be filmed in HD (high definition). The production company behind the filming is Australian based, Nothin but Shorts, with the series sanctioned by AR World Series Director, Craig Bycroft.

Global broadcasts of the new series will begin on the Outdoor Channel screening throughout Asia from the 1st February, 2012 followed by Fox Sports in Australia and other broadcast partners Qantas In-flight, BSkyB in the UK and Europe, USA and South America.

The first race in the series will showcase the epic XPD Expedition race held in the brutal and remote Tasmanian west coast in Australia late last year. High performance adventure racing teams are now heading to Ecuador where tropical rain forests and high altitude will test their limits in the Huairasinchi ARW event where filming will occur next.

The Orion Health GODZone Adventure based out of Queenstown will be the third challenge in the series with a chance for domestic and international teams to experience New Zealand’s back country, the original birthplace of adventure racing.

Orion Health GODZone Co-Director, Adam Fairmaid, says the race will not only be filmed as part of the global series but the four half hour episodes will also be broadcast on New Zealand's Sky Sports Channels.

“This really represents a unique opportunity to show why New Zealand, in some ways, represents the pinnacle of adventure travel. Viewers will watch some of the world’s toughest athletes explore some wonderful locations, and all in glorious HD.

Couple that with a lack of sleep, mental and physical hardship and you have a recipe for compelling viewing. We’re absolutely delighted to be part of the new adventure series.”

To find out more about Orion Health GODZone Adventure visit www.godzoneadventure.com or http://www.facebook.com/godzoneadventure

A ‘Wild Racers’ Teaser can be viewed online at http://vimeo.com/32248088

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