Based on the Swedish television series Det största äventyret [sv] (The Greatest Adventure), the premise of the programme is to drop celebrities into a hostile environment and leave them to fend for themselves.
[1] The cast included seven French athletes—Florence Arthaud, Alain Bernard, Philippe Candeloro, Jeannie Longo, Camille Muffat, Alexis Vastine, Sylvain Wiltord—and Swiss athlete Anne-Flore Marxer.
[citation needed] By Monday 9 March, the show had moved to the province of La Rioja, and filming of the first episode was complete, with Wiltord having been eliminated from the process, and returned home to Paris.
[6] The series had been scheduled to air as part of the channel's summer 2015 lineup, but speaking subsequently to TF1, the CEO of Adventure Line Productions, Franck Firmin-Guion, said that footage of the show would "not see the light of day" following the incident.
[7] Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Professor Laurie Levenson of Loyola Law School suggested the accident demonstrates the dangers of the genre: "These reality shows try to outdo each other.
"[12] A report by Time magazine's Vivienne Walt suggested a culture of low budget television prepared to take increasingly greater risks with its productions for dramatic effect may have resulted in this tragedy, and others.