Race Across the World series 3
[1][2] In early 2023, the BBC revealed the five pairs of competitors as Cathie and Tricia, Claudia and Kevin, Ladi and Monique, Marc and Michael, and Mobeen and Zainib.
Marc and Michael also rented a car from Terrace, but detoured to go rafting at Haines Junction on the Dezadeash River before continuing to Whitehorse.
Zainib and Mobeen were the first into the Yukon, but detoured to Burwash Landing to work cleaning a light aircraft in exchange for a flight in it over Kluane National Park.
The race restarted on Day 15 from Dawson City to the Rocky Mountain resort of Banff in the province of Alberta, some 2,700 kilometres (1,700 mi) distant, with the team finishing last facing elimination.
Despite the setback, they headed to the same RV hire company in Whitehorse as Zainib and Mobeen, where both teams managed to secure RVs that needed repositioning to Edmonton at no cost.
Now reduced to four teams, the race continued from Banff to Churchill on Hudson Bay in the far north; an isolated location without any road connections to the rest of Canada.
They soon learnt that the only way to reach Churchill was on the twice-weekly Winnipeg–Churchill train traversing the Hudson Bay Railway, with the next departure from Winnipeg in three days' time.
Zainib and Mobeen, however, spent time with a Cree family in the nearby city of Selkirk to rest and recuperate after two days of difficult travel.
They were instructed to cross the swing bridge by foot, before learning that the checkpoint was a further 40 kilometres (25 mi) south with no public transport links.
Claudia and Kevin and Monique and Ladi took the ferry (MS Chi-Cheemaun) from Manitoulin Island and headed towards Toronto whilst Cathie and Tricia and Zainib and Mobeen backtracked to Espanola to take a more direct route to Ottawa with the latter team stopping in Sudbury to work in a cheese factory for bed and board and an unexpected free onward bus ticket to Ottawa.
In Toronto, Claudia and Kevin chose to take a sightseeing trip to Niagara Falls as Monique and Ladi fell behind due to missing the ferry off Manitoulin Island.
As they and Claudia and Kevin reached Montreal, both teams discovered the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix was in town and were forced to a pay a premium for accommodation.
The other teams attempted to take a later bus to Rimouski; however, Tricia and Cathie bought the last two tickets which left Monique and Ladi and Claudia and Kevin stranded in Quebec City.
With few transport options out of Quebec City for the rest of the day, Monique and Ladi decided to take a taxi to Rivière-du-Loup and seek a ride from there into New Brunswick.
Down to their last couple of hundred dollars and determined to reach the Atlantic Coast, Claudia and Kevin were greeted by a cannabis shop owner in Edmunston who provided them with breakfast, drove them down to Fredericton and paid for their hotel stay for the night.
[21] The competition's final leg began on day 47 with a 1,500-kilometre (930 mi) race from Liverpool to the last checkpoint near St. John's on the eastern tip of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula.
[22] Zainib and Mobeen forfeited their lead with a decision to work in Lunenberg at a seafood restaurant whilst Tricia and Cathie and Monique and Ladi raced ahead to Halifax by taxi; the latter two teams found themselves potentially stranded for a day due to lack of onward buses.
Also with dwindling funds, Zainib and Mobeen decided to work in Port Hawkesbury at an off-road tours company for free bed and board, before heading on to North Sydney.
All three teams were ultimately faced with the same dilemma: whether to take the costlier ferry to Argentia or the shorter, cheaper one across the Cabot Strait to the more remote town of Port aux Basques.
In St. John's, the teams received instruction that the final checkpoint was at Cape Spear, the most easterly point of the North American continent, a further 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) away.
Lauding the choice of contestants, he stated, "The secrets and tensions within relationships, magnified and then inevitably resolved on the journey – a process these people have chosen to undergo in a foreign country, on national television – are what make Race Across the World a top-tier reality show, and this year's cast could be the best ever.
"[23] Emily Baker of the i newspaper awarded the opening episode 4 stars out of 5, initially sceptical surrounding the choice of a largely English speaking country as the setting for the entire series, she went on to admit that the lack of a language barrier in no way made the race less challenging, judging it to be "Painstakingly slow, fiendishly strategic and with real dangers along the way (bears, mostly), this is Race Across the World in a way we've never seen it before.
