Trailblazers

I'm struggling to write this review because I don't know what to begin criticizing first. The show will try to convince you that your best guide into a remote area is someone who has never been there before, as long as they have military training! Why take a guide with climbing or mountaineering experience, when you can take a navy seal! But there's more! How remote are these areas really? Take for example the El Reventador episode; there is a hostel at the bottom of the volcano and a hiking trail that takes you half way up. There is detailed route information on how to get to hike to the cone in six hours that anyone can google, yet this show will try to convince you that these guys are "trail blazers." Camera crew seems to be above the "expert" guides in the most difficult of places, as the guides proclaim to be the first to reach these spots. Camera is constantly shaken, rocks thrown down and angles distorted to make it seems like these guys are constantly in danger. If there are people are watching these episodes from start to finish, they've certainly accomplished something more challenging than these "trailblazers."

This show started out promising with the elements of an outdoor adventure show which enticed me to watch. As a fan of Dual Survival, Alone, Survivorman, Creek Stewart and many other great shows, I really wanted to like this show but it failed. It started out okay, but quickly went down hill, dragged on an on, got insanely repetitive showing the same scenes over and over, and got to the point where it was looking staged and drama induced. Definitely deserved cancellation.