Name: Ultimate Rush
Released: 2011-12-23T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Nick Nolte

TV Show · Sport · Adventure

The ultimate athletes and the ultimate filmmakers paired with Hollywood story telling: Pulitzer Prize-nominee and Hollywood screenwriter Stephen Schiff teams up with the action-sports wizards from MSP and Red Bull Media House to ask the ultimate questions: Why do these athletes do what they do?

2011 · 24m

Starring Nick Nolte

EPISODE 1

Quest for Speed

Olympic champion Kjeld Nuis attempts to break the speed skate record on an 1500m outdoor ice track in Sweden.

24 min
EPISODE 2

Episode 5

Austrian bicyclist Max Stöckl travels to Chile in an attempt to break the downhill mountain bike speed record.

23 min
EPISODE 3

Aconcaguaq

Athlete Fernanda Maciel hopes to become the first woman in the world to run up and down Aconcagua, aiming to break a world record by completing the run in under 24 hours.

23 min
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Frenchmen Vince Reffet and Fred Fugen attempt a stunt fit for a Bond movie: skydiving from the summit of a mountain into an airplane mid-flight.

24 min
EPISODE 5

Great Himalayan Trail

Ultra distance runners Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel travel to Nepal in order to brave through the Great Himalaya Trail.

24 min
EPISODE 6

Episode 6

Ross Edgley does the unthinkable and attempts to swim 2,000 miles around mainland Great Britain in 100 days.

24 min

Nick Nolte

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Stephen Schiff

Writer

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