Raid the North

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Raid the North Extreme is one of Canada's highest-profile expedition adventure race. The six-day, non-stop, 500+km expedition race features co-ed teams of four from around the globe, challenging nature, team dynamics, sleep deprivation, and gear failures as they bike, trek, paddle, and use ropes to navigate the wilderness around Prince Rupert, British Columbia, in late June.

The race is organized by Frontier Adventure Racing.

Teams paddle through the many inlets that puncture the Coast Mountains, trek up thousands of metres of elevation, above the clouds, to snow-covered ridges, and to waterfalls that drain glacial meltwater to the Skeena River, where 24-ft tidal changes swell in and out of the Pacific. Competitors also mountain-bike along trails and abandonded mining and forestry roads.

Nearly thirty teams of four are expected, from across North America, and Singapore, Australia and Brazil.

The course was designed by competitive racer Lawrence Foster, who also designed the 2004 AR World Champs course in Newfoundland, Canada.

The race is broadcast in high definition on Global Television, mentv and the Xtreme Sports Channel in Canada, on PBS in the United States, and in syndication around the world on the program Wings Over Canada.