Adventure Unscripted: The Ultimate Travel Challenge Now Streaming on Red Bull TV
Interested in travel, adventure and making the most of life’s experiences? Adventure Unscripted, available now on Red Bull TV ticks all the boxes.
Presented by YouTube travel expert Drew Binsky and Iain Chambers, Adventure Unscripted features the biggest, funniest, most emotional and craziest moments from Red Bull Can You Make It? - an event that challenges teams to cross Europe without cash, credit cards or their personal phones, while also serving up travel tips, encouragement and inspiration.
During Red Bull Can You Make It?, 300 teams from 60 countries had only seven days to travel across Europe with no personal phone, cash or credit cards, and only cans of Red Bull as their currency. And they did it all through the kindness of strangers, bartering cans for their needs and taking on unique challenges along the way. The emotion, thrills and hilarity they captured in their spontaneous vlogs is a highlight of Adventure Unscripted.
Compilations from participating teams’ vlogs provide the shows’ liveliest and most touching moments – from revealing what they packed (from spare underwear to, in one case, an accordion); their methods of transport (from luxury sportscars to firetrucks and bulldozers); their fails (hopeless hitchhiking, weather woes, pratfalls); and the success they felt when they went out of their own comfort zone, whether it was wakeboarding, skydiving, climbing a ship’s mast – or simply shaking off inhibitions to learn a local folk dance.
The show’s hosts are both well-travelled themselves. Chambers is a TV and Esports presenter, while Binsky is a travel expert and content creator whose videos from visiting every one of the world’s 197 countries have drawn over 14 million followers. Binsky, who provides insightful travel advice and insider stories from his journeys throughout the show, says: “You’ve really got to just be yourself, go with the flow, and be spontaneous. All my best travel memories come from stepping out of my comfort zone.”
Three Red Bull Can You Make It? teams also appear as studio guests. Alex, Zach and Brandon, an up-for-anything team from the USA, describe the highs and lows of their adventure, from sleeping on the ground to soaring in the Alps via pontoon plane. Viewers additionally discover that the name they chose, Directionally Challenged, turned out to be comically accurate.
Meanwhile, Australia’s Nathan, Emily and Onye share the “craziest” moments from their journey and how they managed to communicate when no one spoke their language, as well as the spontaneous fun that comes from having to think on your feet – even if (in Emily’s case) one foot ends up in an air cast.
One of the most heartwarming vlog reels points up the generosity of strangers who offered food and shelter, paid for travel tickets and collectively helped hundreds of tired teams to realise that they really could make it to Berlin. The final studio guests, Passant, Seif and Ahmed from Egypt, met people in eight different countries during their trek, and they still appreciate those chance encounters today.
Seif, who is not only a surgeon but also founder of an Egyptian tourism initiative, might seem to be an unexpected participant for such a grassroots travel experience. But he explains: “If I was given a million dollars to travel the world, I would still do this kind of travel because it’s the best way to connect with cultures. You meet all kinds of people and learn from each person’s experience.”
Passant agrees, saying: “We got to speak with so many people that otherwise I probably would not have met [because] I would be on my phone, not in the moment. You don’t get to meet this many strangers if you’re not present and speaking to the people around you. And when you do, you bump into so much kindness.”