Darwin's Race is the most ambitious adventure race ever attempted, pitting twelve hardened racers against each other and the daunting elements of the world's deepest and unexplored gorge. The first to reach the top of the 22,000-foot Kuk Sur will claim a $2 million prize and the first summit of one of the last remaining unclaimed Himalayan mountain peaks. Connor Michaels, haunted by his brother's mysterious death on Kuk Sur six years earlier, decided to come out of seclusion to lead one of the teams and to once and for all determine what happened to his brother. On his team, Preston Child, the millionaire financier of the race, and his beautiful daughter, Malika, harbor their own dark reasons for descending tinto the gorge. And hotshot television producer Terrance Carlton, bent on a ratings bonanza, outfits each racer with a shoulder mounted camera for live broadcasts around the world.