Mark Burnett managed to combine concepts from Eco-Challenge, The Amazing Race, and Indiana Jones to create ABC’s Expedition Impossible, a high-adventure, human-drama competition documentary series, showcasing 13 teams of 3 racing in Morocco across vast deserts, over snow capped mountains and through raging rivers.

I spent a month in Morocco following racers with a camera: filming, interviewing, and ensuring that challenges, puzzles, and camps ran smoothly.