Following the first two episodes of the new three-part television series, Shell Helix Driven to Extremes, the TV series has arrived in the unforgivingly wet tropical jungles of southern Malaysia.
After the freezing conditions of Siberia and the searing heat of China’s Taklamakan ‘Desert of Death’, the challenge of the Malaysian jungle now awaits the Shell Helix Driven to Extremes crew in the finale of the three part series produced in collaboration with Discovery Networks.
Over three days from December 17 to 19 2012, ex-Formula One driver Mika Salo of Finland and Oscar-winning American actor, Adrien Brody, will take on one of the toughest roads on earth in the form of the Ulu Sedili jungle trail in Johor.
Driving a specially-modified Nissan Patrol filled with Shell Helix Ultra fully synthetic motor oil, the drivers are expected to conquer slippery and muddy trails full of ruts and gullies, fallen trees, swollen rivers and a host of other obstacles in the middle of an unusually wet rainy season before reaching Kampung Peta at the fringe of the Endau Rompin National Park.
Shell, the world’s leading lubricants company for the sixth consecutive year, commissioned with Discovery Networks, Shell Helix Driven to Extremes to put its premium motor oil, Shell Helix Ultra, to the ultimate test in some of the coldest, hottest and roughest locations on earth.
The numbing -56ºC Siberian cold, blistering +50ºC heat of China’s Taklamakan Desert and the punishing terrain, wetness and humidity of the Malaysian jungles all provide extreme tests of Shell Helix Ultra’s all-weather engine protection capabilities.
The first episode of Shell Helix Driven to Extremes sees the crew travel from the coldest city in the world, Yakutsk, along the Kolyma Highway, also known as the ‘Road of Bones’, to one of the coldest inhabited places on earth, Oymyakon, where the temperature reached –56°C.
In the second episode, the crew journey through the sub-Saharan temperatures of Western China’s ‘Desert of Death’.
Their journey takes them from Hami City in China to the city of Urumqi, the farthest city from any ocean in the world. To get there, they are forced to drive across one of the hottest and lowest places on earth, negotiating 100 foot sand dunes, vast rocky plains and blistering +50°C heat.
The three-episode Shell Helix Driven to Extremes is airing in 19 markets on the Discovery Channel this year. You will also be able to log on to the Shell Helix Driven to Extremes YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/driventoextremes to find exclusive behind-the-scenes content from all three episodes.
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they must have arrived at the photoshoot location and thought, damn we’re lost again
No wonder Adrian hasnt been doing much good films lately….
Other hobbies now.
Dragging the trunk of the tree looks cruel amongst other trees at the road side. It’s like dragging a dead human body on the road. Very extreme!
I will see that the pickup is more durable and buy it rather than thinking the oil that makes the difference.
Why Nissan?
How come they do not used Kia/Hyundai/Ssangyong instead?
why nissan?
how come the do not use toyota?
Yea… Patrol POWER…
This is tough terrain… Toyota would break down too many times…. I own a 4.2 diesel Nissan Patrol…. there is NOTHING better for that type of terrain …. end of story!!!
Well done to Shell for choosing a reliable vehicle to do this in!!!
And who would want to sell that Nissan Patrol… once you have owned one you will never want to sell it!!! too much driving pleasure!!
Enjoying the show, it’s a shame the don’t make the patrol for the British market anymore!
I would want to know the model for the nissan patrols that are being used in the show. Thanks