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Double trouble
After a gut-churning episode nine last week, viewers were understandably unsure about what the latest edition of the Himalaya Roadies would have in store. And while this episode did not have contestants feasting on raw goat eyes, it nevertheless has plenty to grab your eyeballs.After a gut-churning episode nine last week, viewers were understandably unsure about what the latest edition of the Himalaya Roadies would have in store. And while this episode did not have contestants feasting on raw goat eyes, it nevertheless has plenty to grab your eyeballs.
Still based out of Pokhara, this week’s show began—like it usually does—with a scroll. The contestants were then ushered to the outskirts of the Lake City where a short but daunting obstacle course awaited them. The show is now down to 10 contestants and the roadies were split into two groups and asked to complete the course together as a team, with their hands and legs bound to each other. But if the obstacle course appeared challenging on first look, it ended up being one of the easier “money task” yet and both the teams were able to complete the course in the allotted time—bagging a total of Rs 250,000. This now takes the money pot to an eye-watering Rs 420,000. The eventual winner of the show will walk away with whatever money is accumulated through the various “money tasks” during the course of the show.
The joy of successfully completing the task did not however last long, as it was immediately followed by a vote out round where not one but two Roadies faced the axe. After a dramatic vote-out, Prasot Kandel and Rupam Mishra were booted out in what was the first double elimination of the show.
Eight aspiring contestants now remain competing for the honour of becoming the first ever Himalaya Roadie. Himalaya Roadies is the Nepali edition of the popular Indian reality TV show MTV Roadies. Licensed for Nepal by Via Com 18, the show will run the length of 18 episodes.
Himalaya Roadies airs every Monday at 8 pm on Himalaya TV.