THE SUMMIT Exclusive Clip: Can the Contestants Scale a Cliff?

“An Unexpected Storm” – After a weather delay pauses the group’s progress, they set out to try and make up for lost time. When they reach an obstacle that forces them to split into pairs, one Leader and one Follower, to traverse a steep cliff, one trekker is left to face the challenge alone, bringing alliances and connections into question, on THE SUMMIT, Wednesday, Oct. 23 (9:30-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs). Manu Bennett serves as host. Pictured: Beckylee Rawls. Photo: CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Highest quality screengrab available.

On the Wednesday, October 23 episode of THE SUMMIT, the remaining contestants are given a new task: They have to climb a terrifying cliff—while paired up, with one person being the official Leader and the other the Follower.

“I’m a little bit nervous because we’ve got a lot of people who do not like heights, and that’s going to slow us all down,” Robert says in an exclusive clip from the episode below.

“This is a primal kind of terrifying because you’re hanging off the side of a cliff,” Jennye notes.

And as she makes the journey up the cliff, well…it does not go well. Jennye quickly gets nervous about the situation and decides she can’t go on. “I am hanging off the side of the mountain, and I am going to stay here until someone comes and gets me,” she insists mid-climb.

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