HISTORY® Brings ‘Mountainous’ Event to Union Square in NYC
To promote the second season premiere of the hit series, Mountain Men on June 9 at 9pm ET, HISTORY brings a taste of the mountains to Union Square.
WHAT: It’s not every day city-dwellers get to trek through the forest in the middle of Manhattan!
HISTORY has designed and created a mountain in the city where consumers can experience living in the wild. Guests can walk through the footprint and learn the trades of survival with on-site activities such as rock climbing, boot camp demos, and hiking tips from experts, to name a few.
WHEN: Thursday, June 6th 2013 - Rain or Shine
10:00AM – 7:00PM ET
WHERE: Union Square, North Plaza
VISUALS: Event will have numerous photo and video friendly opportunities throughout the day:
Turtle Island
Main Stage in the center of the experience. Programming will include, but not be limited to, bootcamp
demos courtesy of Bootcamp Republic, survival skills demos courtesy of Appalachian Mountain Club, live
music sets featuring various local artists, and much more!
The Campfire/Tom’s Cabin
Campfire and hiking gear on display, courtesy of The North Face, featuring their staff and experts
Tom’s Tannery
Prop area consisting of synthetic rawhides, bows, and arrows
Teton Mountain Range and Blue Ridge Mountains
(2) Mobile rock climbing walls, one of which is courtesy of Brooklyn Boulders featuring their staff and experts
Yaak Valley
Consumer photo op in the middle of the mountains
Marty’s Winter Home Base
Sampling from Head & Shoulders Active Sport
Ruby Valley
Sampling from the Kind Snacks Jeep
The Trapline
· Fly fishing 101 demonstrations provided by Orvis
ABOUT MOUNTAIN MEN: Season 2 of MOUNTAIN MEN, premiering Sunday, June 9 at 9pm ET on HISTORY, follows the real-life challenges of living off the land, far from civilization, where it takes survival skills and sheer cunning just to stay fed, clothed…and alive. For more info visit: www.history.com/mountainmen
MOUNTAIN MEN is produced for HISTORY by Warm Springs Productions. Russ McCarroll is Executive Producer for HISTORY. Executive Producers for Warm Springs are Marc Pierce and Chris Richardson.
ABOUT HISTORY: HISTORY®, now reaching more than 98 million homes, is the leading destination for award-winning original series and specials that connect viewers with history in an informative, immersive and entertaining manner across all platforms. The network’s all-original programming slate, including scripted event programming, features a roster of hit series including American Pickers®, American Restoration™, Ax Men™, Counting Cars™, Ice Road Truckers®, Pawn Stars®, Swamp People® and Top Shot® as well as HISTORY®’s first scripted series Vikings, and epic miniseries and special programming such as The Bible and the Emmy® Award-winning Hatfields & McCoys, Gettysburg, Vietnam in HD, America The Story of Us® and 102 Minutes That Changed America. The HISTORY® website is the leading online resource for all things history, and in 2011, the United States Library of Congress selected HISTORY®’s Civil War 150 site for inclusion in the historic collection of Internet materials related to the American Civil War sesquicentennial.
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