Tuesday, the Beijing Express adventure show is back on M6. Fifteen years after its first broadcast, Stéphane Rotenberg returned on Tuesday in "L'Équipée sauvage", on his first stage in Russia, in the middle of Red Square. He said why it was impossible to know where the candidates between Estonia and Moscow were and when he was going to arrive in Red Square.

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After fifteen years of existence, the adventure program Pékin Express , returns Tuesday evening on M6. For the occasion, the channel called on fourteen emblematic candidates for the program. This time, their mission will be to reach Beijing from Moscow. So let's go back in the footsteps of the first edition of Pékin Express, still hosted by Stéphane Rotenberg. At the microphone of Matthieu Noël, he spoke on Tuesday of his first stage in Russia, in the middle of Red Square, in Moscow.

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"At the time, the means of transmission were not as sophisticated as today so we did not know if the candidates were going to arrive," explains Stéphane Rotenberg. "We had released them on the border between Estonia and Russia and for three days, we had no news of them." Even if "assistants equipped with walkie-talkies" awaited the arrival of the candidates, Stéphane Rotenberg remembers having "waited five hours" between the arrival of the first and the last candidates.

Avoid drunk or armed drivers

By crossing Russia, candidates exposed themselves to several risks that did not exist in France. "Sometimes people are armed and wander around with a gun, or with a gun under the seat," says Stéphane Rotenberg. "It was therefore necessary to select", according to him, the volunteer drivers to welcome the hitchhiking candidates. Another valid reason to be extra vigilant: the "fascinating tolerance for drunk driving" in Russia.