The History Channel has updated its website and schedule for the the return of one of its toughest and most popular reality series, Ice Road Truckers.

Set to return Sunday nights on May 31, new episodes of Ice Road Truckers take the show's cameras from the diamond mines and frozen highways of Canada's Northwest Territories north to the oil fields of Alaska.

Previous seasons featured rugged truck drivers (like Hugh "The Polar Bear" Rowland, right) braving subzero temperatures to drive rigs weighing thousands of tons over ice pathways smoothed out over frozen lakes.

It's proved a rare treat for reality TV fans (especially guys) looking to escape the whining of America's Next Top Model or the tired scheming of Survivor. The contest on Ice Road Truckers is simple. The toughest driver who most skillfully carries the most tonnage over the ice before the highway beneath his wheels melts away wins. Just keep your tired truck on the road and out of the deadly water, and you have a good chance of getting home with some good money.

The upcoming third season adds some new faces to the chilly convoy, including the lovely and talented Lisa Kelly and Cajun Carey Hall. We'll see how producers handle the potential fireworks over including the show's first beautiful woman and African American drivers in a very butch and very white part of the world.

They may not need to "handle it" at all as one of Ice Road Truckers' top selling points is its genuine reality. If this show was fixed, we'd have semis falling through the ice and stacking up on the bottom of frozen lakes like cord wood. Instead, we get to see the honest struggles of hard working men and women in a brutal environment. And, for any viewers born in the Midwest or the Great White North, it's like watching your crazier relatives on TV.