Britt Ahart's Alone Season 5 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Britt Ahart's run ended in Alone Season 5.

Britt Ahart came back. Two seasons after tapping out at day 35 in Alone Season 3, the Mantua, Ohio contestant returned for Alone Season 5, "Redemption," in Mongolia's Khonin Nuga valley, and lasted more than 20 days longer than his first attempt: 56 days, tapping out again missing his family. This time it was good enough for 2nd place out of 10, runner-up to eventual winner Sam Larson. His contestant page has more on this run.

The full list

Item	What he brought	Brand/model
Knife	Becker BK7	Ka-Bar, Becker BK7
Multitool	Leatherman Wave	Leatherman, Wave
Paracord	General utility	Not recorded
Fishing kit	Line and hooks	Not recorded
Pot	Cooking	Not recorded
Ferro rod	Fire starter	Not recorded
Sleeping bag	Sleep system	Not recorded
Bow and arrows	Samick Sage, 50 lb draw	Samick, Sage
Saw	Big Boy folding saw	Big Boy
Wire	Trapping and utility	Not recorded

Ahart's Season 5 list carries the same Becker BK7 knife he used in Season 3, but everything around it changed. He added a Leatherman multitool and a bow, both absent from his first run, and swapped his old bow saw for a Big Boy folding model. The pot, fishing kit, paracord, sleeping bag, and wire don't have a recorded brand in the sourced data for this season.

What changed between his two runs

The clearest upgrade is the bow. Ahart carried no bow at all in Season 3 and relied on his fishing kit for protein; by Season 5 he had a Samick Sage recurve rated to a 50 lb draw, giving him a second hunting method his first attempt never had. Adding a multitool alongside his fixed knife also gave him more repair and utility options than his Season 3 kit, which carried no multitool at all.

His run this time ended the same way it had before, missing his family, but 21 days later than his first attempt and close enough to the win that he finished as runner-up. Third place that season, Larry Roberts, tapped out at day 41, also citing missing his family, while winner Sam Larson outlasted the entire field at 60 days. That's a season where the top three finishers all cited the same reason for leaving; the difference between them was how long each person could hold out against it.

The rest of the kit stayed close to what most contestants carry into the field: a pot, ferro rod, fishing kit, sleeping bag, and paracord for general utility. What set his Season 5 loadout apart wasn't a wholesale reinvention, it was two targeted additions, a bow and a multitool, layered onto a kit he already trusted.

A rare direct comparison

Not many contestants on this site get a second documented run to compare against, which makes Ahart's pair of gear lists unusually useful for anyone studying how returning contestants adjust. Between the two runs, he kept his knife, pot, sleeping bag, ferro rod, saw, and fishing kit categories, dropped nothing, and added a bow and a multitool. That's a small, deliberate set of changes rather than a full overhaul, and it lines up with a 21-day improvement in how long he lasted.

Where he ranked

Ahart's 2nd-place, 56-day finish in Season 5 was the best result of his two documented runs on this site, well ahead of his 35-day, 8th-place Season 3 result. Full details on how the rest of Season 5's field placed, including winner Sam Larson's own redemption arc after a Season 1 runner-up finish, are in the Season 5 guide, and every season's winner is listed on the winners page.