Everything Alan Tenta Carried to Win Alone Season 10

Spoiler note: this covers who won season 10.

Alan Tenta, a 52-year-old high school teacher from Columbia Valley, British Columbia, won season 10 by surviving 66 days on Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan, the show's coldest, most northern setting up to that point. He never actually tapped out. Producers flew in his wife Lisa alongside the medical team, ostensibly for a routine checkup, and that's how he found out he'd won: he was the last contestant still standing on the lake. He lost roughly 78 pounds over the 66 days and survived primarily on fish, using a smoker he built to cache food against the winter ahead.

The ten items

Item	What he brought	Verified
Axe	Hults Bruk trekking hatchet	Yes
Saw	Silky Katanaboy 500 folding saw	Yes
Paracord	550 paracord	Yes
Ferro rod	No brand specified in the record	Yes
Snare wire	No brand specified in the record	Yes
Fishing kit	Line and hooks	Yes
Pot	Stainless steel	Yes
Multitool	Leatherman	Yes
Sleeping bag	Minus-40-rated, waterproof	Yes
Bow and arrows	Longbow, 6 broadheads, 3 small-game tips	Yes

The list is flagged complete in our records, and you can see it laid out the same way on Tenta's contestant page.

A list built around redundancy, not specialization

What stands out about Tenta's kit is that he carried tools for three separate food-acquisition methods at once: a fishing kit, a longbow with both broadhead and small-game tips, and snare wire for trapping. That's a deliberate hedge. If one method wasn't producing on a given week, he had two others already in play rather than needing to improvise a new one from scratch. The three-tip arrow setup alone, six broadheads for big game plus three small-game tips, shows the same logic applied inside a single item: cover more than one size of target with the tools already in the kit.

The rest of the list supports a long, cold stay rather than a fast one. The Hults Bruk axe and Silky folding saw handled both his teepee-style shelter and the firewood needed to run a smoker through the fall, and the minus-40-rated sleeping bag matched a lake known for being one of the coldest settings the show had used at that point. Tenta himself summed up the mental side of it plainly: "I always had a plan. I committed myself that I was not going to tap out as long as I had food."

How the finish compared

Runner-up James "Wyatt" Black lasted 64 days before deciding his journey felt complete, two days short of Tenta's finish. Third-place Mikey Helton was medically evacuated on day 55 due to severe hypothermia risk. Tenta's margin over second place was thin by the numbers, but the fact that he never tapped out and never faced a medical pull sets his run apart from both of the contestants directly behind him.

For how the fishing kit and bow show up across other winning lists, the gear database breaks down each category on its own page, and every other winner's kit is collected on the winners page.