Teimojin Tan's Alone Season 9 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Season 9 ended and where Teimojin Tan finished.

Teimojin Tan brought a physician's precision to Season 9. He is a doctor and former Canadian Armed Forces corporal from Montreal who later launched a "Survival Doctors" channel teaching medical emergency skills, and that background of methodical, health-focused thinking shows up in a gear list built for sustained self-care as much as raw survival. He tapped out after 63 days, missing his family, to finish third behind winner Juan Pablo Quiñonez (78 days) and runner-up Karie Lee Knoke (75 days). His full contestant profile has more on his background.

Sixty-three days is a strong result on its own, well clear of the pack behind him, even if the gap to the top two finishers was significant. His run took place on the same stretch of Big River in northern Labrador that tested the whole cast with cold, wet boreal conditions and limited fish runs early in the season.

The full list

Item	Brand/model	Notes
Sleeping bag	Not recorded	Insulation through a Labrador winter
Axe	Not recorded	Shelter building and firewood
Multitool	Not recorded	General repair tasks
Ferro rod	Not recorded	Fire starting
2-quart pot	Not recorded	Cooking and water
Bow and arrows	Not recorded	Hunting
Paracord	Not recorded	Shelter lashing and utility cordage
Trapping wire	Not recorded	Small-game snares
Fishing line and hooks	Not recorded	Long-term protein source
Emergency rations	Not recorded	Starter food buffer

No brand or model is publicly recorded for any of Tan's ten items, which puts him in the same boat as most of the field outside the top finisher or two. His list mirrors the same core structure that both Quiñonez and Knoke relied on: bow, fishing line and hooks, and trapping wire covering three separate food-gathering methods, backed by emergency rations as an early buffer. You can compare his category choices against the rest of the season on the bow and arrows, fishing line and hooks, and emergency rations pages.

A textbook loadout, cut short by homesickness

There is nothing unconventional here. Tan carried the same core categories, a sleeping bag, an axe, a bow, and layered backup food sources, that most of the season's longer-lasting contestants also chose. What separates his 63 days from Knoke's 75 or Quiñonez's 78 was not a different gear strategy; it was the same wall that catches so many contestants regardless of preparation. He tapped out missing his family, a reason with nothing to do with equipment failure or a lack of food. His medical background likely helped him self-monitor and avoid the kind of physical crisis that ended other runs earlier, but no amount of gear planning solves the pull of home after two months alone.

Season 9 in context

Tan's third-place finish sits in a season where the top three all cleared 60 days, an unusually tight cluster for this franchise. For the full comparison of what every recorded Season 9 contestant carried, our Season 9 gear roundup lays it out side by side, and alone-rules covers the ten-item cap and category restrictions every contestant works within.