The Alone Season 10 Cast: Where Are They Now

Spoiler note: this post covers who won Alone Season 10.

Season 10 dropped ten contestants on Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan, the show's coldest and most northern location up to that point. It premiered in June 2023, the prize was the standard $500,000, and the season came down to a teacher who simply refused to stop fishing. Here is the full cast, in order of finish, and what each of them has been doing since. The Season 10 page has the complete season breakdown.

Contestant	Placement	Days
Alan Tenta	1st	66
James "Wyatt" Black	2nd	64
Mikey Helton	3rd	55
Melanie Sawyer	4th	43
Tarcisio "Taz" Ramos Dos Santos	5th	40
Cade Cole	6th	23
Jodi Rose	7th	22
Luke Joseph Olsen	8th	20
Ann Rosenquist	9th	19
Lee Ray DeWilde	10th	18

The winner and the runner-up

Alan Tenta won it at age 52, a high school teacher from Columbia Valley, British Columbia who lasted 66 days, lost 78 pounds, and lived primarily on fish he cached in a smoker for the coming winter. Since the show, he has leaned into speaking and content work: as of mid-2026 he does keynote talks on resilience and outdoor education and runs a YouTube channel under the Tenta Outdoors name, while still teaching.

James "Wyatt" Black pushed Tenta all the way, leaving on day 64 when he felt his journey was complete. He owns the home renovation business Maple Creek Renovations in Bracebridge, Ontario and holds the patent behind the Gold Fury fishing lure line, and he was the only Season 10 contestant without formal survivalist or trapper training. He and Tenta reportedly stayed friendly after the season, to the point of planning fishing trips together.

Third through fifth

Mikey Helton, who grew up exploring the wilderness and often living without modern conveniences, made it 55 days before a medical evacuation over severe hypothermia risk. Melanie Sawyer, a former model born in the U.K. who now lives off the grid in upstate New York, chose to leave on day 43 feeling her journey was complete. Tarcisio "Taz" Ramos Dos Santos, raised in Brazil largely without running water or electricity, held on for 40 days before starvation ended his run.

The first half of the field

Cade Cole, a conservationist and expert hunter and tracker from Crowheart, Wyoming, was medically evacuated on day 23 after losing consciousness. Jodi Rose, who runs the furniture business Wild River Tables and raises five children on a cattle ranch on the Wind River Indian Reservation, tapped out on day 22 out of homesickness for her family.

Luke Joseph Olsen, a glass artist and divemaster from Maui who was raised at his family's Idaho hot springs resort, left on day 20 with intestinal problems. His name came back into the franchise conversation two seasons later, when his brother Nathan won Season 12. Ann Rosenquist, an off-the-grid organic farmer from northern Wisconsin, was done on day 19 after starvation and heart-related symptoms. Lee Ray DeWilde, a pilot and former high school principal, one of fourteen children raised in the wilderness along the Yukon, Koyukuk, and Huslia rivers, went out first on day 18 as starvation compounded the emotional strain.

Why this cast holds up

The pattern of Season 10 is worth noticing: the two men who stayed longest were the schoolteacher and the renovation contractor, not the field's most credentialed bushcrafters. Endurance seasons in cold northern locations tend to reward steady food systems over flashy skills, and Tenta's smoker full of cached fish is a textbook example. If you want to see how his 66 days stack up against every other champion, our winners page lists them all, and the rules page explains exactly how the last-person-standing format works.