Alone Season 5 Episode Guide: Every Episode, Recapped

Spoiler note: this covers every episode of Season 5, including who won.

Season 5 is the franchise's first "Redemption" season: all ten contestants were non-winners from Seasons 1 through 4, dropped into the Khonin Nuga valley of northern Mongolia, the show's first Asian location. It ran 10 episodes on History from June 14 to August 16, 2018.

#	Title	Air date
1	Redemption	2018-06-14
2	The Haunting	2018-06-21
3	The Serpent	2018-06-28
4	Mongolia's Wrath	2018-07-05
5	The Bowels Of Hell	2018-07-12
6	Of Mice And Men	2018-07-19
7	Desperate Measures	2018-07-26
8	Slayer II	2018-08-02
9	Starvation's Shadow	2018-08-09
10	Cold War	2018-08-16

Episode-by-episode

1. "Redemption." Ten returning contestants meet completely unfamiliar terrain in the Khonin Nuga valley, and old wounds from their first runs drive new strategies.

2. "The Haunting." The veterans discover experience doesn't transfer cleanly; Mongolia's forest-steppe brings different food, predators, and rules, and early psychological ghosts resurface fast.

3. "The Serpent." Venomous snakes and aggressive wildlife raise the stakes around camp, and the cast balances food work against hazards their previous seasons never taught them.

4. "Mongolia's Wrath." Continental weather hits with a violence the coastal veterans haven't seen, heat, storms, and hard temperature swings that damage shelters and nerves alike.

5. "The Bowels Of Hell." Physical breakdown starts compounding as digestive trouble, injuries, and caloric deficits grind the field down.

6. "Of Mice And Men." Small game and smaller margins define the food economy as contestants trap rodents and birds; the valley gives out calories in coins, not windfalls.

7. "Desperate Measures." With reserves gone, the remaining survivalists take risks they'd have refused in week one: longer ranges, bigger projects, thinner safety margins.

8. "Slayer II." Deep-run isolation works on the finalists' minds; the title nods to a contestant's bow, but the content is the loneliness that experience can't inoculate against.

9. "Starvation's Shadow." The last contestants are visibly hollowed out, rationing energy for the few tasks that still matter, with medical checks becoming the biggest threat left standing.

10. "Cold War." Britt Ahart taps at 56 days, and Sam Larson, the Season 1 runner-up who lost by a single day, completes his redemption arc by winning at 60 days.

Reading the data

The source file's own confidence note is worth flagging here: three medical evacuations happened somewhere in this season (Jesse Bosdell on day 24, Nicole Apelian on day 9, and Carleigh Fairchild on day 5), but Wikipedia's season article doesn't tie any of them to a specific episode number, so this guide doesn't guess at placement. Only the finale's tap-out (Britt Ahart, day 56) is confirmed episode-by-episode. Carleigh Fairchild's day-5 exit here, after an 86-day run in Season 3, is one of the starkest same-person swings in the show's history.

For the full cast list and how this Redemption format compares to a standard season, see the Season 5 hub and where to watch every season currently streaming. If you want the wider context on how a five-season character arc like Larson's stacks up against the rest of the franchise, the best Alone winners of all time, ranked covers where his conserve-everything strategy fits among the field.