Survival Show Guide

Alone Season 7 Episode Guide: Every Episode, Recapped

2026-07-04

Spoiler note: this covers every episode of Season 7, including who won.

Season 7, "Million Dollar Challenge," changed the format entirely: instead of outlasting everyone else, contestants competed to reach a fixed 100 days for a $1 million prize. It ran 11 episodes on History from June 11 to August 20, 2020, filmed along the rocky east arm of Great Slave Lake.

# Title Air date
1 Million Dollar Mistake 2020-06-11
2 The Rock House 2020-06-18
3 That Was No Bunny 2020-06-25
4 The Fly 2020-07-02
5 The Rock 2020-07-09
6 The Musk Ox 2020-07-16
7 Snared 2020-07-23
8 Up In Smoke 2020-07-30
9 The Wolves 2020-08-06
10 Pins and Needles 2020-08-13
11 Over the Edge 2020-08-20

Episode-by-episode

1. "Million Dollar Mistake." Ten survivalists are dropped by helicopter onto the rocky east arm of Great Slave Lake to attempt the new 100-day, $1 million format, sizing up local predator risk from day one.

2. "The Rock House." Focus shifts to upgrading temporary shelters into structures that can hold through the season, and Shawn Helton loses his fire starter and judges he can't reliably make fire through the winter without it, becoming the first to leave on day 10.

3. "That Was No Bunny." Several survivalists lean hard into fishing, and Correy Hawk tears his meniscus and partially tears a knee ligament after slipping on a rock, medically evacuated on day 12.

4. "The Fly." Food comes easier for the group, but contaminated meat leaves Keith Syers with severe food poisoning and an infection, medically evacuated on day 22.

5. "The Rock." Easier food sources dry up and choppy water makes fishing riskier, pushing at least one contestant toward pursuing bigger game. No one leaves this episode.

6. "The Musk Ox." Roland Welker takes down a bull musk ox with his bow around day 29, transforming his food situation just as predators start raiding caches with early winter arriving.

7. "Snared." Predator pressure keeps forcing camp adjustments as trapping becomes a bigger part of the daily routine, and Joel Van Der Loon taps out on day 40 after weeks of accumulating starvation.

8. "Up In Smoke." Mark D'Ambrosio voluntarily leaves on day 44 citing how much he missed his son (later diagnosed with trichinosis after leaving), and Joe Nicholas taps out the same day, worn down by cold, exhaustion, and hunger.

9. "The Wolves." Icy rocks and unpredictable water make every food-gathering trip a bigger gamble, and Amós Rodriguez taps out on day 58 after severe, prolonged starvation; his shelter reportedly burns down shortly after he leaves.

10. "Pins and Needles." Deep winter conditions make food harder to find than ever, and Kielyn Marrone's run ends on day 80 after losing nearly all her body fat.

11. "Over the Edge." In the finale, Callie Russell is medically evacuated on day 89 for worsening frostbite, about 11 days short of the finish, while Roland Welker completes the full 100-day challenge and learns he's won when his sister treks out to his camp to tell him.

Reading the data

This season's source file is explicit that no source states which episode each tap-out aired in, so the day-range boundaries and episode placements above are a best-effort reconstruction built from day-count order and thematic matches to official episode blurbs, not confirmed primary-source fact. The tap-out days and reasons themselves come directly from Wikipedia's season article, cross-checked against contestant profile pieces.

For how this 100-day format compares to a normal last-one-standing season, see our full rules breakdown, the Season 7 hub, and Callie Russell's profile. This finale also ranks among the best Alone episodes ever aired, and the winners page has the full list of who's taken home the prize across every season.

More in the Field Journal or start with the season guides.