The Alone Season 8 Cast: Where Are They Now

Spoiler note: this post covers who won Alone Season 8.

Season 8 took the show to Chilko Lake, British Columbia, its first high-elevation alpine location. It premiered June 3, 2021 with the standard $500,000 prize, and it came down to a single day: Clay Hayes won at 74 days, one day past runner-up Biko Wright's 73. The season overview is on our Season 8 page.

The full cast, ordered by placement:

Contestant	Placement	Days	Background
Clay Hayes	1	74	Bowyer and archery instructor
Biko Wright	2	73	Oregon outdoorsman
Theresa Emmerich Kamper	3	69	Experimental archaeologist
Colter Barnes	4	67	Homesteading educator
Rose Anna Moore	5	37	Nonprofit founder
Nate Weber	6	24	Michigan outdoorsman
Matt Corradino	7	22	Survival school owner
Michelle Finn	8	21	Former bushcraft instructor
Jordon Bell	9	19	Carpenter
Tim Madsen	10	6	Wyoming outdoorsman

The winner and the one-day margin

Clay Hayes, a professional bowyer who has taught traditional archery since building his first bow in 1999, hunted Chilko Lake with a self-made Osage orange selfbow, killed a deer during the season, and faced down a grizzly along the way. His post-show trajectory has been the most visible of the cast: as of mid-2026 he runs a YouTube channel reported at roughly half a million subscribers, keeps making bows and books, lives on a North Idaho homestead with his wife and two sons, and returned for the Alone: The Skills Challenge spinoff.

Biko Wright lasted 73 days before being medically evacuated with heart trouble brought on by malnutrition. The emotional core of his season happened off-screen: his twin daughters were born in February 2021 while he was still on the mountain.

The other deep runs

Theresa Emmerich Kamper, who holds a PhD in experimental archaeology from the University of Exeter and specializes in traditional hide tanning, was evacuated near starvation on day 69. Colter Barnes, who spent 14 years homesteading in the roadless Alaskan bush, made day 67 before a low BMI ended his run. Rose Anna Moore blacked out and was evacuated with frostbite and malnutrition on day 37; back in Pennsylvania she runs This Is My Quest, a nonprofit teaching outdoor skills to young people.

The early exits

Nate Weber lost roughly 35 pounds before contaminated drinking water and food poisoning pulled him out on day 24. Matt Corradino, who runs the Caribbean Earth Skills survival school on St. Croix, tapped for his family on day 22. Michelle Finn left on day 21 after starvation outpaced her foraging, then got a second act: she finished runner-up on the Alone: Frozen spinoff at 38 days. Jordon Bell, the Tennessee carpenter with nine years of Alaska adventures behind him, tapped for home on day 19. Tim Madsen was the first out, evacuated on day 6 with chest pain; the exact cause was never officially confirmed.

The takeaway

Season 8 is the show's best case study in specialist depth: a bowyer won with a bow he made himself, and three of the top five were professional educators in pre-industrial skills. Our winners page shows where the 74-day win sits historically, and the Alone: Frozen page covers what Michelle Finn did next.