Where Is Alan Tenta Now? Life After Winning Alone Season 10

Spoiler note: this covers who won season 10.

Alan Tenta won season 10 at age 52, a high school teacher from the Columbia Valley in British Columbia who lasted 66 days on Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan. His edge was redundancy. He carried a fishing kit, a longbow, and snare wire so that when one food method went cold he still had two others, then built a smoker and cached fish for the winter. He lost roughly 78 pounds over the run. The full list of what he brought is on his contestant page, and I broke the whole kit down in everything Alan Tenta carried.

Tenta never actually tapped out. He was the last person standing, and producers flew his wife Lisa in alongside the medical team under the pretext of a routine check. When he saw her, he learned he had won. Runner-up James "Wyatt" Black left at day 64 feeling his journey was complete, and third-place Mikey Helton was medically evacuated at day 55.

Placement	Contestant	Days lasted	Outcome
1	Alan Tenta	66	Won, $500K prize
2	James "Wyatt" Black	64	Left, journey complete
3	Mikey Helton	55	Medically evacuated

What he has been up to since

Tenta went back to the classroom. As of mid-2026 he is reported to still be teaching in the Columbia Valley, at David Thompson Secondary School in Invermere, where he has championed outdoor education, and he has said part of his motivation for competing was to inspire his students. That detail fits the calm, teacher-brain approach he ran the season on: a stated plan, a refusal to tap out as long as he had food, and a lot of patience.

He also built a small outdoor-media presence. He runs a YouTube channel, Tenta Outdoors, where he posts recaps of his own episodes with behind-the-scenes stories and trivia, and the same brand is used for public speaking. Coverage after the win noted he put some of the $500,000 toward outdoor pursuits, including a boat. I am describing the speaking and channel as reported, since a personal channel is a snapshot rather than a fixed schedule, but the through-line is consistent: he stayed a teacher and turned the win into a way to teach a bigger room.

Why his run stands out

Tenta is the winner who proves the game is often lost, not won. He did not need a moose or a dramatic hunt. He needed to not quit and to not run a calorie deficit he could not recover from, and he engineered his kit and his mindset around exactly that. The smoker and the fish cache were the survival equivalent of showing your work: instead of gorging on a big catch and hoping, he preserved food against the winter he assumed was coming. It is also worth noting he was one of two Canadian finalists that season, in a Canadian location, on a US show, which is part of why the win got real coverage north of the border.

For how his 66 days compares to the rest of the field, the winners roundup has every champion, and the gear database shows how often the redundancy-first loadout he ran ends up on the winning side.