Where Is Gina Chick Now? After Winning Alone Australia Season 1

Spoiler note: this post covers the outcome of Alone Australia Season 1.

Gina Chick was 52 when she won the first season of Alone Australia, surviving 67 days in the South West Tasmania wilderness, longer than any of the nine other contestants. She reached the final two alongside solo adventurer Mike Atkinson, who was medically evacuated on day 64 due to low blood pressure and malnutrition, then passed her own medical check on day 67 and learned from her best friend Lee that she had won. It made her the first-ever Alone Australia champion, and only the second woman and oldest contestant to win any version of the Alone franchise worldwide. If you want the season breakdown, our Alone Australia Season 1 guide has it, along with more on the rest of that cast.

What she's doing now

Gina was a rewilding facilitator before the show, and that work has only expanded since. She now runs camps under names like Rewild Your Child and Thrive Survival Quests, based in Budawang Country, teaching hunter-gatherer and nature-connection skills to both adults and kids. She also works as a writer and public speaker, appearing on podcasts and doing keynote talks that draw on both her survival background and her broader life story.

She's also become an author. Her memoir has drawn attention well beyond the reality TV audience, including a public review from Hugh Jackman, and it was longlisted for the Indie Book Awards. There have been discussions of an international release for the book as well, which suggests her story has legs beyond Australia.

On a more personal note, Gina has spoken publicly about the grief of losing a child years earlier, and that experience appears to inform a lot of the resilience-and-connection framing in her current work. She's also been seen taking personal trips into remote parts of Australia, staying close to the kind of country that shaped her run on the show.

Why her win still resonates

Gina's win mattered for reasons beyond the days-survived number. She was older than most of her competitors, she came in as a facilitator rather than a hunter or bushcraft specialist by trade, and she won on endurance and mental steadiness rather than out-hunting the field. That combination has made her one of the more discussed winners across the whole franchise, not just the Australian branch of it.

Her post-show path also tracks logically from who she already was going in. She didn't pivot into something unrelated after the show. She scaled up the same rewilding and nature-connection work she'd been doing for years, with a much bigger platform behind it.

For more on how her season compares to the rest of the franchise, our winners page has every champion across every version of Alone, and the FAQ covers common questions about how the international versions differ from the original US show. As of mid-2026, Gina Chick remains one of the franchise's most visible and active alumni, still doing the same kind of work that got her through Tasmania in the first place.