Who Is Biko Wright from Alone Season 8? What Happened

Spoiler note: this covers Biko Wright's placement and how his season 8 run ended.

Biko Wright is a survivalist from Otis, Oregon, best known for finishing runner-up on season 8, filmed at Chilko Lake in British Columbia. Our normalized data records one of the more emotionally loaded backstories in the show's history: his fiancee learned she was expecting twin daughters just before he left for the competition, and the girls, Xyla and Nixie, were born on February 5, 2021, while Biko was still out on the mountain.

He placed second overall, lasting 73 days before being medically evacuated by air for a heart condition brought on by malnutrition, one of the longer and more physically taxing runs in the show's history.

Chilko Lake, the season's location in British Columbia, is a large, deep glacial lake that gave contestants strong fishing access but also demanded serious cold-weather shelter and fire discipline over more than two months in the field. A 73-day finish that close to the winner puts Biko among the more resilient runner-up finishes in the franchise's history.

His gear

Biko's is one of the more fully documented gear lists in our data, marked complete with all ten items recorded.

Item	Detail
Sleeping bag	Rated to -30F, synthetic fill
Ferro rod	Standard fire starter
Pot	Aluminum Dutch oven style
Axe	For processing wood and shelter material
Saw	Silky Katanaboy
Multitool	Leatherman Surge
Bow and arrows	Maverick bow, 55 pound draw
Paracord	General utility cordage
Fishing kit	Line and hooks
Snare wire	For small game trapping

That is a well-rounded loadout across fire, shelter, hunting, and fishing, with no obvious gaps, which fits a 73-day run that put him in the final two. The -30F sleeping bag rating in particular reflects genuine cold-weather preparation, and a 55 pound draw bow is on the stronger end of what contestants have brought for taking larger game.

Life after Chilko Lake

As of mid-2026, Biko lives in the woods of western Oregon with his wife Erin and their two daughters, Xyla and Nixie, where reporting describes the family practicing sustainable living and rescuing animals. He has also built a music career since the show, fronting the metal band Sirion and the folk project Endelos, and he maintains a YouTube channel documenting backcountry trips along with a Cameo presence for fan messages.

That combination, hands-on homesteading plus a public creative career, is a fairly distinct post-show path compared to contestants who go into straight survival instruction, and it lines up with how Biko presented himself on camera during his run. He is also reported to have done collaborative work with at least one outdoor gear maker since his appearance, a common post-show route for high-finishing contestants whose runs demonstrated clear equipment expertise on screen.

Where his season fits

For the full season 8 cast, including the winner who beat Biko to the finish, our season 8 page has the complete placements. If you want to compare his loadout against other high-finishing contestants, our gear guides cover how items like a rated sleeping bag or a full-draw bow tend to correlate with longer runs, and our winners page rounds up every season champion to date.