Who Is Clementino Pedrosa on Alone Season 13? Background and Gear

Alone season 13, subtitled Alone: World Championship, is still airing as of this post, so this is a background profile rather than a result. No outcome, placement, or day count for Clementino Pedrosa is included here because that has not aired yet.

Pedrosa is 40 years old (our data notes some outlets have listed his age as 41, with 40 used here based on the majority of directly sourced profiles), from Lisbon, and the first Portuguese contestant to compete on the Alone franchise. His military career began at 19, and he spent six years with Portugal's elite Paratroopers before attending Sergeant School for two years. Since 2011 he has served with the Portuguese Comandos, and for the past decade he has worked as a survival instructor training soldiers, a background that puts his wilderness skills on a fundamentally different footing than contestants whose bushcraft came from recreational hunting or homesteading. His deployments have taken him to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Central Africa, three very different operational environments that each demand their own kind of adaptability, from mountain cold to arid heat to dense forest terrain.

His gear for the World Championship

Season 13 is filming in the Richardson Mountains near Aklavik, in Canada's Northwest Territories, inside the Arctic Circle and roughly 150 km from where season 11 filmed near Inuvik. It's described in our data as one of the harshest environments the show has attempted, which makes gear selection especially consequential this season, and the $500,000 prize goes as a flat award to whoever outlasts the rest of the field, plus the title of first-ever Alone World Champion.

Pedrosa's full ten-item list is fully sourced in our records: a sleeping bag, a cooking pot, a ferro rod, a saw, an axe, a knife, a bow and arrows, snare wire, fishing line and hooks, and paracord. That's a well-rounded kit that covers fire, shelter, hunting, trapping, and fishing without leaning heavily toward any single survival strategy, which fits a survival instructor's training more than a specialist's gamble on one method.

Why his background stands out in this cast

A decade spent teaching survival to soldiers is a different kind of preparation than most Alone contestants bring, closer to a professional credential than a personal hobby or passion project. Combined with multiple overseas deployments in demanding climates, Pedrosa's profile reads as one of the more institutionally trained entries in the show's history, though training and television survival are not the same test, and plenty of highly credentialed contestants have not made it deep into past seasons. Being the first contestant from Portugal also adds a layer of national significance to his run that goes beyond his individual result, whatever that result turns out to be.

Where things stand

Because the season is still airing, any claim about how far Pedrosa gets, how he places, or how his run ends would be pure speculation, so none is made here. Check back on his contestant page as the season progresses for updates once results are confirmed.

Quick reference

Detail	Clementino Pedrosa, season 13
Age	40
Hometown	Lisbon, Portugal
Background	Portuguese Comandos sergeant, survival instructor
Gear list	Sleeping bag, pot, ferro rod, saw, axe, knife, bow and arrows, snare wire, fishing line, paracord
Placement	Not yet determined, season airing

For the rest of the World Championship cast, see the season 13 page. Our FAQ has more on how the show's gear selection rules work, and where to watch covers current streaming options for season 13.