Who Is Mary Kate Green from Alone Season 2? What Happened

Spoiler note: this covers Mary Kate Green's result on Alone season 2.

Mary Kate Green, 36 and from Homer, Alaska, was one of ten contestants on Alone season 2, filmed near Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island. Her run was one of the shortest of that season: she placed ninth, lasting 7 days before a serious injury ended her stay. Her full contestant record is on her contestant page.

What happened

Green's exit was medical rather than voluntary. Our data records her cause of exit as a split tendon from an axe injury, which required medical evacuation rather than a tap-out decision on her part. Reporting from the time she spoke publicly about the injury backs this up in more detail: she has described the wound as looking minor on camera but being considerably worse in reality, severe enough that she needed emergency care and could not treat or manage it herself in the field. That combination, a wound that reads as small on screen but is actually serious enough to require evacuation, is a recurring pattern in the show's medical exits, and it is part of why the production keeps a satellite phone and medical team on standby throughout every season.

An axe injury ending a run this early is also a useful reminder of how much risk is built into even routine camp tasks like splitting firewood, not just the higher-profile dangers like wildlife encounters or starvation that tend to dominate coverage of the show. Our gear page for the axe covers how the tool is used across seasons and why cutting injuries show up repeatedly in medical evacuation stories.

Where she is now

Public information about Green's life since season 2 is limited. She was reported at the time to be living in Homer, Alaska, and local coverage from her hometown newspaper framed her casting as a hometown story ahead of the season airing, but there is no clearly sourced, verifiable update on what she has done professionally or personally in the years since. Given how thin that trail is, it would not be honest to characterize her post-show life beyond what was reported around the time of the season itself.

How her run compares to the season's shortest stays

Season 2's field split fairly cleanly between contestants who lasted weeks or months and a handful who left within days. Green's ninth-place finish sits right at the edge of that second group.

Placement	Contestant	Days lasted	Reason for exit
8th	Tracy Wilson	8	Bear scare
9th	Mary Kate Green	7	Split tendon with axe (medically evacuated)
10th	Desmond White	0	Bear scare, found scat near camp and felt vulnerable without a weapon

What separates Green's exit from the two shortest stays in the table is that hers was not a decision at all. Wilson and White both chose to leave after feeling unsafe around bear activity, a judgment call within their control. Green's tendon injury took that choice away from her; the medical team made the call once she reported it.

The bigger picture

Season 2 is remembered partly for its eventual winner, David McIntyre, who won the season and died in November 2024, and partly for how many contestants that year were forced out by injury, wildlife scares, or homesickness rather than the show simply outlasting the competition on skill alone. Green's split tendon is one entry in that pattern, a reminder that even routine camp work carries real risk once medical evacuation is the only way out. For the full list of who won each season and how, our winners page has the complete history, and our alone rules page explains exactly how medical evacuations are handled and scored differently from a contestant choosing to leave on their own.