Who Is Poldi Waldmann-Moloney on Alone Season 13? Background and Gear

Alone season 13, the show's first "World Championship" format, is still airing as of this post, so this profile covers who Poldi Waldmann-Moloney is and what he brought into the field, not how his run ends.

At 24 and from Hokitika, New Zealand, Waldmann-Moloney is the youngest contestant in season 13's cast and, per reporting around the season's casting, the first contestant on the flagship US version of Alone born in the 2000s. By day, he works as a whitewater kayaking instructor, a job that involves constant real-time problem solving in a physically demanding, unforgiving environment, which is a reasonable proxy for the improvisation Alone tends to reward.

What he brings to the Arctic

His real specialty, though, is archery. He's described as a skilled bow hunter who spends roughly 150 days a year stalking game and has taken well over 100 big-game animals with archery equipment, a volume of field time that few other contestants in the show's history can match. His fully recorded 10-item gear list leans directly into that strength: a cooking pot, a saw, bow and arrows, fishing line and hooks, an ax, a multitool, a ferro rod, paracord, snare wire, and a sleeping bag.

That's a well-rounded loadout, but the bow is clearly the centerpiece given his background, and it puts him in a similar category to other Alone contestants who came in as dedicated archery hunters rather than generalists. Season 13 is filmed in the Richardson Mountains of Canada's Northwest Territories, inside the Arctic Circle and roughly 150 kilometers from the season 11 filming site near Inuvik, one of the coldest and most remote locations the show has used.

Season 13 is also billed as Alone's first "World Championship," pulling together a cast the show describes as some of its strongest returning and international talent, with the standard $500,000 prize going to whoever outlasts the rest of the field plus the title of first-ever Alone World Champion. Being cast into that field as its youngest member, alongside contestants with far more Alone-specific experience, is its own kind of pressure separate from the cold itself.

Fact	Detail
Age	24 (youngest in the cast)
Hometown	Hokitika, New Zealand
Day job	Whitewater kayaking instructor
Specialty	Bow hunting, roughly 150 field days a year
Season	13, "World Championship"

Why he's worth watching

Waldmann-Moloney's combination of youth, a job built on split-second decision-making, and an unusually deep archery background makes him one of the more distinct profiles in a season already billed as bringing together the show's strongest returning and international talent. As of mid-2026, with the season still airing, there's no placement or outcome to report yet, and any claim about how far he goes would be pure speculation rather than something backed by our data or verifiable reporting.

What's notable going in is how narrow his skill set is compared to most first-time Alone contestants: rather than a generalist background in bushcraft, foraging, and fishing built up over years of casual outdoor living, his edge is one specific, heavily practiced discipline. Reporting on his casting frames that archery volume, well over 100 big-game animals taken with a bow, as a credential few other contestants in the show's history can match, which makes him worth tracking regardless of how the season eventually plays out.

To follow the season as it airs, where to watch has current streaming details, and the season page will be updated with the rest of the World Championship cast and results. The rules page explains how the show's format and item limits work if you're new to the series.