Who Is Tarcisio "Taz" Ramos Dos Santos from Alone Season 10? What Happened

Spoiler note: this covers how Taz's season 10 run ended.

Tarcisio "Taz" Ramos Dos Santos lives in Becket, Massachusetts, but per his contestant page, he was born and raised in Brazil, in a household that mostly lacked running water or electricity. He was 35 when he competed on Alone season 10, filmed at Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan, and that early-life experience living without modern utilities is a real point of difference from contestants whose bushcraft comes from courses and guiding work rather than childhood necessity.

His run at Reindeer Lake

Taz finished fifth of ten, lasting 40 days before starvation forced him out. Early on he had some success fishing and hunting, but he lost part of his food cache to scavengers and maggots, and a later attempt at bringing down big game did not pan out, which left him without enough calories to keep going. He has said he hoped to use the prize money to bring his two children from Brazil to the United States, which adds real stakes to a run that ultimately came down to a food supply problem rather than a single dramatic failure.

His gear list is one of the fully sourced ones on this site, and it lines up with a fairly standard Saskatchewan loadout: a ferro rod for fire, a bow and arrows and fishing line and hooks for food, snare wire for trapping, plus an axe, multitool, cooking pot, paracord, tarp, and sleeping bag rounding out the ten-item allowance.

Detail	Taz, season 10
Placement	5th of 10
Days lasted	40
Location	Reindeer Lake, northern Saskatchewan
Reason for ending run	Starvation

Taz's exit sits inside a bigger pattern from that cast: three of the ten contestants on season 10, Taz, Ann Rosenquist in ninth, and Lee Ray DeWilde in tenth, all cited starvation as the reason their run ended, which makes that Reindeer Lake location a genuinely hard one for calories relative to some other seasons. Winner Alan Tenta, by contrast, never tapped out at all; producers flew in his wife for what was framed as a routine medical check, which is how he found out he had won at day 66.

Life since the show

As of mid-2026, Taz has built a varied life around the outdoors and community work. He is reported to work as a direct support professional, taking individuals on the autism spectrum on hiking excursions along the Appalachian Trail and helping them build gardens, learn music, and practice outdoor skills. He also plays in Samba Trio, a traditional Brazilian music group that has performed around Western Massachusetts, and he has reportedly moved into a treehouse where he homesteads in his free time. He has also been connected to the Quilombo Experience Residency, an artist community project, according to his social media presence.

That mix, wilderness education for a population that does not usually get outdoor programming built around it, plus music and homesteading, is a fairly direct extension of the resourcefulness that got him to day 40 on Reindeer Lake. For how his season compares to the winning run, Alan Tenta's 66-day win is covered above, and our best axe and best survival knife guides break down the category of tools Taz and the rest of that cast were choosing from.