Who Is Teimojin Tan from Alone Season 9? What Happened

Spoiler note: this covers how Teimojin Tan's season 9 run ended.

Teimojin Tan is a physician from Montreal, Quebec, and a former corporal in the Canadian Armed Forces, a background that gave him both medical training and a structured, disciplined approach going into Alone season 9. He was 31 when he competed at Big River in the Nunatsiavut region of northern Labrador, per his contestant page, and that combination of trauma medicine and military conditioning showed up throughout his run.

His run in Labrador

Tan finished third of ten, lasting 63 days, one of the longest runs of that season, before choosing to leave because he missed his family. That is a common way for Alone runs to end even when the contestant is not in visible physical distress, and it is a reminder that the isolation itself, not just hunger or injury, is often the harder problem to solve on this show.

His gear list is fully sourced on this site, and it is a fairly complete kit: a sleeping bag, axe, multitool, ferro rod, a 2-quart pot, a bow and arrows, paracord, trapping wire, fishing line and hooks, and emergency rations. That last item, carrying emergency rations as one of only ten allowed choices, is a fairly deliberate hedge for someone with a medical background who understands exactly how a caloric deficit compounds over two months.

Detail	Teimojin Tan, season 9
Placement	3rd of 10
Days lasted	63
Location	Big River, Nunatsiavut region, northern Labrador
Reason for ending run	Missed his family

His finish also stands out for how it ended compared to the rest of that Labrador cast. Runner-up Karie Lee Knoke lasted 75 days before starvation and exhaustion caught up with her, and fourth-place Adam Riley left at day 52 for the same reason. Tan is one of only a handful in that top five whose run ended by choice rather than by his body or the show's medical team forcing the issue, which lines up with a physician's read of his own numbers: he likely knew exactly how close to the edge he was and chose not to cross it.

Life since the show

As of mid-2026, Tan has built a public platform called Survival Doctors, which he has described as starting out as a keepsake project for his own children before growing into a broader effort focused on medical independence and self-reliance in emergencies. He is reported to continue practicing medicine at Grey Bruce Health Services while running Survival Doctors as a YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram presence teaching families how to handle medical emergencies in survival situations. He also reportedly sells FDA-approved emergency trauma first-aid equipment through an online store connected to the platform and works as a speaker and medical consultant.

That path, from a 63-day third-place finish to a public education platform built specifically around trauma medicine, tracks closely with the profile he brought into the season in the first place. For how his run stacks up against the rest of that Labrador cast, our contestant page on seventh-place finisher Terry Burns covers a very different exit, and our winners page has the full list of who has actually taken first place across the franchise.