Who Won Alone Season 10? Alan Tenta's Win, Explained

Spoiler note: this covers who won Alone season 10.

Alan Tenta won season 10 of Alone, surviving 66 days on Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, to take the $500,000 prize. A 52-year-old high school teacher from Columbia Valley, British Columbia, he outlasted nine other contestants in what was, at the time, the show's coldest and most northern setting, per our season 10 page.

How the win happened

Tenta's approach was built on redundancy rather than betting everything on one food-gathering method. He carried tools for fishing, hunting, and trapping simultaneously, so that when one method went cold he had backups already in place instead of scrambling to improvise. He built a teepee-style shelter and a smoker, cached fish for the winter stretch of the season, and lost roughly 78 pounds by the finale, a significant toll even for a winning run.

His mental approach was as important as his gear. He's on record saying, "I always had a plan. I committed myself that I was not going to tap out as long as I had food," and that steady, plan-driven mindset carried him past runner-up James "Wyatt" Black at 64 days and third-place finisher Mikey Helton at 55.

The finish itself is one of the more unusual reveals in the franchise. Tenta never actually tapped out and was never medically evacuated. Producers flew his wife in under the guise of a routine medical check, and it was only when he saw her waiting at his camp that he learned he'd won, meaning he was still fully self-sufficient and had no plans to leave when the season ended for him. Some later aggregated summaries have mischaracterized his exit as a voluntary tap-out over family health concerns, but the original news coverage of his win is explicit that no tap-out or evacuation happened at all, and we're going with that primary-source account here.

The season itself ran 11 episodes from June to August 2023, and Reindeer Lake's far-northern setting made it, at the time, the coldest location the show had used. That climate is a big part of why Tenta's redundant food-gathering setup mattered as much as it did; a single failed method in that environment could mean weeks of hunger rather than a minor setback.

Key gear

Tenta's confirmed 10-item loadout leaned on named brands more than most winners. It included a Hults Bruk trekking hatchet, a Silky Katanaboy 500 folding saw, 550 paracord, a ferro rod, snare wire, a fishing kit with line and hooks, a stainless steel pot, a Leatherman multitool, a minus-40-rated waterproof sleeping bag, and a longbow with arrows split between 6 broadheads and 3 small-game tips. That longbow-and-arrow combination, paired with the fishing kit and snare wire, is exactly the redundant food-gathering setup his winner_story credits for the win: three separate methods running at once rather than one primary plan with no fallback.

Season snapshot

Placement	Contestant	Days lasted
1st (winner)	Alan Tenta	66
2nd	James "Wyatt" Black	64
3rd	Mikey Helton	55

For his full contestant page, the complete gear breakdown and bio are there in full, and everything Alan Tenta carried to win goes deeper on the gear specifically. To see what he's done since the win, where Alan Tenta is now covers his life post-show, and our winners page has every champion across the whole franchise.