Who Won Alone Season 11? William Larkham Jr.'s Win, Explained

Spoiler note: this covers who won Alone season 11.

William Larkham Jr. won season 11 of Alone, lasting 84 days in the Mackenzie River Delta, roughly 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle near Inuvik, Northwest Territories, to take the $500,000 prize. A 49-year-old commercial fisherman, hunter, and trapper from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, he outlasted nine other contestants across 12 episodes, per our season 11 page, the longest winning run of any US season to that point.

How the win happened

Larkham's win came down to fish, not big game. Rather than leaning primarily on a bow the way several other contestants did, he drew on his commercial fishing background and built his food strategy around a homemade gill net and a fishing kit, which gave him a steady supply of protein in a delta environment that was genuinely rich in fish even that far north. That reliable food source, rather than any single dramatic hunt, is what let him grind out 84 days when the runner-up and third-place finisher both came close but ultimately couldn't match him.

The finish was tight by the franchise's standards. Runner-up Timber Cleghorn lasted 83 days and voluntarily withdrew after hitting his own personal goals, only one day behind Larkham. Third-place finisher Dub Paetz made it to 80 days before leaving due to the effects of prolonged starvation and isolation. A four-day spread across the top three after nearly three months alone is one of the closest finishes among completed seasons.

Larkham's kit was also one of the most expensive documented on the show, estimated at over $2,100 total, a reminder that gear budget and win probability aren't strictly linked; several cheaper loadouts across the franchise have outlasted more expensive ones.

The season ran 12 episodes from June to August 2024, and the Mackenzie River Delta setting, roughly 125 miles above the Arctic Circle, pushed the show further north than any prior season had gone. That location is also why the top three finishers here all cited cold, isolation, and physical depletion rather than wildlife encounters or injuries as the forces working against them; the environment itself was the main opponent.

Key gear

His confirmed 10-item loadout included a Helko Werk felling axe with a 28-inch handle and 2.5-pound head, a Bigfoot Bushcraft ferro rod, a fishing kit with 300 yards of line and 25 hooks, a Killingerblades Big Woody knife with a leather sheath, paracord, a titanium 1900ml pot with a bail handle, a Silky Katanaboy 500 folding saw, snare wire split between 20-gauge and 21-gauge stainless, and a Pajak Radical 16H down sleeping bag rated to minus-100°F. His homemade gill net is the single item most directly tied to the win itself, a DIY tool built from his own fishing background rather than a store-bought item, paired with the sleeping bag that let him withstand Arctic-adjacent temperatures for nearly three months straight.

Season snapshot

Placement	Contestant	Days lasted
1st (winner)	William Larkham Jr.	84
2nd	Timber Cleghorn	83
3rd	Dub Paetz	80

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