Who Won Alone Season 4? Jim Baird and Ted Baird's Win, Explained

Spoiler note: this post covers who won Alone season 4.

Brothers Jim Baird and Ted Baird won Alone season 4, lasting 75 days together in Quatsino Territory on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to split the show's $500,000 prize. Season 4, subtitled "Lost & Found," was the franchise's only team format, pairing contestants as siblings, parents and children, or spouses rather than sending them out solo. The Bairds, freelance outdoorsmen from Toronto, Ontario, outlasted every other pair, including runner-up team Pete and Sam Brockdorff, a father-son duo who jointly tapped out on day 74 after Pete developed severe GERD from prolonged food deprivation, just one day short of matching the Bairds.

How the Bairds won

Jim and Ted were dropped separately and didn't reunite until day 10, when they reached their shared camp and started operating as one unit. They built a canoe-style boat to fish their lake, and leaned hard on their chosen gear, a recurve bow, a gill net, and a crosscut saw, to keep both of them fed through the fall and into winter. As the season wore on and food grew scarce, they survived partly on limpets scavenged from the shoreline. Managing two people's needs off one camp created its own strain, and tensions between the brothers frayed at points without ever breaking the partnership. Because the win was a team format, both men are credited with placement 1, and both are marked as co-winners in our season 4 guide, which covers the rest of the field pair by pair.

Their win made them the first Canadians to win Alone, a distinction that still comes up whenever the show casts internationally. Jim Baird's contestant page and Ted Baird's contestant page cover each brother's background before the show, and our breakdown of every season's prize structure has more on how the split worked and how season 4 compares to the franchise's other unusual payout seasons.

Season 4 remains the only team format the US show has run to date, and it changes how you should read the whole season compared to solo seasons. Every camp had two people's morale, food needs, and physical limits to manage at once, which is why the Brockdorffs' exit came down to one man's declining health rather than a shared failure of strategy, and why the Bairds' one-day margin over them looks closer in hindsight than a typical solo finish would.

Key gear behind the win

Detail	Season 4
Winners	Jim Baird and Ted Baird, 75 days (team)
Runner-up	Pete and Sam Brockdorff, 74 days (team)
Location	Quatsino Territory, Vancouver Island, Canada
Prize	$500,000, split between the winning pair

Because they shared one camp, the brothers' ten-item kit had to cover two people rather than one. A Samick Sage takedown recurve bow with a 50+ lb draw and a 12-foot gill net handled food, a Fiskars X15 axe and a one-man crosscut saw handled shelter and firewood, and a Toaks titanium pot with a bail handle did double duty for two. The full breakdown of what each brother carried and how it got used is in our Jim Baird gear post and our Ted Baird gear post.

For what the Bairds have done since the show, our where-is-Jim-Baird-now post and our where-is-Ted-Baird-now post cover their lives after Vancouver Island, and the winners page has every champion across every season and spinoff for comparison.