Will Longley's Alone Season 13 Gear List: All 10 Items

Note: Alone Season 13, the show's first international World Championship edition, was still airing when this was written, and Will Longley's placement had not yet been recorded in the sourced data.

Will Longley is a stay-at-home dad of Iñupiaq heritage from Kotzebue, Alaska, who grew up partly in Nuuk, Greenland, and is bringing ancestral hunting and fishing skills into Season 13's first international World Championship cast. Longley's own page has more on his background, and our Season 13 guide covers the full field. One sourcing note: season 13 gear lists so far come from a single detailed piece of pre-season coverage rather than multiple confirmed sources, so treat the specifics as reported until the season fills in the record.

The full list

Item	Category	Notes
Sleeping bag	Sleep system	Brand not recorded
Cooking pot	Cooking	Brand not recorded
Ferro rod	Fire starting	Brand not recorded
Gill net	Fishing	Swapped in for a standard fishing line and hooks kit
Ax	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Multitool	Utility	Brand not recorded
Bow and arrows	Hunting	Brand not recorded
Paracord	Utility	Brand not recorded
Snare wire	Trapping	Brand not recorded
Saw	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded

This is a fully sourced list of ten categories, but none of Longley's items carry a specific brand or model in the underlying research. Where a brand isn't recorded, it's stated plainly rather than guessed. For a closer look at the standout pick, see the gill net page, along with axe and bow and arrows.

The one substitution that stands out

Longley's list is a standard, full-coverage spread with one deliberate swap: he passed on a conventional fishing line and hooks kit and brought a gill net instead. That's a meaningful choice. A gill net catches fish passively and in volume, without requiring the contestant to actively fish, which matters over a long run where energy and time are scarce. It's also exactly the substitution Season 11 winner William Larkham Jr. made on his way to an 84-day run in a similarly cold, fish-rich northern location, leaning on a homemade gill net over a rod-and-hook approach.

Given Longley's Iñupiaq heritage and background in ancestral hunting and fishing practices from Kotzebue and Nuuk, a net-based approach to fishing tracks with real cultural and practical expertise rather than a gamble. Everything else on his list, axe, saw, bow, snare wire, ferro rod, sleeping bag, pot, paracord, is the same reliable core that shows up across most seasons. The gill net is the one pick that separates his plan from the field.

How it compares across the field

Season 13 pulled ten contestants from Canada, the United States, Australia, Slovenia, Portugal, Wales, and New Zealand. As of the most recent recorded data, only two placements were logged: Dave Booth (ninth, 4 days) and David Young (tenth, 3 days). Longley and six others had no recorded outcome yet.

Across the 101 of 187 Alone contestants who have a recorded gear list at all, a gill net in place of a standard fishing kit is a minority pick, most contestants take the rod-and-hook option instead. For the official rules on gear selection, see alone-rules, and for how the rest of the recorded cast built their kits, the full Season 13 gear roundup has the complete list.