Žiga Ogorelec'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 Žiga Ogorelec's placement had not yet been recorded in the sourced data.

Žiga Ogorelec is a biologist from Slovenia who has competed in survival challenges since his teens and previously completed a 270-kilometer, 15-day solo wilderness journey. He's part of Season 13's first-ever international cast, ten contestants drawn from seven countries. Ogorelec'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
Shovel	Utility	Brand not recorded
Saw	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Knife	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Bow and arrows	Hunting	Brand not recorded
Gill net	Fishing	Brand not recorded
Fishing line and hooks	Fishing	Brand not recorded
Snare wire	Trapping	Brand not recorded
Paracord	Utility	Brand not recorded

This is a fully sourced list of ten categories, but none of Ogorelec'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 his less common picks, see the shovel, hunting knife, and gill net pages.

The most unusual list in this cast

Ogorelec's ten items are the outlier of Season 13's recorded gear. He's the only contestant in this group without an axe and without a ferro rod, the two items that show up on nearly every other recorded list in the franchise for wood processing and fire starting. In their place, he carries a shovel and a knife alongside his saw, and he doubled up on fishing, bringing both a gill net and a standard fishing line and hooks kit rather than picking one.

That's a specialist's list, not a generalist's hedge. Skipping a dedicated axe suggests confidence in the saw and knife for wood and shelter work, and the data doesn't record what he's using for fire in place of a ferro rod, so that gap is stated here rather than guessed at. What is clear is the food plan: two separate fishing methods is a heavier investment in water-based food than almost anyone else recorded in the show's history, which lines up with a biologist's read on a river delta environment likely to reward patience over hunting.

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). Ogorelec and six others had no recorded outcome yet.

Across the 101 of 187 Alone contestants who have a recorded gear list at all, going without both an axe and a ferro rod is rare; most recorded lists carry at least one dedicated fire-starting tool. 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.