Gina Chick
NSW · Alone Australia Season 1
- Age on show
- 52
- Gear sourced
- 9/10
How far did Gina get? (tap to reveal)
- Days lasted
- 67
- Placement
- 1st
How Gina's season ended (reveals the result)
Rewilding facilitator; became the first-ever Alone Australia winner and only the second woman and oldest contestant to win any version of the Alone franchise worldwide. Skipped the standard sleeping bag in favor of a possum-fur coat, freeing an extra gear slot; also sang and danced to help lure fish while fishing. Passed her final medical check on day 67 and was told the news by her best friend Lee.
Our take on the run
Chick's 67 days stand on their own, but the run's real drama was the final stretch against Mike Atkinson, who was medically evacuated on day 64 with low blood pressure and advancing malnutrition. She passed her own check three days later and heard the result from her best friend Lee rather than a radio call. At 52 she was the oldest contestant in the cast and became the oldest winner of any Alone version to date, and she is the reason for that Nathan Olsen comparison above: salt is such an unusual pick that when a second winner reaches for it years apart, it stops looking like a coincidence and starts looking like a genuinely underrated slot.
Our read on the kit is that it matches the person. A rewilding facilitator by trade, not a hunter, building a season around steady preservation and daily maintenance rather than one big food source. It is a quieter blueprint than the moose kills and record fish this franchise usually rewards, and it worked anyway.
The loadout, examined
Salt is the item that makes Gina Chick's list stand out. A 3 pound block sits alongside the standard axe, ferro rod, fishing kit, multitool, paracord, pot, saw and snare wire, and salt is a pick almost nobody in the franchise makes, because it only pays off if you plan to preserve meat and fish faster than you can eat them rather than living catch to catch. Across every version of the show, only one other winner has carried it: season 12's Nathan Olsen, years later and on a different continent.
The rest of the nine confirmed items read as a balanced camp kit rather than a specialist's toolbox, axe and saw for wood, multitool and paracord for repairs and rigging, snare wire and the fishing kit working two protein sources at once, pot for cooking whatever came in. The honest gap is the tenth slot. Two independent recap sites corroborate the same nine items but disagree on the last one, one lists bow and arrows, the other lists rations, and we have left it unresolved rather than guess which is correct.
Gina's loadout, item by item
Fully sourced selection. Photos marked “category example” show a typical product for that slot, not the exact unit carried. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
category example
category example
category exampleFishing Kit
Pictured: unspecified assorted hooks + monofilament line
category example
category example
category example
category example
category exampleSnare Wire
Pictured: unspecified 20-gauge snare wire
Salt (3lb block)
Compare with the rest of the Australia S1 cast or see what every winner carried.