Survival Show Guide
Reindeer Lake, northern Saskatchewan, Canada

Alan Tenta

Columbia Valley, British Columbia, Canada · Alone Season 10: Saskatchewan

Age on show
52
Gear sourced
10/10
How far did Alan get? (tap to reveal)
Season 10 winner
Days lasted
66
Placement
1st
Alan Tenta
Photo: History Channel / A&E Networks (Alone Season 10 cast bio photo)
How Alan's season ended (reveals the result)

High school teacher with an outdoor-education background; lost 78 pounds over 66 days and survived primarily on fish, using a smoker to cache food for the winter.

Our take on the run

Tenta never tapped out. He was still on Reindeer Lake at day 66 when producers flew his wife Lisa in alongside the medical team under the cover of a routine checkup, and her arrival was how he learned he had won. Behind that television moment sits the strategic one: he built a smoker and cached fish against the coming winter, converting surplus catch into stored calories, and told the cameras he had committed to staying as long as he had food. He lost roughly 78 pounds doing it. The margin was two days over Wyatt Black, who left at 64 feeling his journey was complete, and eleven over Mikey Helton's medical pull. Redundancy plus preservation plus a settled mind: no single brilliant item, which is exactly why his kit teaches so well.

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The loadout, examined

Alan Tenta's arrows are the detail we always point at first: six broadheads for big game, three small game tips, one item slot covering two entirely different hunts. The whole list works like that. A fishing kit, a longbow, and snare wire run three food systems in parallel; a Hults Bruk hatchet and a Silky Katanaboy 500 split the wood work; a waterproof bag rated to minus 40 Fahrenheit matches the coldest location the show had used to that point; a Leatherman, 550 cord, ferro rod, and stainless pot fill out a fully verified ten.

Nothing here is exotic, and that is the point. A 52 year old high school teacher from British Columbia built a kit whose only philosophy is redundancy: if the bow goes quiet for a week, the lines and snares are already fishing, and the sub-categories inside single items, the mixed arrow tips, extend the same hedge one level deeper. It is the most disciplined interpretation of the standard loadout in this cast's records.

Alan's loadout, item by item

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