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Richardson Mountains, Beaufort Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada, near Aklavik, inside the Arctic Circle, roughly 125 miles (150 km) north of it and about 150 km from the Alone season 11 filming site near Inuvik

Will Longley

Kotzebue, Alaska (grew up partly in Nuuk) · Alone Season 13: Alone: World Championship

Age on show
37
Gear sourced
10/10
Will Longley
Photo: History Channel — Alone Season 13 official cast photo

What Will brought this season

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The story so far

Stay-at-home dad of Iñupiaq heritage bringing ancestral hunting and fishing skills to the competition.

Our read so far

Still airing, so no outcome talk; what we are watching is whether heritage-depth netting behaves like professional-depth netting has before. The net-first build has a specific rhythm: it is slow to start, the net must be set, the water must be learned, and then it compounds, feeding its owner while castmates with rod-and-hook kits spend daily energy for daily catch. Longley's Kotzebue and Nuuk background suggests he knows that rhythm at a level no pre-season profile can measure. If the delta's fish cooperate, his one substitution is the kind that quietly restructures an entire season. The broadcast will tell us; we will not get ahead of it.

The picks, examined

Will Longley made one substitution to the standard ten, and it may be the most culturally grounded gear choice in this World Championship cast: a gill net where the default fishing line and hooks kit would sit. Longley is a stay-at-home dad of Inupiaq heritage from Kotzebue, Alaska, partly raised in Nuuk, Greenland, carrying ancestral netting and hunting practice into Arctic delta country, and the rest of his list runs the full standard spread, axe and saw, bow, snare wire, ferro rod, sleeping bag, pot, multitool, paracord, all brandless in the single pre-season source this season's gear record currently rests on.

A gill net is a volume-and-patience instrument: it fishes around the clock without spending its owner's calories, which is precisely the economics a long cold-country run wants. The franchise's own record makes the precedent argument for him, this exact substitution, net over line, in fish-rich northern water, sits behind one of the strongest runs in the show's history, and a minority of recorded lists across the franchise ever attempt it.

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