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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

Žiga Ogorelec

Kočevje · Alone Season 13: Alone: World Championship

Age on show
35
Gear sourced
10/10
Žiga Ogorelec
Photo: History Channel — Alone Season 13 official cast photo

What Žiga brought this season

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.

The story so far

Biologist who has competed in survival challenges since his teens; previously completed a 270-kilometer, 15-day solo wilderness journey.

Our read so far

With the season mid-broadcast we are scoring nothing, but this is the kit we most want the episodes to interrogate. The fire question towers over the rest: every recorded list in our database carries a dedicated ignition tool, his does not, and whatever his solution is, friction fire, an undocumented workaround, or sheer confidence, it will be the most instructive fire content this show has produced in years, in either direction. Behind that sits the double-fishing bet, which the delta could vindicate handsomely. Lists this opinionated usually end up teaching the audience something regardless of how their seasons go, and we are content to let the broadcast reveal which lesson this one is.

The picks, examined

No axe and no ferro rod: Ziga Ogorelec's list drops both of the items that appear on nearly every recorded kit in this franchise's history, and that makes the Slovenian biologist's ten the boldest configuration in the World Championship cast by a wide margin. His cutting work rides on a saw and a knife, his tenth slots went to a shovel and a doubled fishing stack, both a gill net and a line and hooks kit, alongside bow, snare wire, pot, paracord, and sleeping bag. The season's gear data comes from a single pre-season source, and it does not record what he intends to use for fire, a gap we flag rather than fill.

Read as a system, the list is a specialist's wager on water. Two parallel fishing methods is a heavier aquatic investment than almost any recorded list in our database, and it fits a biologist's read of delta country: patient, high-volume protein from the rivers rather than calorie-expensive hunts. Ogorelec has competed in survival challenges since his teens and once completed a 270 kilometer, 15 day solo wilderness journey, so the unorthodoxy is coming from experience, not naivety.

Compare with the rest of the Season 13 cast or see what every winner carried.