Britt Ahart

Two of Britt Ahart's ten Patagonia slots went to emergency food rations. That is not a data entry glitch; the show allows doubling up on ration allotments, and a handful of Season 3 contestants did exactly that. Pair it with the other omission, no bow, no snare wire, no trapping gear of any kind, and his food doctrine comes into focus: fish the lakes, and let stored calories carry the gaps.

The tools he did bring are heavyweight. A Ka Bar Becker BK7 is a thick, hard use blade closer to a chopper than a bushcraft knife, and a 31 inch felling axe with a 24 inch bow saw gives him a full lumberyard's worth of processing power. This is a camp building kit attached to a fishing operation, with a zero degree synthetic bag to make the Andean nights survivable.

Among the 101 contestants with recorded lists in our data, going entirely without hunting or trapping tools is a minority position, and it concentrates risk: if the fish do not cooperate, there is no second protein system to fall back on, only the rations clock running down.