Carabiner on Alone

A knot weighs nothing, never corrodes, and has no gate to freeze shut at forty below, which is the short version of why no contestant across all 19 tracked season and spinoff files has ever listed a carabiner. The catalog carries one example product with no name attached, and the entire shelter rigging record around it, tarps, food hangs, snare anchors, runs on paracord and hitches instead of hardware.

That is a considered choice, not an oversight. Everything a carabiner would clip into on this show is either rarely carried or absent from the record, while paracord is one of the most carried items on the standard loadouts, with contestant verified products behind it. Over a stay measured in months, a metal clip is one more moving part in freezing spray, and the subarctic locations the show favors are exactly where climbing hardware gets brittle and sticky.

The narrow buyer this makes sense for is someone planning a rig that must open and close daily without retying, a hanging food cache being the realistic case, or genuine fixed line work on steep ground. If that is you, buy a locking gate model, because anything holding food or shelter weight unattended should not depend on a spring. For an Alone style loadout as the field actually runs it, our money goes to more cordage and better knots.