The Alone winners list

Great Karoo, a semi-arid desert region in the Eastern/Western Cape, South Africa · 34 days · Season 12

Nathan Olsen, a 52-year-old tech CEO from Buhl, Idaho, won Season 12 (Alone: Africa) by outlasting nine other contestants for 34 days in South Africa's Great Karoo desert, the show's first-ever desert location and its shortest winning duration on record. Olsen built up substantial food stores, catching enough fish that he described the acacia trees near his camp as 'loaded with long strips of drying fish.' The season saw unusually high attrition, with four contestants tapping out within the first five days and only Olsen and runner-up Kelsey Loper surviving past the one-month mark, a pattern producers compared to the show's original Season 1.

Mackenzie River Delta, ~125 miles north of the Arctic Circle near Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada · 84 days · Season 11

William Larkham Jr., a 49-year-old commercial fisherman, hunter, and trapper from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, won Season 11 by outlasting nine other participants for 84 days in the Mackenzie River Delta, roughly 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle near Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Rather than relying primarily on a bow, William leaned on his commercial fishing background, using a homemade gill net and a fishing kit to secure a steady food source in the fish-rich delta environment.

Reindeer Lake, northern Saskatchewan, Canada · 66 days · Season 10

Alan Tenta, a 52-year-old high school teacher from Columbia Valley, British Columbia, won Season 10 by surviving 66 days on Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan, outlasting nine other contestants in the show's coldest, most northern setting to that point. He built his 10-item loadout around redundancy in food-gathering methods, carrying tools for fishing, hunting, and trapping simultaneously (a fishing kit, a longbow and arrows, and snare wire) so that when one method was unproductive he had backups, along with a stainless pot, an axe and folding saw for shelter and firewood work, a multitool, paracord, a ferro rod, and a minus-40-rated sleeping bag.

Big River, Nunatsiavut region, northern Labrador, Canada (approx. 35 km / 21 mi south of Makkovik) · 78 days · Season 9

Juan Pablo Quiñonez, a wilderness first responder and survival specialist who grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico and later settled in Pinawa, Manitoba, won Season 9 by lasting 78 days on the banks of Labrador's Big River. He built his loadout around fishing (fly line and hooks plus 20-lb monofilament) and a takedown recurve bow, used a prototype hatchet and a blade-sharpener-as-ferro-striker trick, and relied on a -30°F rated sleeping bag to withstand the cold, wet boreal terrain.

Chilko Lake, British Columbia, Canada · 74 days · Season 8

Clay Hayes, a professional bowyer and traditional archery instructor who splits time between Idaho and his native Florida, won Season 8 by outlasting nine other contestants for 74 days at Chilko Lake, British Columbia, the show's first true alpine, high-elevation location. He hunted with a self-made Osage orange selfbow, harvested a deer during the season, and ate its heart immediately after the kill; he also had a close encounter with a grizzly bear and tracked a mountain lion.

East Arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories (near Łutselk'e) · 100 days · Season 7

Roland Welker, a 47-year-old Alaska hunting guide, won season 7 by becoming the only contestant to reach the season's fixed 100-day survival goal, the format's defining change from prior seasons' last-man-standing structure. Dropped off on the east arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories on September 18, 2019, he built a semi-permanent log shelter with a shortened two-man crosscut saw and relied on a longbow, gill net, and snare wire to keep himself fed through the Arctic winter.

East Arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories (approx. 400 km south of the Arctic Circle, 120 km south of the arctic tree line) · 77 days · Season 6

Jordan Jonas, a construction worker and hunting guide, won season 6 after 77 days alone on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. Roughly 20 days in, he became the first contestant in the show's history to kill a big-game animal, taking down a bull moose with his takedown recurve bow, which supplied him with several hundred pounds of meat and gave him a decisive caloric advantage over the remaining contestants.

Khonin Nuga valley, Selenge Province (near Züünkharaa) · 60 days · Season 5

Sam Larson, a wilderness skills instructor from Lincoln, Nebraska, won Alone Season 5 ("Redemption") by surviving 60 days alone in the Khonin Nuga valley of Mongolia's Selenge Province, the longest of the season's ten returning contestants. He had previously competed on Season 1, where he finished as runner-up after tapping out at 55 days; for his second attempt he overhauled his kit, trading his old DIY axe and canvas sleeping bag for a Hults Bruk axe and a much warmer -60°F rated sleeping bag, and carrying flour and trail mix rations instead of a fishing kit or bow.

Quatsino Territory, Vancouver Island, near Port Hardy, British Columbia · 75 days · Season 4

Brothers Jim and Ted Baird, freelance outdoorsmen from Toronto, Ontario, were dropped separately on Vancouver Island and reunited at their shared camp on Day 10. They built a canoe-style boat to fish their lake and relied heavily on their chosen gear, including a recurve bow, gill net, and crosscut saw, to sustain themselves through the fall into winter.

Quatsino Territory, Vancouver Island, near Port Hardy, British Columbia · 75 days · Season 4

Brothers Jim and Ted Baird, freelance outdoorsmen from Toronto, Ontario, were dropped separately on Vancouver Island and reunited at their shared camp on Day 10. They built a canoe-style boat to fish their lake and relied heavily on their chosen gear, including a recurve bow, gill net, and crosscut saw, to sustain themselves through the fall into winter.

Patagonia, Andes foothills near Lago Escondido, Lago Soberanía, and Lago Montes (Río Negro Province) · 87 days · Season 3

Zachary Fowler, a 36-year-old from Appleton, Maine, won Alone season 3 by outlasting nine other contestants dropped into the Andean foothills of Argentine Patagonia, near Lago Escondido. With no coastal food sources available (unlike prior Vancouver Island seasons), he survived mainly by catching dozens of trout, supplemented by two birds, grubs, and foraged plants.

Quatsino, near Port Hardy, northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia · 66 days · Season 2

David McIntyre, a 50-year-old survival instructor from Kentwood, Michigan, won Alone season 2 by outlasting nine other contestants for 66 days on northern Vancouver Island, earning the $500,000 prize. He built a raised sleeping platform off the ground topped with a thick hemlock-bough mattress and structured his days around staying warm, dry, fed, and watered so he'd have no reason to quit.

Quatsino Territory, Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia · 56 days · Season 1

Alan Kay, a survival instructor from Blairsville, Georgia, won Alone season 1 by lasting 56 days at Quatsino Sound on northern Vancouver Island. Rather than chasing big game like several rivals, he leaned on steady, low-risk coastal foraging, subsisting mainly on limpets and seaweed and supplementing with mussels, crab, fish, and slugs gathered from the tideline.

West Coast Range, lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia · 76 days · Australia S3

Shay Williamson, a 30-year-old professional possum trapper from Whakatāne, New Zealand, won Alone Australia Season 3 after surviving 76 days in the West Coast Range of lutruwita/Tasmania, the longest duration of any completed season at that point. He sustained himself mainly on eels, fish, plants and worms, with a pademelon catch around day 67 proving decisive late in the game.

Fiordland, New Zealand's South Island (Te Waipounamu) · 64 days · Australia S2

Aquaculturalist Krzysztof Wojtkowski, 39, from Ferny Creek, Victoria, won season 2 of Alone Australia after surviving 64 days in Fiordland on New Zealand's South Island. He did not voluntarily tap out - a scheduled medical check on day 64 determined he could no longer safely continue, at which point producers revealed he had outlasted all nine other contestants, including runner-up Suzan Muir (63 days) and third-place Andreas Lundin (57 days).

South West Tasmania, Australia (Tasmanian wilderness) · 67 days · Australia S1

Gina Chick, a 52-year-old rewilding facilitator from NSW, won the first season of Alone Australia by surviving 67 days in the South West Tasmania wilderness, longer than any of the nine other contestants. She reached the final two alongside solo adventurist Mike Atkinson, who was medically evacuated on day 64 due to low blood pressure and malnutrition.

North Atlantic coast of Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada · 50 days · Frozen

Woniya Thibeault, an ancestral-skills teacher from Grass Valley, California who runs the school Buckskin Revolution, had been the Season 6 runner-up in 2019, lasting 73 days on the shores of Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories before tapping out from starvation. Invited back for Alone: Frozen on Labrador's North Atlantic coast, she focused on reinforcing her shelter (including building a wooden door), maintaining her trapline for rabbits, and attempting ice fishing, while staying deliberately cautious near the end of the run to avoid an injury-related tap-out.