♪ ♪
[thunder rumbling]
[wind howling]
♪ ♪
narrator: Over nine seasons...
♪ ♪
84 survivalists have braved
punishing conditions around the globe
with a single goal:
to be the last one standing.
♪ ♪
Now ten new participants set their sights
on "Alone's" most remote location yet,
northern Saskatchewan Canada.
♪ ♪
The area sits atop the Canadian Shield,
the oldest rock formations on Earth,
created by erosion and violent glacial activity
over the past 3 billion years.
Those same forces also left behind
more than 100,000 freshwater lakes.
♪ ♪
Rugged and exposed, this area is battered
by the full force of Arctic winds,
pounding the area with snow, ice,
and negative 40 degree temperatures.
♪ ♪
The unforgiving environment means
the area is nearly untouched by humans,
allowing the black bear population to swell
to over 40,000.
♪ ♪
Massive freshwater fish and moose
also call this pristine wilderness home.
♪ ♪
Tonight, an exclusive look behind the scenes of "Alone"
and the very first introduction
to the newest participants.
♪ ♪
Every year, more than 10,000 people submit
emails, videos, and photographs,
hoping for a shot at being on "Alone."
- And with this, I can eat,
and I can survive in the wild.
- And then, done.
narrator: These submissions are reviewed, scrutinized,
and narrowed down to the final ten.
- So I'm setting a beaver trap.
narrator: Only the best candidates make the cut.
- So this is my "fuh-poon" right there.
narrator: Meet the first participant
of "Alone" season ten.
♪ ♪
- Look at all this elderberry.
Check that out.
My name is Michael Helton.
Everybody calls me Mikey.
I would consider myself a jack of all trades.
I'm a carpenter.
I can build anything.
I made these, my little wooden tweezers.
I grew up in this, hunting, fishing, trapping,
all through my teen life
with no running water, no power,
in a house that we built out of scrap wood ourselves.
Check it out, my little Sasquatch cave.
Most of our meat comes from me going out with a bow
getting deer, pigs, or rabbits.
I have built a fish trap that was the spring pole.
And whenever a fish touches your line,
gives it a little bop and a yank on it.
All of these skills that I've built over my lifetime,
I want to show those off.
I want to show that I can do this.
We've got our pot and we got some sticks.
We're going to make a pot hanger.
We can pick our pot up and hang it right there.
Oh, like a charm.
Look at that.
I'm about to do probably the biggest thing
I've ever done in my life,
you know, go out to win the prize money,
you know, to change my family's life.
And I feel like I could be a contender here.
If I didn't, I wouldn't be here.
It blows my mind just coming into this place,
seeing all the opportunity,
with all these little dotted islands
that are almost connected, where you take 20 steps,
and it's a completely different terrain.
The terrain itself makes this location harder.
With every step you take, you sink,
and it's like there is no solid ground.
And it's so dense.
There could be a bear 10 feet from us right now,
and I wouldn't know it.
Everything's so soft on the ground
that it's so quiet.
You can't hear when they're walking towards you.
So wolves, wolves are quiet in general.
You don't hear a wolf walking.
Now make them walk on sponges.
So you walk up on any of these animals at the wrong time,
and they're liable to hurt you.
♪ ♪
Been working at this my whole life,
and there will never be a way
to be able to do something of this magnitude ever again.
♪ ♪
[indistinct speech]
narrator: Participants have about one month
to prepare for their time on "Alone,"
and then leave for the long trip north.
♪ ♪
Meanwhile, the "Alone" crew is hard at work setting up
everything needed at this year's remote location.
- Cast arrives tomorrow,
and they really like to eat really high fat.
They're trying to load up on fat and nutrients,
and so they just love meat.
So they get dedicated kind of fatty meat meals.
There's ten of them, but they eat for about 25.
[triangle clanging]
- We usually land on location
about two weeks prior to cast arrival.
♪ ♪
Gives us time to build this orientation camp,
check out the sites, set up our repeater system,
understand really the topography of the terrain
and the logistics around running an operation
to this magnitude around here.
With these 50-foot masts and this type of topography,
it really allows our repeater coverage to stretch
over the 50 square miles that we need to
to keep the cast and crew in communications
with our main base at all times.
♪ ♪
narrator: As the camp build continues,
the cast makes their final leg
of the arduous journey to location,
where they will spend seven days
preparing for launch.
- It is 4:17 in the morning,
and we are all packed and ready to get on the bus
for a five-hour trip to the airplane.
♪ ♪
Taz's hair looks magnificent.
This is the girl power section.
- Whoo-hoo!
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
♪ ♪
- Let's go.
♪ ♪
- Watch your step.
♪ ♪
- Cross, watch your head on the top.
- Go, go, go! [laughter]
- Good luck, guys.
♪ ♪
- Whoo!
- Wait, we're going right now.
I'm going to show you.
♪ ♪
- Here we go!
♪ ♪
[laughter and chatter]
♪ ♪
- Yes! - Whoa, [indistinct].
♪ ♪
I'm like, ah.
♪ ♪
- Like, on a diet. - It was bumpy.
I was feeling sick for a while. - Oh man.
- Hell yeah. I'm, like, carsick.
♪ ♪
- It suddenly sort of got more real.
- Oh, yeah.
♪ ♪
- Couldn't believe how smooth the landing was.
- How you doing? - Living the dream.
- [laughing]
[laughter]
- What are you thinking?
What's in your brain? -Cosplay.
- I was just taking it in, you know.
I'm just arriving here
in the middle of nowhere,
so we're very far away.
I was just thinking of all the islands that we came to.
It's--you know, it's amazing.
narrator: Orientation officially begins
and the participants are shown where they'll be living
for the next week.
- Washrooms are here.
There's a shower building here as well.
- Is it a one at a time thing?
- No, there's two shower stalls in there.
- Okay. Got you, got you.
- And then just down here is the camp.
[indistinct chatter]
- I just got off Alaska Airlines.
- Home sweet home for one week,
then the real camping starts.
- It's great.
It's going to be anything--
much better than anything else...
[laughs] That we're going to have
for the next three months or so.
- Raspberries, cranberries everywhere.
We'll be the first guys in history
to go home the same weight we tucked in at, eh?
[laughter]
- That'd be great.
♪ ♪
- OK.
Think I'm good.
See you in a little while.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
narrator: While the participants begin
the orientation week with preliminary medical checks...
- 148 on 88.
narrator: The camera crew is unpacking and organizing
the massive amount of equipment required
to facilitate a project of this magnitude.
- In order to create the magic on the "Alone" show,
we have to give our cast all these cameras.
This is the mainstay of the whole show right here.
We call it their Wilson.
This is, like, their best friend out there,
so it's an amazing tool,
how this thing actually becomes your friend.
So they get these good old GoPros,
these nice compact, little cameras
for getting all those obscure shots,
you know, the underwater shots.
♪ ♪
They also get two trail cameras that we tell them to put up
around their shelter, just to see if there's any wildlife
that comes in through their camp
or their shelter catches on fire.
And this is just one of three cases of batteries.
So when we send them out in the field,
we give them on average 30 batteries.
A lot of people ask me, you're a camera guy on "Alone" show.
What are you doing when they're all out in the field?
We spend time getting time-lapses,
getting drone shots, doing our night time-lapses
so you see the Northern Lights,
the star stuff, which I'm sure you've all seen.
And it just kind of really helps give you guys,
the audience, a real sense of what it's like
for the environment that these guys are living in.
It's just a great tool for us to use
and really show off this landscape.
♪ ♪
narrator: This orientation week is also a chance
for the participants to finally get comfortable
with the camera gear they'll be using in the field.
- Number one rule: wherever you guys go,
always have a camera, even if it's just a GoPro.
Because guess what happens when you don't have a camera?
You see those special moments happen
when you least expect them, right?
I'm going to start with the most important
piece of kit here.
This here is your main camera.
- Blinking on the front?
- Yes, now it is. - It's red.
- It's recording. - OK.
- How do I look?
Just great, huh?
[laughter]
- Know how to turn in off.
- There should be, like, a button that says power.
Where the hell?
- How do you really feel
about the situation?
- I'm excited. [laughter]
I'm frustrated on how to learn how to run the cameras.
♪ ♪
- So we're going to show you how to cover a scene
with multiple camera angles.
- To all of you guys that thought
that this whole thing is just a bunch of people with GoPros
running around in the woods, that's not true.
There's some training involved.
Four cameras.
♪ ♪
It's time now to get some of the crabs
that you sing for it to be together.
Here's my house. It's a tree house.
♪ ♪
[imitates turkey call]
♪ ♪
If I have deep spot to fish, great.
If I have shallow place to fish,
I want to build, like, a watercraft,
and get food and smoke and be able to store,
And hunting for moose and bear, for sure, big game.
The most intimidating thing for me,
it seems like the bear population here
is pretty high, and there's black bear.
They're stronger, they're faster,
they can swim, they can climb tree.
Your only option is to fight back.
♪ ♪
It's going to be a big challenge to be able
to protect your food because the bear is going
to come to your food, you know,
and to you, you know, after you as well.
And I'm excited to be put in a spot
in which this experience has levels of intimidation.
And it just makes me feel more alive.
♪ ♪
narrator: While the participants are preparing
mentally for what this location will bring
over the next days and months,
the boat teams are marking routes
through the massive lake system
to what will eventually be the sites
the survivalists will be dropped on.
- So some of the prep work involved
in getting ready to launch contestants,
we need to go out and scout sites as far as landings go,
and do we have options and alternate landings
when the weather and the wind changes.
Essentially preparing for the worst,
and give us the ability to remove them.
So at the moment, we're laying down tracks,
so giving ourselves proven travel corridors
that we'll stay within.
♪ ♪
narrator: Only five days remain
before the participants will be dropped at their site
for as long as they can survive.
In the time that is left, there is still much to do
in preparation for their departure,
including practicing their camerawork.
- Oh.
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- Now I'm going to turn you off.
♪ ♪
First farmer on "Alone"!
My name is Ann Rosenquist.
Grew up on the North Shore of Lake Superior,
and I am a organic farmer.
We're growing everything possible.
So basically it's kind of like a homestead gone wild.
I'm no spring chicken. I am 56.
They probably wonder why I'm here
because they see, like, this older lady
that's kind of dippy.
That's me. [laughs]
They don't see what's underneath there.
I'm a good shot with a bow.
I fished all my life since I was a little kid.
I've always been driven.
I've been training for this basically my whole life.
I think this place could give you a false sense of security.
Because right now, winter hasn't set in,
and it's a blue sky and it looks great.
But it could turn ugly.
♪ ♪
This area is going to feel the full brunt
of that Arctic wind coming down.
There's nothing stopping it.
And this lake, it is huge.
There's whitecaps out there.
The terrain is a arrow eater. [laughs]
Once you shoot an arrow, you're never going to find it,
so you better make sure you know what you're shooting
because it's soft.
♪ ♪
This whole experience is so cool.
I'm just giddy.
[laughing]
♪ ♪
- We're leaving our lodge.
And we're going to head out to the sites.
We want to prove some of the sites,
making sure they have equal access
to hunting, harvesting berries,
and also fishing and herbs in the area.
So we've got a little willow branch here
that's been nibbled at the top.
It's an indication that a moose has come through here.
Quite a bit of lichen around here.
You can put it in soups and stews.
Okay, so we got fish, we got berries, we got herbs.
- Yeah. - Game trails.
So yeah, this is a big game trail.
I'm thinking bear.
- Mm-hmm.
- This is large.
Yeah, and I would think the bears come
through here looking for berries.
I feel confident. Push on in there.
We're going to find grouse.
We'll find snowshoe hare as well.
♪ ♪
narrator: While the production staff continues
to scout possible locations, the participants work
with on-site medic to review the safety gear
that will be supplied to them in the field.
- If you have a big bleed,
you want to keep the blood inside.
If you keep pouring blood out,
you might not have much time.
So QuikClot gauze, even though it seems like it's not much,
it can be very viable to just jam into the wound.
Tourniquets.
♪ ♪
Slide the limb inside.
Leverage it and pull as tight as you can.
These things are what will save your life
if you have an arterial bleed.
I've seen individuals that have had blood shoot
20 to 30 feet in the air onto ceilings.
♪ ♪
- It's 5:15 in the morning.
Time is short, and we need to study
and prepare as much as possible.
And there's just a general feeling of a restlessness,
of a caged animal waiting to be set free.
♪ ♪
[indistinct]
My name is Melanie Sawyer.
I'm 55 years young.
For work, I teach children and adults
about history from the 1700s upwards.
We do it by being personas in that time.
Underneath the birch bark, you can make flour right here.
Every single thing that we wear, we've made.
It's historically correct.
It's really vital to give the 100%
of what it actually was like
so people have a real respect for their relatives,
for how they survived.
It's an incredible thing.
Yes, I have success.
Nice, big gray squirrel.
Food is my thing.
I am 6'1", and I need to eat.
Whether it be wild bee nests or birds' eggs,
foraging plants.
Wild watercress.
But also hunting.
I have experience with the traditional longbow.
So if you put me in the wild,
you can pretty much guarantee I'll be looking for food.
Yeah! Processing...
I like skinning.
Using every part of the animal
is very essential.
Two beautiful pieces of meat there.
What this opportunity presents to me is freedom.
I thrive in that.
You are never alone in nature, ever.
♪ ♪
This is an incredible area of Saskatchewan.
It's the second largest lake here.
It just makes it absolutely huge,
massive for fish, trophy fish up the zuza.
Get my hooks in and start pulling those big boys out.
♪ ♪
I know there's a massive amount of bear,
40 or 50,000.
And then, of course, there are wolves,
3,000 wolves.
But I'm most worried about the oncoming winter winds.
♪ ♪
Especially being so much closer to the Arctic.
That wind is going to be a doozy.
And if my shelter is not built in the correct place,
if I am not situated in a way that I'm protected from it,
I'm kind of screwed
because the wind from the north
in November and December up here can get
to 120 kilometer winds.
And that is not when you need to go down
and source your water and go and find firewood.
You need to be prepared.
The oncoming winter is definitely going
to be a challenge,
but I'm willing to push it all the way, baby.
If you guys think that I'm going to tap out,
you've got another thing coming.
You give me a problem, and I will find a solution.
There's no point in not being fully committed.
♪ ♪
This is a chance in a lifetime. [laughs]
♪ ♪
narrator: Once all the survival zones
have been selected for the participants,
their orientation focuses on the resources
they will find while in the field.
- Every season of "Alone," we take the cast members
through this exact sequence where we take them
into the forest to give them knowledge
about the nutrition from the plants
and any medicinals that we can actually get
from the plants in this area.
So we're going to start off with the fireweeders.
The leaves, you can make a tea.
The actual bark you can turn into an inferior string.
The young leaves of the bearberry are really good
if you have a urinary tract infection.
Pine tree, these needles,
when compared ounce per ounce with lemons,
have four times more vitamin C.
You can chew on these, and you can make your tea,
but don't boil it.
Chop these up real fine,
bring it to the boil, let it come off the boil,
drop it in, and you'll taste that.
Don't overdo it because too much vitamin C
can give you an upset stomach.
This is bog laurel rosemary.
Pass that around. This is toxic.
- You can't mistake that smell.
♪ ♪
My name's Al Tenta.
I live in Invermere, British Columbia, Canada.
Currently I'm employed at the local high school.
I teach grades 8 through 12.
I think about hunting and fishing all the time.
My areas of strength, first, would be hunting.
I've only harvested one animal with a firearm in my life.
All the other ones were with a bow.
I have competed in traditional archery as well.
I placed second in the BC Championships twice.
My second strength would be fishing.
I found some more materials for my bushcraft fly.
There's something special about catching fish
on a fly that you tied.
Fishing fly made from elk hair, green lichen,
old man's beard, and tree resin.
I feel very confident in my ability
to track and locate game.
The squirrel runs right along here.
It's a perfect place to set up a snare.
I feel very confident making shelters
with the materials around me.
It's really important to ensure you're off the ground.
Ground's frozen.
So I make sure I have a bed.
I can always find a solution to most problems.
A lichen wick in sap, camp candle.
I'd also like to be an inspiration
to all my students.
Think I could do it.
♪ ♪
Being on "Alone" is the ultimate adventure challenge,
and it gives you the opportunity
to push yourself in these extreme environments.
The fishing starts getting poor
after maybe a month in.
And to get enough calories from the small, lean game--
keeps you going, but not long-term.
So big game is my biggest goal.
♪ ♪
And there is more potential,
perhaps, for big game in this location.
♪ ♪
This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
I don't want to waste it.
And there's a lot of people that would like
to have this opportunity as well.
So to not push yourself as long as you can would be--
I'd be really disappointed in myself.
♪ ♪
I have a responsibility not to let my kids down
because they'll be watching.
♪ ♪
- We are honored to have you guys here
in our traditional territory
of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation.
But I am super excited to have you guys as our guests.
And it's a beautiful territory.
And we brought our elders
to honor and celebrate this time.
- Now I'm going to say our prayer
in Cree, in my language.
[speaking Cree]
God bless you all. Thank you.
[applause]
♪ ♪
- Pleasure. I'm from Bracebridge, Ontario.
- Ontario. - Thank you very much
for allowing me to be here.
- Yeah, for sure. - I will treat it as my own.
- Yeah. - And I'll leave it the way
I found it. - Thank you.
- May God bless.
- My friend, Wyatt.
♪ ♪
- My name's Wyatt Black. I'm from Bracebridge, Ontario.
Come on, baby!
We got fire.
There we go. We're getting cracking going.
Release the kraken!
I love to talk.
I never shut up, kind of one of those guys.
I'm just kind of walking and talking.
Oh, look right here, snowshoe rabbit.
Yeah, I can snare anything,
whether it be a bear, a deer, a wolf.
I've snared over 20 wolves.
Their intelligence is ridiculous.
I take my snare wires, and I boil them
in hemlock and water to kill the scent.
I take my hands, and I rub them in charcoal
and get them all covered and scent-free
as much as possible.
We can use that ash for seasoning our meat.
Little tricks that I had the luxury
of learning from old trappers,
and I know how to utilize my surroundings.
Do you want to talk challenging?
Come on out.
♪ ♪
You want to talk about feeling small,
well, you just got to step out into this place,
and you're just another speck of dirt.
[laughs] Like, it's a crazy, crazy place.
The bush is thick.
♪ ♪
Minus 70 is not impossible.
♪ ♪
It is raw.
You get wet, you're done.
You just don't recover from things like that.
This is my world.
Moose, deer, fish, berries, everything.
I got everything I need here.
No excuses.
Let's get this game on.
♪ ♪
narrator: The orientation week winds down
as the day of launch gets closer.
The ten participant sites have been
selected and named by the crew.
Now the survivalists randomly choose
the sight they will be living on
for the duration of the competition.
- This is the moment where we pick your sites.
I need you guys to line up tallest to shortest.
[indistinct chatter]
- Yeah, there you go.
- All right, you guys are good right there.
- I think we're OK.
[indistinct chatter]
- Roger, you'll write these down?
- Just for you guys. - Cow pies.
- The smallest first.
- Ann, you get to pick the first location.
- Uh-oh.
- The most perfect one, I think.
I'm going to go right for the middle.
- All right. Pull out the stick.
What do you got?
- The Channel.
all: The Channel. [cheers]
- I think this one looks pretty good.
Oh, the Hidden Cove.
[whoops]
♪ ♪
- Rocky Point.
[whoops]
I like it.
- Bear Paw Beach.
[whoops]
♪ ♪
- My name is Luke Olsen.
I currently live in Maui, Hawaii.
Primitive living, that was the family business
and living that way.
I've literally been doing this my entire life.
I have memories as far back as seven or eight years old
of teaching people how to [indistinct].
I grew up running trips in Montana and Idaho
and Arizona and Utah.
We actually had a lot less equipment
than what is provided for "Alone."
All the primitive stuff is really underestimated.
Dave Holliday me this trick.
And so you hold it with one hand, like, set it up.
I'm known for my deadfall lines.
Boom.
I always show up to a group
with a bounty of food.
Target practicing this morning.
Little squirrel, just peels right off.
All cleaned up, ready to cook in my pot.
[slurps]
♪ ♪
"Alone" is really the only show of this type
that I would even consider doing.
Like, it's the most real of real shows on television,
and that's a big part of why I'm here.
You know, the impact that it has on people's lives,
watching us go through these struggles
and overcoming things, it means so much to the world.
And that it's on television is just incredible
because there's nothing even remotely like it on television.
This seems like a really trying location
as far as the weather goes and the terrain.
It's very flat. There's no landmarks for us.
This is the most remote we've been on this show.
[chuckles]
It is truly extreme.
The winds are incredibly strong.
The cold is incredibly piercing.
The resources are incredibly thin.
♪ ♪
There's also alpha predators here.
The wolves, this is their territory.
And really, we need to do what they do.
Come in, be the alpha predator,
and get long-term food supplies stored up.
♪ ♪
To be the last standing here is going to take
not only knowledge and skills, but a lot of grit.
This place is going to throw it at us as hard as it can.
The shorelines are where most of my resources are going
to come from, and so I want to find
the borders of my shorelines first day,
get my nets and trotline in the water.
My dad's principle was, eat now, starve later.
You always fill your belly basket first,
is what my dad said.
I'm doing this for the challenge.
And I want my son, Osiris,
to see his dad thrive and demonstrate my skill.
I'm here to thrive.
narrator: With just 24 hours to go until launch,
the crew must now stash each person's 65 pounds
of camera gear at their sites to be collected
by the survivalists when they're dropped off.
- We're just coming in to do a case drop
for one of the sites so that their camera gear
and things they need are going to be there.
♪ ♪
narrator: Meanwhile, participants go
through final safety briefings,
have their gear reviewed,
searched for contraband,
and taken from them.
♪ ♪
- [laughs] You know, they're just looking at my stuff
and trying to find stuff in my stuff.
So I don't know.
And counting my hooks.
- Wow. - These are your work gloves
and your insulated.
- 5:00 a.m. is launch, and tomorrow we leave.
♪ ♪
I'm Lee DeWilde.
I live in Huslia, Alaska.
Raised with 14 kids out in the woods.
Never saw another community till I was 15.
You know, I grew up in the woods.
Oh, yeah, there's one.
When my dad would cut a beaver,
he'd tell us all the organs and everything,
kind of like an anatomy class.
Beaver's real good eating.
It's powerful food.
I prefer wild game.
Fat's better.
Snare rabbits.
I see some tracks here.
And all the small game.
My favorite fishing is under the ice,
basically threading a hole under the ice
and pulling the net under, no floaters.
I've also made little quicker shelters.
There you go.
I'm the only pilot in Huslia,
so I move people between villages.
There's no roads, so I'm it.
I need a bigger airplane to serve this country,
and this is the way I'm going to do it.
♪ ♪
We're going to be dropped off,
you know, no food, no shelter.
That lack of food, I'm a high calorie-burning guy.
I'm thin right now.
I mean, I'm as heavy as I can get.
That's the challenge right there for me,
getting food.
And it's a catch-22.
If you don't have food,
you can't build a permanent shelter.
You don't have a warm shelter,
you ain't going to be sleeping good.
You're going to be burning calories, cold.
I'm going to build a shelter, something made for winter.
I'm just going to make one. I'm not going to get fancy.
Fishing, the fish that are in this country,
a lot of them are the same
as what I grew up catching in nets.
I'm going to make a set net.
Moose is something--
that's our buffalo for my people.
♪ ♪
It's a competition for food out there.
There are black bear in this country.
They're on their own "Alone" show all the time, you know.
They're hungry. It's life and death for them,
and they got to fatten up to make it through the winter.
I got to be careful because those bears,
when they come into a kill,
I might have got it, but it's theirs now.
They own it.
I don't want to spoil my luck,
but those two animals there is what I grew up eating,
and I'm going to get hungry out there,
and I hope I get to eat them again.
♪ ♪
narrator: The evening before launch,
the crew makes final preparations.
- West of the plane on that shoreline,
that's where you would like to have them leave from.
- The sun's going to come up right behind us.
I think we should be in the boats around 5:30.
narrator: And the participants have a group bonfire
before dividing up for their adventure alone.
- This is fun.
- I don't know very many women
that just walk up to grab a piece of rabbit
after somebody killed it.
- That's beautiful.
- There you go, Melanie. Oh.
- Well, he caught it.
- Oh, that's beautiful. - Give Melanie a piece.
- It's a beautiful thing.
♪ ♪
- I'm probably as creative
as a guy can be for having nothing.
You take, like, that backstrap,
and you want to drape it.
Where it's warm, but it's not too hot.
And then I would cover this
with my hide here, make a little teepee.
Now I'm making jerky.
I got a stove fast.
I killed this guy with a knife and my bare hands.
Hunting is my most confident skill.
I've been a professional hunting guide for eight years.
My go-to improvised shelter as a hunting guide
is almost always a lean-to because it's fast,
and it's something that I can easily do.
Off-season, I'm a carpenter.
I understand all the different structures.
I think that I've got what it takes.
I've never seen a cowboy on the show before either.
That's something right there.
♪ ♪
This is an extremely real experience.
There is no other competition like this.
"Alone" is a crossroads.
You don't know where it is until you get there.
There is islands that I don't know.
I don't know.
We are way out here.
♪ ♪
The first week is very, very critical for me.
I don't want to establish
any sort of presence in my area.
If I can be quiet,
you know, it's naturally going to bring an animal
that's curious in to investigate.
And, you know, God willing,
I'll be able to make a move on that.
♪ ♪
I'm very confident in my skills.
I'm very confident in my mental strength.
Only time will tell.
♪ ♪
- Oh, look at all that meat.
We're going to eat squirrel.
Yay! I'm excited.
I've been hunting ever since I can remember.
My father was a logger,
so I was always in the mountains with my father.
My dad taught me how to spring-snare coyotes,
rabbits, grouse.
Wow, I got a bird.
That is a grouse.
Within a mile of distance from you anywhere,
pretty much at all times, you can find
enough food to live off of the land.
The breasts and the wings, this is what you want to eat.
The longest that I've been out in the backcountry
living off the land was six weeks.
I've built a cabin.
I feel like such a kid.
I've been playing in the mud all day.
I made a fireplace of granite rock
that I just packed over, and it had a chimney
that was almost as tall as me.
♪ Fire ♪
This is my home.
Well, I think I made a weapon-slash-rake.
I'm a warrior in a garden.
I could use my weapons as garden tools.
Look at that.
♪ ♪
Everything's dangerous out here.
I mean, a tree could fall over on you.
Heck, I could cut my finger and get an infection.
You just have to be smart though.
If you're smart and you're well prepared,
then you can face all of that danger
and be perfectly fine.
My intention is to build a log home.
And I know that if I get cold, I am miserable,
so I'm going to do everything possible not to get cold.
To be alone with your thoughts and alone in your mind
is probably going to be the hardest,
because I spend 24 hours a day with my husband and my kids.
But "Alone" means to me the opportunity of a lifetime.
♪ ♪
If I win, I can send all of my children to school.
♪ ♪
My biggest skill is my stubbornness.
[laughs] I don't quit anything.
I fight tooth and nail, to the death,
for everything I do.
I'm not coming home. [laughs]
♪ ♪
narrator: The moment the participants have been
waiting for has finally arrived.
Under the cover of dark,
they're taken to the launch location,
and their equipment is given back to them.
- ♪ With a gleam in his eye ♪
♪ ♪
narrator: As the sun rises,
the participants are informed who will be the first to go,
and the launch officially begins.
- Here we go.
♪ ♪
Melanie.
- Whoo!
- Luke. [cheers]
Say your goodbyes.
- Get out of here.
- Good luck.
- I'm so freaking excited. Pow!
- Bye. Good luck.
- Good luck. - See you.
- Happy hunting.
- Hey. - Good luck.
- Season 10 "Alone" show has just begun.
♪ ♪
- This is definitely the adventure of my life.
I feel super blessed to be here.
- Oh, boy. Here we go.
I am the luckiest girl in the world right now.
Thank you!
Whoo!
- Going to take a little while to sink in,
but this is as real as it gets.
There's going to be snow on the ground
when I leave this place.
♪ ♪
- Ready to be out there and see what I have.
I want to surprise myself out there.
A lot of water and a lot of islands.
This is super real.
♪ ♪
- Man, I don't know. There's not even words
for the emotions that I'm feeling right now.
I mean, it's a rush.
I will be completely alone.
It's just me.
Put me there. I'm ready.
♪ ♪
- It's funny because my family in Brazil,
they have never known idea that this place exists.
Oh, my God. The next few days,
I'm going to jump in this water.
- I'm feeling confident.
I've never been more ready.
I got the best kind of butterflies in my stomach
right now, like--
like an old coon dog you're about to let
out of a cage or something, you know?
- Let's go. I'm ready.
Been preparing for this for so long.
I just want to get to work.
This adventure will be life-changing for me.
♪ ♪
- There's no second chances in this.
You get one shot to do it right.
♪ ♪
I can't wait to get there.
I've been just, like, dreaming of this moment
since I stepped on the plane to begin with.
You know, it's like a kid at Christmas.
♪ ♪
- Whoo-hoo-hoo!
[laughing] Look it.
This is so cool.
I am the luckiest person in the world right now.
Oh, my gosh.
This challenge only comes down to one thing,
and it's who has true grit.
And that's what we're about to find out.
♪ ♪
narrator: Stay tuned for the season premiere
of "Alone" right now.
♪ ♪