Every Alone Winner in Order: The Complete List of Alone Winners by Season

Spoiler note: this post names every Alone winner, including their final day counts.

I keep the placement and days-lasted numbers for every season in our season guides, so here is the whole roll of champions in one place, ordered by show and season. It covers the flagship US show through season 12, all three completed Alone Australia seasons, and the Frozen spin-off. Season 13, the World Championship, is still airing as I write this, so it has no winner yet and is left off the table below, and Alone Australia's fourth season (announced for Sápmi in Arctic Finland) has not aired.

The complete Alone winners table, season by season

Days lasted and prize come straight from each season's normalized record. Locations are shortened here; the full regional detail lives on each season page.

Show / Season	Winner	Days	Location	Prize
US 1	Alan Kay	56	Vancouver Island, BC	$500,000
US 2	David McIntyre	66	Vancouver Island, BC	$500,000
US 3	Zachary Fowler	87	Patagonia, Argentina	$500,000
US 4	Jim Baird and Ted Baird	75	Vancouver Island, BC	$500,000 (split)
US 5	Sam Larson	60	Selenge, Mongolia	$500,000
US 6	Jordan Jonas	77	Great Slave Lake, NWT	$500,000
US 7	Roland Welker	100	Great Slave Lake, NWT	$1,000,000
US 8	Clay Hayes	74	Chilko Lake, BC	$500,000
US 9	Juan Pablo Quiñonez	78	Labrador, Canada	$500,000
US 10	Alan Tenta	66	Reindeer Lake, SK	$500,000
US 11	William Larkham Jr.	84	Mackenzie Delta, NWT	$500,000
US 12	Nathan Olsen	34	Great Karoo, South Africa	$500,000
AUS 1	Gina Chick	67	Tasmania	$250,000 AUD
AUS 2	Krzysztof Wojtkowski	64	Fiordland, New Zealand	$250,000 AUD
AUS 3	Shay Williamson	76	Tasmania	$250,000 AUD
Frozen	Woniya Thibeault	50	Labrador, Canada	$500,000

Every US winner, in order

Alan Kay (season 1, 56 days) set the template: a survival instructor from Georgia who lived off limpets, seaweed, and shoreline protein while rivals burned out or quit, winning by one day over Sam Larson.

David McIntyre (season 2, 66 days) was a survival instructor from Michigan who died in November 2024. His win is still remembered as a masterclass in routine: a raised sleeping platform, a gill net, a seafood box trap, and days structured around staying warm, dry, fed, and watered so he would have no reason to quit.

Zachary Fowler (season 3, 87 days) took the show's first non-Canadian season in Patagonia mainly on dozens of trout, and won when runner-up Carleigh Fairchild was medically evacuated on day 86, a one-day margin.

Jim Baird and Ted Baird (season 4, 75 days) are the only co-winners in US history. Season 4 ("Lost & Found") paired contestants as teams; the Toronto brothers built a canoe-style boat to fish their lake and outlasted the second-place father-son team by a single day, splitting the $500,000.

Sam Larson (season 5, 60 days) turned his season 1 runner-up finish into the franchise's first redemption win in Mongolia, after overhauling his kit with a warmer sleeping bag and rations in place of a fishing kit.

Jordan Jonas (season 6, 77 days) changed what winning could look like: about 20 days in he killed a bull moose, the first big-game kill in show history, and rode several hundred pounds of meat to the finish.

Roland Welker (season 7, 100 days) remains the only million-dollar winner. The one-off format required surviving a fixed 100 days; the Alaska hunting guide was the only contestant to get there, building a log shelter and feeding himself with a longbow, gill net, and snare wire.

Clay Hayes (season 8, 74 days) won the show's first true alpine season at Chilko Lake with a self-made Osage orange selfbow, harvesting a deer along the way and edging a one-day finish.

Juan Pablo Quiñonez (season 9, 78 days) ground out a fishing-led win on Labrador's Big River, outlasting runner-up Karie Lee Knoke by three days.

Alan Tenta (season 10, 66 days) was a 52-year-old teacher who built his kit around redundancy (fishing kit, longbow, and snare wire all at once) on Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan.

William Larkham Jr. (season 11, 84 days) played his trade as a commercial fisherman, using a homemade gill net in the fish-rich Mackenzie Delta above the Arctic Circle and winning by one day over Timber Cleghorn.

Nathan Olsen (season 12, 34 days) won the show's first desert season in South Africa's Great Karoo, the shortest winning run on record, in a season where the entire field averaged just 16 days.

The Alone Australia winners

Gina Chick (season 1, 67 days) became the first Alone Australia champion in Tasmania at age 52, the oldest winner of any version at the time and only the second woman to win any Alone franchise. Krzysztof Wojtkowski (season 2, 64 days) won in Fiordland, New Zealand without ever voluntarily tapping out; a day-64 medical check ended his run, at which point producers revealed he had already outlasted everyone. Shay Williamson (season 3, 76 days), a professional possum trapper from New Zealand, lived mainly on eels, fish, plants, and worms, and holds the longest Alone Australia winning run. The full Australian breakdown lives in our Alone Australia winners list.

The two entries that need an asterisk

The season 4 line counts as one winning result but names two people, and that is not a data glitch. Season 4 was a team format that paired contestants as siblings, parents and children, or spouses. Jim and Ted Baird both finished with placement 1 at 75 days and split the standard $500,000 as a team, the only time the flagship show has produced co-winners.

The Frozen spin-off ran on a different logic again. Instead of last-person-standing, its $500,000 was structured to be divided among everyone who reached a fixed 50-day cap. Woniya Thibeault was the only one of six returnees to get there, so she took the whole amount and became the first woman to win any version of Alone. I break that format down further in our piece on Frozen versus the main show.

What the Alone series winners have in common

Counting the Baird brothers separately, the franchise has crowned 17 winners across 16 winning results. Gear lists are recorded for 16 of the 17 (Shay Williamson's kit is the gap), and the overlap in what they carried is striking: 15 of 16 carried an axe, 15 of 16 carried a saw, 14 of 16 carried a ferro rod, and 14 of 16 carried a fishing kit. Nathan Olsen is the single exception on the tools side, the only recorded winner who carried neither an axe nor a saw, a choice that made sense in a desert with little shelter-grade timber. Only 9 of 16 carried a bow, and just 6 of 16 carried a gill net, yet the gill net six include some of the most comfortable wins on the list (McIntyre, both Bairds, Welker, Larkham). The full item-by-item comparison is in the 10 items every winner picked.

Has anyone won Alone more than once?

No. No contestant has won twice, and the closest cases are second-chance arcs: Sam Larson finished second in season 1 and won season 5, and Woniya Thibeault was the season 6 runner-up at 73 days before winning Frozen. Nobody has entered two seasons and won both.

Who has lasted the longest to win Alone?

Roland Welker's 100 days in season 7 is the longest winning run, though it came under the fixed-goal format. Under standard last-person-standing rules, Zachary Fowler's 87 days in Patagonia leads, followed by William Larkham Jr. at 84. At the other end, Nathan Olsen's 34-day win in season 12 is the shortest, a product of the Great Karoo collapsing the whole field early. Prize structures behind each number are in our prize money breakdown, the record extremes are in the records of Alone, and the always-current champion roster lives on our winners page.