Tarcisio "Taz" Ramos Dos Santos
Becket, Massachusetts, USA · Alone Season 10: Saskatchewan
- Age on show
- 35
- Gear sourced
- 10/10
How far did Tarcisio get? (tap to reveal)
- Days lasted
- 40
- Placement
- 5th
A closer look at the loadout
Tarcisio Taz Ramos Dos Santos made one visible bet with his ten slots: a tarp instead of a saw. He kept the axe as his only cutting tool and bought himself a head start on shelter, a trade almost nobody else in the cast made, and one that reshapes the daily labor math: faster cover from the first night, slower firewood every night after. All ten items sit in the record at category level, without brands.
His background makes the bet legible. Raised in Brazil largely without running water or electricity, he came to this game with off-grid living as a lived baseline rather than a trained skill, and people with that history tend to optimize for immediate needs, cover, fire, water, over processing efficiency. The rest of the list is the full standard spread, bow plus fishing line plus snare wire for three food paths, so the tarp is the single deviation in an otherwise orthodox kit.
Every item Tarcisio brought
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category exampleSleeping bag
Pictured: Wiggy's Antarctic mummy-style bag (-60F synthetic, long/wide)
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category exampleFishing line and hooks
Pictured: unspecified assorted hooks + monofilament line
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category exampleSnare wire
Pictured: unspecified 20-gauge snare wire
category exampleBow and arrows
Pictured: unspecified 40-lb takedown recurve bow
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How far Tarcisio pushed it (reveals the result)
Born and raised in Brazil, where he lived mostly without running water or electricity.
Why the run ended: Starvation
Our take on the run
Forty days and fifth place, ended by starvation, which puts him precisely in the season's middle tier: clear of the bottom half's sub-21 day exits, well short of the top three's 55 plus. The record never tells us whether the tarp trade helped or hurt, only that hunger, the season's universal antagonist, made the question moot. What we can say is that his three-method food stack rules out the usual failure story; he did not starve for lack of tools, he starved at Reindeer Lake, like most of a field whose median run this season was barely five weeks. The tarp-for-saw swap deserves a longer test than his season gave it.
Compare with the rest of the Season 10 cast or see what every winner carried.