Survival Show Guide
Big River, Nunatsiavut region, northern Labrador, Canada (approx. 35 km / 21 mi south of Makkovik)

Teimojin Tan

Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Alone Season 9: Labrador (marketed on some platforms as "Alone: Polar Bear Island")

Age on show
31
Gear sourced
10/10
How far did Teimojin get? (tap to reveal)
Finished 3rd of 10
Days lasted
63
Placement
3rd
Teimojin Tan
Photo: Photo courtesy of Dr. Teimojin Tan / Survival Doctors (survivaldoctors.com)

A closer look at the loadout

Teimojin Tan's list is the Season 9 consensus build executed cleanly: bow, fishing line and hooks, and trapping wire stacking three food methods, emergency rations as the early buffer, then sleeping bag, axe, multitool, ferro rod, 2 quart pot, and paracord covering the fundamentals. It mirrors, category for category, the kits carried by the two people who went deepest into this Labrador season, with no recorded brands anywhere in it.

What distinguishes it is who packed it. Tan is a physician and former Canadian Armed Forces corporal, and a doctor's kit that looks exactly like the textbook is not a lack of imagination, it is triage thinking: cover every failure mode with proven categories and spend your creativity on execution instead. The rations choice reads especially clinical, a hedge against the exact early-season caloric hole that cold, wet boreal terrain digs for everyone.

Every item Teimojin brought

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How far Teimojin pushed it (reveals the result)

Physician and former Canadian Armed Forces corporal who later launched a 'Survival Doctors' channel teaching medical emergency skills.

Why the run ended: Missed his family

Our take on the run

Sixty-three days and third place, ended not by his body but by missing his family, which is its own kind of verdict on how well the physical side went. We suspect his medical training was the quiet asset of the run: the ability to read his own weight loss, hydration, and injuries accurately is exactly what keeps a contestant out of the evacuation statistics that ended other runs in this valley. The top three of this season all cleared 60 days, an unusually tight cluster in our records, and Tan's share of that tightness came from a textbook list executed with a clinician's discipline. The wall he finally hit was the one no discipline touches.

Compare with the rest of the Season 9 cast or see what every winner carried.