Both shows aired at the beginning of August after Season 9. Contestants are provided basic tools and can only use the natural resources around them. Alone: The Skills Challenge, brings back three former contestants who put their bushcraft skills to the test in head-to-head building competitions. Alone: Frozen drops six former contestants on Labrador's east coast in the dead of winter, where they must survive for a set 50 days. In 2022, two new spin-off series were ordered. One group, in the Arctic, was provided with a 1,000-pound bull moose two other groups were sent separately to the swamps of Louisiana and given an alligator and wild boar, respectively. In this series, three people attempt to survive in the wild for 30 days, with no tools or supplies except for their own clothing and a freshly killed animal. Participants attempted to survive for 100 days in the Arctic in order to win a $1 million prize.Ī spin-off series, Alone: The Beast, premiered on January 30, 2020. The seventh season premiered on June 11, 2020. It was set just south of the Arctic Circle on a lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Season 6 premiered on J and featured ten all-new contestants between the ages of 31 and 55. Season 5 was set in Northern Mongolia and allowed losers from previous seasons to return and compete.

Season 4 was set in Northern Vancouver Island with a team dynamic and premiered on June 8, 2017. One day before the season 3 premiere, History announced that casting had begun for season 4.

Season 3 was filmed in the second quarter of 2016 in Patagonia, Argentina and premiered on December 8. On August 19, before the finale of season 1, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a second season, which would begin production in the fall of 2015 on Vancouver Island, Canada. The seasons have been filmed across a range of remote locations, usually on Indigenous-controlled lands, including northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Nahuel Huapi National Park in Argentina, Patagonia, Northern Mongolia, Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, and Chilko Lake in interior British Columbia. The contestant who remains the longest wins a grand prize of $500,000 (increasing to $1 million in season 7).

They may 'tap out' at any time, or be removed due to failing a medical check-in. With the exception of medical check-ins, the participants are isolated from each other and all other humans. It follows the self-documented daily struggles of 10 individuals (seven paired teams in season 4) as they survive alone in the wilderness for as long as possible using a limited amount of survival equipment. Alone is an American survival competition series on History.

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