TLDR: Alone Season 13, subtitled World Championship, premiered June 17, 2026 on The History Channel and marks the franchise’s first true international format, with ten survivalists from seven countries dropped into Canada’s Beaufort Delta to compete for a $500,000 prize.
Two contestants, David Young and Dave Booth, have already tapped out in the season’s opening days, while the remaining eight settle in for a brutal subarctic winter.
For twelve seasons, Alone has dropped solo survivalists into some of the harshest environments on Earth and let the last person standing walk away with a six-figure prize.
Season 13 keeps that core format intact, but reframes the entire competition as a global event.
Produced by Leftfield Pictures, a label of ITV Studios, Alone: World Championship gathers ten experienced survivalists from seven different countries and sets them loose in the Canadian Arctic.
It’s the first time the flagship US series has framed itself explicitly as an international competition rather than a domestic survival show.
When and Where to Watch Alone Season 13
New episodes air Wednesdays at 9 PM ET/PT on The History Channel, with the broadcast pushed back an hour to 10 PM ET/PT for Canadian viewers.
Some outlets have listed a Thursday air date, but that’s the next-day video-on-demand release through the History Channel app and other digital platforms, not the original linear broadcast.
Cord-cutters have several options. Philo and Sling TV both carry The History Channel live, and Hulu + Live TV works as well, though Hulu’s standalone streaming plan only offers next-day episodes rather than the live broadcast.
Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV both sell individual episodes or a season pass for next-day viewing.
One thing worth flagging for anyone trying to cut costs: The History Channel currently isn’t carried on YouTube TV or Fubo in the US, so subscribers to those services will need to look at Philo, Sling, or a direct digital purchase instead.
Canadian viewers can access the live feed through Stack TV, available as an add-on through Prime Video, and Australian viewers can stream next-day episodes through Stan.
Where Is Alone Season 13 Filmed?
This season was filmed in the Beaufort Delta, near Aklavik in Canada’s Northwest Territories, roughly 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle and about 150 kilometers from where Season 11 was shot.
It’s a genuinely brutal location even by Alone standards.
The region sits on continuous permafrost, which causes erratic water levels in the delta’s streams and channels. Warming temperatures have also accelerated slope failures known as retrogressive thaw slumps, which dump heavy sediment into the same waterways contestants depend on for fishing and drinking water.
Temperatures swing hard as the season progresses too, starting in the mild 5 to 15 degree Celsius range before polar air masses drag the region down toward negative 30 to negative 50 degrees Celsius.
Add in dense grizzly bear, wolf, and moose populations during their own seasonal mating and feeding pushes, plus brutal early swarms of black flies, and contestants are dealing with a genuinely stacked set of threats well before the cold even becomes the main problem.
Meet the Season 13 Cast
The ten-person field mixes military veterans, wilderness educators, and a few genuine outliers. Aaron Barnard, a 40-year-old tradesman from Prince George, British Columbia, grew up hunting and tracking on a family hobby farm and is competing in memory of a close friend who died in a rafting accident.
Dave Booth, 54, spent 23 years as a fishing guide and 28 years as a teacher and school principal in Alaska before joining the cast.
Nero Buys, 40, served in the Australian Army’s Special Air Service Regiment before spending eight years as a stay-at-home father and eventually founding an outdoor youth program. J
acks Genega, also 40, is the field’s only woman, a former video editor turned van-life traveler who studied bushcraft across Europe and now runs a self-reliance school called Wildcard Wilderness.
Will Longley, 37, grew up in a traditional Iñupiaq hunting and fishing camp in Alaska and is applying ancestral techniques to a new landscape.
Žiga Ogorelec, 35, holds a PhD and researches in Ljubljana, Slovenia, while also running a bushcraft school and logging more than 80 days of off-grid survival experience in his life outside the show.
Clementino Pedrosa, 41, is a Portuguese Army sergeant with 22 years of service, including time in the Paratroopers and as a survival instructor for the Comandos.
Andrew Price, 51, represents Wales and has spent three decades teaching ancestral skills through his own bushcraft school after a career in BBC television production.
David Young, 31, was a project manager and former wildlife biologist from Spokane, Washington, married with two young daughters.
Poldi Waldmann-Moloney, 24, is the youngest contestant in the field and the first Alone cast member born in the 2000s, a New Zealand whitewater kayaking instructor who has harvested over 100 big-game animals with a bow.
Who’s Tapped Out So Far
Two contestants were gone within the first four days. David Young tapped out on Day 3, and his exit had nothing to do with technical survival skills.
Despite his background as a wildlife biologist, the isolation from his wife and two young daughters became too much to handle, a reminder that even on a show built around physical endurance, the psychological toll is often what actually ends a run.
Dave Booth lasted one day longer before a gear mistake caught up with him. After losing his primary fire on Day 1, he accidentally dropped and burned his ferrocerium rod in the fire on Day 4.
Even though he’d just harvested a 40 pound beaver that same day, giving him a serious supply of fat and protein, he had no reliable way to start fire in the wet conditions and was forced to tap out.
His beaver harvest and pelt were donated to the local Gwich’in First Nation out of respect for the land the season was filmed on.
How Much Can the Winner Actually Win?
The grand prize for Season 13 is a flat $500,000, awarded to whichever contestant outlasts everyone else, regardless of the exact day count they reach.
That’s the standard Alone prize structure, and it’s worth clearing up some confusion floating around online about a $1,000,000 payout.
That bigger figure comes from Season 7’s one-off “Million Dollar Challenge” format, which required contestants to survive a full 100 days in the Arctic to claim it. Season 13 doesn’t use that format.
It’s back to the traditional last-person-standing setup, the same one covered in our breakdown of how much Alone contestants actually get paid, including what happens for those who tap out early.
With eight contestants still in the running and winter only getting started in the Beaufort Delta, the real test of who can manage their fire, food, and isolation well enough to make it to spring is just beginning.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does Alone Season 13 air?
New episodes air Wednesdays at 9 PM ET/PT on The History Channel. Next-day on-demand episodes become available Thursdays through the History Channel app and digital platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV.
Where is Alone Season 13 filmed?
Season 13 was filmed in the Beaufort Delta near Aklavik in Canada’s Northwest Territories, roughly 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
How much is the Alone Season 13 prize?
The grand prize is $500,000. A commonly cited $1,000,000 figure actually comes from Season 7’s separate “Million Dollar Challenge” format and doesn’t apply to Season 13.
Who has been eliminated from Alone Season 13?
David Young tapped out on Day 3 due to homesickness, and Dave Booth tapped out on Day 4 after accidentally burning his fire starter and losing the ability to reliably start fire.
How many countries are represented in Alone Season 13?
Seven countries are represented across the ten-person cast: the United States, Canada, Australia, Slovenia, Portugal, Wales in the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.
