TLDR: Andrew Price, 51, from the Gower Peninsula in Wales, graduated with a media degree, worked briefly in BBC and independent television production in London, then left the city to build a life outdoors.
He founded Dryad Bushcraft in 2004 with funding from the Welsh Assembly, has co-hosted a BAFTA-nominated ITV series for seven years, consulted for Bear Grylls productions as a wilderness safety specialist, and edited Bushcraft magazine as a global ambassador.
He is the oldest remaining competitor in Season 13 after Dave Booth’s Day 4 exit, and his strategy prioritizes energy conservation and passive food gathering.
Andrew Price has been in front of cameras his entire adult career, which is unusual for someone whose stated ambition is to be as far from civilization as possible.
The two things are not as contradictory as they sound.
He started in television production and ended up as a television presenter, a wilderness safety consultant, and a magazine editor, all while running a bushcraft school in the first officially designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain.
He has spent more time in front of cameras documenting survival than most people have spent watching it on screen. What he has not done much of, until now, is demonstrate it without a production crew within shouting distance.
From Plymouth to London to the Gower
Price was born on February 15, 1974, in Wales, and grew up on the Gower Peninsula, where his grandfather taught him coastal foraging for seaweed, mussels, and wild berries, and his father introduced him to kayak fishing for sea bass and mackerel from a traditional canvas-and-wood kayak.
At fifteen he joined the Air Training Corps, where he trained in rifle marksmanship, air navigation, glider aviation, and military camp craft.
At eighteen, a Raleigh International expedition took him to Malaysia and Borneo, where he lived with the Orang Asli people of the Cameron Highlands.
Watching their relationship with the tropical rainforest, integrated, low-impact, built on thousands of years of accumulated ecological knowledge, fundamentally changed how he understood survival.
It was not a battle against nature. It was a conversation with it.
He earned a BA Honours in Media and Theatre Studies from the University of Plymouth, graduating in 1997, and moved to London to work in television production for the BBC and several independent companies.
The city did not suit him.
Within two years he had left, and rather than returning directly to Wales, he spent ten years traveling across Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Canada, the United States, and Scandinavia, studying ancestral technologies directly from indigenous populations and survival specialists.
Dryad Bushcraft and Twenty-Two Years of Teaching
In 2004, Price founded Dryad Bushcraft in Parkmill on the Gower Peninsula, with seed funding from the Welsh Assembly’s Sustainable Development Fund.
The Gower was designated Britain’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956. Its carboniferous limestone cliffs, salt marshes, sand dunes, and deep glacial valleys provide a genuinely diverse teaching environment for the pre-industrial skills the school specializes in.
The school offers courses from one-day introductions through week-long Bushmaster programs, with a curriculum spanning matchless fire lighting, friction fire, wild foraging and fungi identification, flint knapping, hide preparation, primitive trapping, and extreme weather shelter construction.
Courses run in both English and Welsh, a commitment to preserving regional heritage that reflects the school’s roots in the Welsh Assembly’s sustainable development mission.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Price expanded the curriculum to include nature therapy workshops designed with local health boards to address clinical anxiety and depression through outdoor activity.
He also maintains a career as a broadcaster. For seven years he co-hosted Coast and Country on ITV Cymru Wales, a BAFTA-nominated regional series exploring Wales’s geography, ecology, and history.
He has contributed to BBC Wales’s The Coal House, appeared on BBC national programming, worked as a wilderness safety consultant for Bear Grylls’s Into the Wild through Discovery India and Banijay Productions, and currently serves as editor and global ambassador for Bushcraft magazine.
His YouTube channel has nearly 13,000 subscribers, and his gear video for Alone Season 13 generated over 100,000 views.
The Complication He Cannot Train Around
Price has one documented gap in his preparation that is genuinely significant for this competition: bow hunting is illegal in the United Kingdom. He has practiced target archery extensively, but he has never hunted live game with a bow.
He brought a bow anyway, because on Alone a moose or caribou harvest is often the difference between a two-week run and a two-month one.
But his strategy appropriately accounts for the limitation, prioritizing passive fishing and snare trapping for daily sustenance while the bow remains a low-probability, high-reward tool held in reserve.
His Approach on Season 13
Price has brought a Gränsfors Bruk Scandinavian Forest Axe, a folding saw, and a standard gear list built around energy conservation.
His shelter is well-insulated and appropriately scaled, a deliberate contrast to the massive log structures that have burned out other contestants, most notably the oversized tipi that contributed to Poldi Waldmann-Moloney’s Day 14 departure.
At 51, he is the oldest active competitor in the season following the departure of Dave Booth.
His philosophy frames that maturity as an asset: deliberate pacing, careful risk assessment, and the psychological discipline that comes from twenty-two years of teaching people how to manage fear and discomfort in the wild.
Where younger competitors can afford to make high-energy recoveries from early mistakes, Price’s strategy is built on not making them.
His camera work has been noted for its natural clarity, which makes sense given his broadcasting background.
Self-documenting in the Arctic under physical duress is a fundamentally different task from editing in a post-production suite, but the instinct for how to frame a shot and how to speak to a lens remains.
Through Episode 4 he remains active and composed. For the full current standings, see the Season 13 hub.
Andrew Price and Alone Season 13: Frequently Asked Questions
What is Andrew Price’s background before Alone?
Andrew Price founded Dryad Bushcraft on the Gower Peninsula in Wales in 2004, co-hosted the BAFTA-nominated ITV series Coast and Country for seven years, consulted for Bear Grylls wilderness productions, and serves as editor and global ambassador for Bushcraft magazine. He spent ten years studying ancestral survival technologies with indigenous peoples across Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Canada, the US, and Scandinavia before establishing his school.
What is Dryad Bushcraft?
Dryad Bushcraft is a survival and wilderness school founded by Andrew Price in 2004 in Parkmill on the Gower Peninsula, Wales, with seed funding from the Welsh Assembly’s Sustainable Development Fund. Courses run in English and Welsh and cover matchless fire lighting, friction fire, wild foraging, flint knapping, hide preparation, and primitive trapping, with specialized programs in nature therapy developed in partnership with local health boards.
How old is Andrew Price on Alone Season 13?
Andrew Price is 51 years old, making him the oldest remaining competitor in the Season 13 field following Dave Booth’s Day 4 departure. He frames his age as a tactical advantage, citing the deliberate pacing and risk management that come with decades of experience over the high-energy physical output strategies of younger competitors.
