| Alone | |
|---|---|
| Season 5 | |
  Location of the fifth season. | |
| No. of contestants | 10 |
| Winner | Sam Larson |
| Runner-up | Britt Ahart |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Release | |
| Original network | History |
| Original release | June 14 – August 16, 2018 |
| Season chronology | |
The fifth season of Alone , a.k.a. Alone: Redemption, premiered on June 14, 2018. Marketed as a "crossover", its 10 contestants are non-winners selected from the previous four seasons of Alone.
The fifth season was set in Northern Mongolia in Asia. The series was filmed in Khonin Nuga near the city of Züünkharaa, Selenge aimag. [1] "Khonin Nuga" is a valley located close to the Khentii Mountains of Northern Mongolia, one of the country's unique and still largely untouched places. [2]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 1 | "Redemption" | June 14, 2018 | 1.409 [3] | |
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." – F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||||
| 47 | 2 | "The Haunting" | June 21, 2018 | 1.296 [4] | |
"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes." – Winston Churchill | |||||
| 48 | 3 | "The Serpent" | June 28, 2018 | 1.398 [5] | |
"It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves." – Sir Edmund Hillary | |||||
| 49 | 4 | "Mongolia's Wrath" | July 5, 2018 | 1.188 [6] | |
"Nature, in her untamed state, is savage and unrelenting." – Fennel Hudson | |||||
| 50 | 5 | "The Bowels Of Hell" | July 12, 2018 | 1.253 [7] | |
"Over every mountain there is a path, though it may not be seen from the valley." – Theodore Roethke | |||||
| 51 | 6 | "Of Mice And Men" | July 19, 2018 | 1.657 [8] | |
"...we do not own these woods. They own us." – Timothy Goodwin | |||||
| 52 | 7 | "Desperate Measures" | July 26, 2018 | 1.661 [9] | |
"Redemption can be found in hell itself if that's where you happen to be." – Lin Jensen | |||||
| 53 | 8 | "Slayer II" | August 2, 2018 | 1.350 [10] | |
"Solitude, isolation are painful things, and beyond human endurance." – Jules Verne | |||||
| 54 | 9 | "Starvation's Shadow" | August 9, 2018 | 1.429 [11] | |
"The mountains are calling and I must go." – John Muir | |||||
| 55 | 10 | "Cold War" | August 16, 2018 | 1.563 [12] | |
"By endurance we conquer." – Ernest Shackleton | |||||
| Name | Age | Gender | Hometown | Country | Original season | Status | Reason they tapped out | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Larson | 25 | Male | Lincoln, Nebraska | United States | 1 | Winner – 60 days | Victor | [13] |
| Britt Ahart | 41 | Male | Mantua, Ohio | 3 | 56 days | Missed his family | [13] | |
| Larry Roberts | 46 | Male | Rush City, Minnesota | 2 | 41 days | Missed his family | [13] | |
| Dave Nessia | 50 | Male | Salt Lake City, Utah | 3 | 36 days | Just felt "right" | [13] | |
| Randy Champagne | 31 | Male | Boulder, Utah | 2 | 35 days | Lonely | [13] | |
| Brooke Whipple | 45 | Female | Fox, Alaska | 4 | 28 days | Lonely | [13] | |
| Jesse Bosdell | 32 | Male | Skowhegan, Maine | 24 days (medically evacuated) | Constipation, possible fecal impaction | [13] | ||
| Nicole Apelian | 47 | Female | Raymond, Washington | 2 | 9 days (medically evacuated) | MS attack | [13] | |
| Brad Richardson | 24 | Male | Fox Lake, Illinois | 4 | 7 days | Had no food the whole time | [13] | |
| Carleigh Fairchild | 30 | Female | Anchorage, Alaska | 3 | 5 days (medically evacuated) | Fish hook in hand | [13] |
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