| Alone | |
|---|---|
| Season 9 | |
  Big River Location of the ninth season | |
| No. of contestants | 10 |
| Winner | Juan Pablo Quiñonez |
| Runner-up | Karie Lee Knoke |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Release | |
| Original network | History |
| Original release | May 26 – August 4, 2022 |
| Season chronology | |
The ninth season of Alone premiered on May 26, 2022, and was filmed in the Nunatsiavut region of northern Labrador, eastern Canada.
Season 9 participants were dropped in September 2021 along the lower reaches of the Big River, Labrador, Canada, 35 km (21 mi) south of the nearest community of Makkovik. The river is surrounded by dense spruce-fir boreal forest dotted by muskeg bogs of peat and Labrador Tea. The surrounding area is abundant in wildlife including Brook Trout, Canadian Beaver, American Black Bear, Spruce Grouse, and Caribou, with the river visited by Harbor Seals in fall. Drop off (Day 1) was on September 18, 2021. [1]
Season nine of Alone sets survivalists in a location with one of the harshest weather conditions yet. Enduring wet, snowy, merciless conditions, survivalists' building ingenuity, mental willpower, and overall wilderness skills are put to the test as they must build their own shelters, forage their own food, and overcome numerous obstacles and dangerous predators in hopes of being the last person standing.
— History Channel, April 2022, Alone Season 9
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [2] | Original air date [2] | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | 1 | "Drop Shock" | May 26, 2022 | N/A | |
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." – Lao Tzu | |||||
| 91 | 2 | "Consequences" | June 2, 2022 | N/A | |
"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for." – Marian Wright Edelman | |||||
| 92 | 3 | "The Law of the Land" | June 9, 2022 | N/A | |
"The future depends on what we do in the present." – Mahatma Gandhi | |||||
| 93 | 4 | "The Beaver" | June 16, 2022 | N/A | |
"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way." – Claude Monet | |||||
| 94 | 5 | "The Land Giveth…" | June 23, 2022 | N/A | |
"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning." – James Russell Lowell | |||||
| 95 | 6 | "The Weasel" | June 30, 2022 | N/A | |
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." – George Bernard Shaw | |||||
| 96 | 7 | "The Birds" | July 7, 2022 | N/A | |
"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." – John Muir | |||||
| 97 | 8 | "Gut Feeling" | July 14, 2022 | N/A | |
"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed." – Edgar Allen Poe [sic] | |||||
| 98 | 9 | "The Ice Up" | July 21, 2022 | N/A | |
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." – Harriet Beecher Stowe | |||||
| 99 | 10 | "Winter's Grasp" | July 28, 2022 | N/A | |
"Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude." – Mary Shelley | |||||
| 100 | 11 | "Fight, Flight or Freeze" | August 4, 2022 | N/A | |
"Out of difficulties grow miracles." – Jean de La Bruyère | |||||
| Name | Age | Gender | Hometown | Country | Status | Reason they tapped out | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Pablo Quiñonez | 30 | Male | Pinawa, Manitoba | Canada | 78 days | Winner | [3] |
| Karie Lee Knoke | 57 | Female | Sandpoint, Idaho | United States | 75 days | Starvation, exhaustion | |
| Teimojin Tan | 31 | Male | Montreal, Quebec | Canada | 63 days | Missed his family | |
| Adam Riley | 36 | Male | Fayetteville, Arkansas | United States | 52 days | Starvation | |
| Jessie Krebs | 49 | Female | Pagosa Springs, Colorado | 46 days (medically evacuated) | Stomach inflammation | ||
| Tom Garstang | 35 | Male | Earlysville, Virginia | 43 days | Fell, injured back and knee | ||
| Terry Burns | 31 | Male | Homer, Alaska | 42 days (medically evacuated) | Low BMI (lost too much weight), parasitic infection | ||
| Benji Hill | 46 | Male | Bellevue, Idaho | 27 days (medically evacuated) | Giardia infection | ||
| Igor Limansky | 39 | Male | Salt Lake City, Utah | 20 days | Heart palpitations, exhaustion | ||
| Jacques Turcotte | 23 | Male | Juneau, Alaska | 15 days | Missed his family |
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