The History Channel’s first season of the Alone spinoff, Alone: Frozen, continues with episode three – “The Edge.” Airing August 25, 2022, episode three begins with five former Alone contestants remaining in the quest for the $500,000 prize. Anyone who makes it to Day 50 will take home a share of the pot.
Episode three takes the action in the frigid Labrador wilderness from six days into the competition through the 10th. At the start of the episode, it appeared that many of the remaining survivalists were so cold, hungry, and miserable that they were ready to tap out. But by the time the episode wrapped up, four continued in the challenge.
Greg Ovens, Age 58, British Columbia – Season 3, Survived 51 Days
44 Days Left: Greg has decided to tap out. He’s feeling a lot of anxiety and Labrador is bringing up too many memories of Patagonia. Plus, he hasn’t been able to catch any fish and has been forced to dine on just mussels.
Greg decided this is a game for younger people. He’s not going to push himself to thrive at the risk of causing damage to his health. With just four people left in the challenge, the four remaining survivalists are now guaranteed a $125,000 payout if they all make it to Day 50.
Callie Russell, Age 34, Montana – Season 7, Survived 89 Days
44 Days Left: Callie whispers as she points out a seal on a rock right behind her. She’s decided the seal is a female and it’s her friend.
Callie is determined to only leave if she’s injured or can’t find food. She sets out to collect mussels, noting that at low tide the grocery store opens. The seal fat she already collected combined with these mussels and seaweed covers pretty much all the major food groups: fat, protein, greens, and vitamins. She’s still hoping to get some fish using her trap line.
For now, the mussels will be a food source she can rely on.
Back at camp, she cooks up a stew while acknowledging she’s never lived on the coast before. The seaweed she’s cooking (Bladderwrack) is used to treat thyroid problems.
42 Days Left: Callie heads to the beach for water and spots a grouse. She didn’t bring her bow and heads back to retrieve it. Hopefully, she can find it again. She’s been dreaming of shooting one and really thinks a big mouthful of grouse would be delicious.
She searches for the grouse, listening and observing as she walks through the forest. Callie hears the grouse’s call and takes a shot. She misses and her arrow lands in the water. She doesn’t want to wait for low tide because she’s worried it will have drifted away by then.
The ocean’s only 36 degrees when she steps into it to recover her arrow. She goes in waist deep and retrieves it, but she’s freezing now. Callie admits she wanted to go into the Atlantic anyway.
Callie heads back to her shelter to warm up her feet. Her previous frostbite injury makes her susceptible to it again, and she’s aware she needs to get her toes nice and warm to prevent it. Callie realizes this season she’ll have to constantly take care of her feet if she wants to last 50 days.
Amós Rodriguez, Age 41, Indiana – Season 7, Survived 58 Days
44 Days Left: Amós is working on his fire inside his shelter when we catch up with him. He needs to seriously work on collecting firewood which was one of his downfalls from his previous Alone experience. Unfortunately, his area doesn’t have that many firewood resources. However, he does find a lengthy piece of driftwood that he’s able to cut up for wood.
Amós hopes to truly connect with this land and is thankful to the indigenous people who are allowing them to go on this quest of self-discovery.
He burns up about 500 calories an hour chopping the wood. He’s getting tired and makes a mistake, almost cutting his leg. Amós decides it’s best to take a break rather than cut his leg.
41 Days Left: The lack of food, the dehydration, and the cold have made Amós feel a little down. It’s only been a week and he can’t believe he’s already feeling like this.
Amós checks for fish stuck in the shallows and throws his line into the ocean. One fish or rabbit won’t help much because of how many calories he burns just surviving. He loves to fish and survived on fish for 50 days on Alone.
That night Amós admits that shore fishing isn’t going to cut it. Instead, he’ll try to figure out how to hunt a bear. That’s the only way his high metabolism will allow him to survive to the end.
Woniya Thibeault, Age 45, California – Season 6, Survived 73 Days
43 Days Left: It’s 2:30am when Woniya accidentally pepper sprays her sleeping bag and clothing, including her fur parka and rain jacket. The safety comes off easily and she didn’t realize it had been knocked off. She also got it on her hands where she has open wounds.
“Not as restful a night as I had really been hoping for,” laughs Woniya.
She also touched her eyes during the night, which is horrible, and she can’t put on her rain jacket without spreading the pepper spray on everything she’s wearing.
A short while later she zooms in on the pepper spray on her jacket, and it’s definitely coated. Her solution is to rub dirt on it, as she does with poison oak when she’s out running. If it doesn’t take the pepper spray off, at least it will form a protective layer over the chemical.
On the bright side, bears who sniff her wall might not want to hang out for long.
The tide is the lowest it’s been since she started her journey, and she wants to scavenge as many mussels as she can grab. She calls it Operation Mussel Farm and wants to harvest them now and then store them somewhere accessible (and still in the water) for when she needs them.
Woniya recalls spending too many calories on things that didn’t feed her during season six. She’s shifting her strategy for this season.
The tide’s coming in as she realizes the bag she was storing her mussels in has drifted out into the water. It’s too important of a resource to just let go, so she strips down to the bare necessities to retrieve it. She’s able to grab it, but the water is incredibly cold. The area’s known as Iceberg Alley for a good reason.
40 Days Left: The storm’s intense and it’s kicking her butt. Her one dependable, warm, dry rock wall is now leaking, and her sleeping bag is soaked. It’s 34 degrees and now she thinks the shelter location was too big of a gamble. Her tarp has a lot of holes, and she confesses the Arctic felt abandoned and easy compared to what she’s enduring in Labrador.
Morning arrives and Woniya smiles as she points out a gorgeous full rainbow. She’s excited to see days without rain and now that it’s not pouring, she needs to address the rain inside her shelter. She’s based her strategy on snow, not rain, and needs to shore up her shelter.
A great deal of wood has washed up on shore that she can use on her shelter. Woniya believes her shelter’s not just for warmth but also psychologically important and comforting.
The rain starts up again as she continues to work on her shelter. She fills in areas with holes on her tarp with branches while expressing how proud she is to be a part of a group of survivalists like this.
A short while later, the storm appears to be over and the sun breaks through the clouds right before sunset.
Michelle Finn, Age 47, Maine – Season 8, Survived 21 Days
43 Days Left: Michelle’s working on finishing up her shelter while remarking on the stillness of the day. She’s happy she had a morning poo and cheers that she’s only missed two days of doing it thus far. On her previous challenge, she went nine days without pooping.
Today she plans on gathering clams and mussels during low tide, although she’d rather be hunting.
She spots a grouse and whistles, hoping to corral it back toward her shelter so she can grab her bow – which she forgot to bring.
She takes a shot and it’s a kill. She’s excited about the prospect of a big evening meal and gets a bit emotional thinking about it. This is her first kill on Alone, although she always knew she could be a hunter.
She never had the opportunity during her prior Alone season to even shoot a single arrow.
Michelle tosses in some cranberries as she cooks up her first grouse. She feels immense gratitude to the grouse for providing a decent meal.
42 Days Left: The wind has been so insane that Michelle didn’t sleep much. After the sun’s up she gets back to work on her shelter. It needs to be strong and insulated because of the winds, and she’s determined to protect the tarp from ripping and blowing by creating a ladder of sorts and laying moss over it. The moss will provide insulation and keep the tarp in place.
Michelle feels like this area is her home and that she was meant to be here. She didn’t feel connected to the land on season eight, but this season she does. She wants to come out of this feeling accomplished and believing she’s learned from her mistakes.
Her previous season taught her to put up her shelter immediately and also immediately start hunting and fishing. “That’s how I’ll be here for 50 days,” says Michelle.
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