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Northern Finland, it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen in my

life. I'm honestly lost for words.

It's a whole new frontier.

I'm a 36-year-old woman frolicking in the boreal forest.

Look at that. How majestic.

This place is beautiful.

This place is a very spiritual and sacred land.

How long have you been here, Big Rock? Man, since the last ice age.

As is Australia, but there's something different about this one. It's like, I

think there's a little bit of deceit in the Arctic.

You've got wolverines, wolves, bears.

What was that? I was born in the Arctic Circle.

Feels like home.

Big stream of green light. That is so beautiful.

These Australians think they know what they're in for. They have no idea.

Oh, my God, it's freezing.

Winter is coming.

We are heading into one of the harshest winters on this planet.

Look at that. That's a white.

It can get down to negative 10, 20, half negative 50.

If I didn't feel like I was in the Arctic Circle, I do now.

That's winter.

It's next level.

I hardly have the energy left for my body to keep me warm anymore.

Things are changing here very quickly.

In this environment.

The smallest mistake can be fatal.

What am I supposed to do? I'm just going to look the Arctic Circle in the eye and

say, bring it on, mate.

Hello and welcome to the Alone Australia Season 4 reunion. I'm Kumi Taguchi and

tonight we are thawing out from our first ever Arctic season of Alone

Australia.

We are heading back into the sub-zero depths of Sápmi in the Arctic Circle, an

unfamiliar land in northern Finland that challenged our ten participants in ways

we have never seen before.

We are going to dissect it all with them tonight, from the majestic northern

lights to the brutal reality of the slow freeze.

This is the first time they've been in the same room together since boot camp.

Hi, everyone. It's so great to see you. Trent, congratulations.

52 days out alone in the Arctic.

Amazing achievement. Congratulations. I think that deserves a huge round of

applause.

Incredible achievement. How did it feel to learn that you were the last man

standing? Oh, Kumi, it was just the most amazing feeling. I mean...

Apart from the birth of your children, it's different because, you know, the

birth of your children, you know they're coming, where to me that was totally

unexpected. I felt that it was going to go a lot longer than what it did.

Oh, bullshit!

You're joking!

As you can see from my reaction, it's the best thing that in my life I've ever

achieved and probably ever will.

Well, as you know, over 52 days, these brave people self-documented their

survival. They shot thousands of hours of footage, which was condensed to 10

episodes. And that means we have got loads of unseen, exclusive footage to

unpack tonight.

Clint was the eighth person to tap out. Sadly, he couldn't be with us tonight.

But a huge congratulations to you at home in New Zealand, Clint.

It was alone Australia's toughest season yet with six taps, three medical

extractions and our first ever safety extraction.

The Arctic winter certainly took no prisoners.

Trent, you withstood the icy conditions the longest. You saw the land change

into full snow cover.

How much harder did things get for you when that weather started to

deteriorate? Everything just got harder.

I'd done the best I could to get prepared. Like, you see at the end how

much wood I had. So I believe that I prepared really well, apart from failing

on my fire a couple of times. But, yeah, you always feel you're underprepared.

You're not prepared enough. Even all the food that I had, I still felt like I

didn't have enough. Wow. I felt that in the first week. Yeah. Like, from day

dot, nothing I could do was going to be enough because it was like...

I'm an Aussie with a tarp.

Yeah. I think we launched at minus four wind chill, you know? And it was a rough

weather day when we went out there and that was just like, well, this is just

the beginning, you know? And you don't know when it's coming because you don't

have a calendar or an app telling you when the weather's doing what, you know?

You're just kind of winging it and hoping that it holds out while you get

yourself together.

The Arctic is such an extreme location.

How difficult was it when you got...

chilled to the bone and beyond i'm sure was it to warm up it took a lot of

effort to make sure you were warm all the time it's not as easy as just always

having a fire going like now always have a fire going is really really hard

because you've got to take a lot of trees to do that and that's a lot of

effort that's a lot of calories so you knew sometimes you just got to be cold

and you just had to accept it and that was not necessarily very comfortable And

the thing in those early weeks as well, it's just raining all the time and

everything's wet and nothing dries.

Your clothes are wet, your feet are wet, your gloves are wet, you're wet, your

sleeping bag's wet, and you just say, oh, I need to dry this, and it's such an

effort. The times I felt the coldest was when I was standing at the lake casting

and I was just getting blasted by the wind. It just felt like even with all

your layers, it just somehow got through.

It just chilled you to the bone.

We saw the daylight hours shortened really quickly.

did it get as that light started to dwindle?

You definitely feel the pressure a lot more. You know, you're not going to be

able to get as much fishing done each day. And then you've got to make sure

you're collecting enough firewood and boiling your water, collecting berries,

going out and foraging. You can't do it all in a single day.

And when you try and load too much on your plate, it gets a bit overwhelming.

I think that's something that people, it's hard to see as a viewer how busy

everyone is out there. Like, it's easy to go, oh, just do this, or why aren't

you doing this? And it's like, well, just getting the wood to cook.

is a massive job you know so you just want a sip of water it's like there's no

there's no kitchen tap you know you've got to go and like imagine you get up in

the morning like oh i want some breakfast and drink a water i cut a tree

down you know yeah that's the start of that process on the flip side jasper we

had this sort of vision of you with this childlike look on your face when you saw

snow for the first time what was that like that was it was magical yeah I

smiled just thinking about it. Yeah. Yeah, it was really beautiful. And I

think because it was such a challenging experience, it was really cool to kind

of feel that wonder and appreciation for the land as well and, like, to be able

to have the gruel and the slog and push through and then also just the step back

and just wow moments as well, I guess really balanced it out. Yeah.

The ice and low temperatures of the Arctic Circle put a freeze on our

participants' plans to sustain themselves, which made this season one

of the hardest and most extreme yet.

To stay alive, they had to adapt incredibly quickly and do whatever they

could to find food. And I really do mean whatever it took.

Guys, I invented a lure.

For these shiny bird boys, I'm going to make lures out of them.

Pike persuasion to be specific.

No!

No, I'm snagged.

I tried the spot where I caught those two pikes the other day.

Oh, this is a good fish. I need this lad.

I am shitting my pants.

Yes! A pike!

I tell you what, it's a bit bigger than his crack-eared brother.

I'm just foraging some cranberries.

Hard-working girl over here.

I've got one of these V-shaped, and with a piece of this junk that I found from

the shoreline, I can kind of, like, make a sling.

Grab the lure, and then fin flying, boom.

I really want these things to work.

Another day, another blueberry soup.

I'm dirty.

You know what I haven't thought of trying to bait?

A bit of foot callus.

Look at that frigging slug.

Oh, that's going to stay on the hook like crazy good.

Got it.

Gee, the fish are up and about this morning.

Now I'm going to make a smoker.

Get some food preserved.

So the basic plan with these is I'm going to air dry them. It's pretty windy

sometimes. It's actually going pretty good.

Got a big old sack of mushrooms already.

So I'm going to build a really good smoke rack. I might just use paracord

twine or something and do like a mesh.

Look at that. Fire in the shelter.

Pretty safe with the hood vent.

That is a good setup.

It's honestly like kind of delicious.

Well, we're at work as a chef. We do a lot of cook chill. So what I'm going to

do with these berries is I'm going to heat them up to boiling point.

Lay out this.

A bit of plastic. I'm going to lay it out in a bit of a hole.

Hopefully it doesn't melt the plastic.

Once I've cooked all the berries and they're in the plastic, grab all these

ends, wrap them up like a Christmas pudding and tie it at the top so nothing

can get out.

All right, let's go and lay it in the river and the running water will chill

it down.

And then hopefully that should last at least 14 days wrapped up in that bag.

All right, let's see how our berries are.

Bit of cooked chill berries in the Arctic Circle, eh?

Mmm. Actually tastes like a jam that doesn't have quite enough sugar in it.

Actually, nice.

Jasper, don't take this the wrong way, but I don't think I want to go fishing

with you.

It was really hard watching that footage of you using your kind of dried skin.

As bait, did anyone else kind of feel ill watching it? I gagged.

It's actually like an Amazonian technique, like native crew over there.

You've got bait on your foot, might as well use it.

You know, like, and it's dead skin, so no pain there at all.

And bait was super hard to find out there, so I figured, why not?

What did your mum think of your fishing technique?

Honestly... Probably not even that surprised.

She's like, yeah, this is the Jaffa Rhino. Yeah.

Elise, you had your really unique strategy of using your brightly coloured

hair, your metallic pants for lures. Yes.

Have you tried these out before?

Admittedly, not the undies. I remember seeing you kind of flip your hair and

show the bright green and thinking, oh, my God, that is actually such a smart

strategy to use parts of your body that you already have to take in something

that you might be able to use.

Yeah, I thought it was like a cheeky 11th item. And I've actually still got a

little bit of blonde from when they coloured it.

And you're wearing a T-shirt today. I believe you've got a story around that.

Yeah, this says Yvette.

This is my late mother's name. And it was her 10-year anniversary of her

passing out on the land. So my whole journey was dedicated to her. We both

discovered our love of the outdoors later in life. And for her,

unfortunately, it was right towards the end. And yeah, so ever since her

passing, I've been doing these adventures, not just for myself, but for

her as well, in her memory.

Lillian, fish really was the key to surviving this season. How frustrating

was it when you put all that effort in and you just don't get any fish?

It was so frustrating.

I feel like you use so much of your mental capacity to just focus on that. I

spent hours and days just dedicated to fishing different places, walking up and

down the bank, going at night, going at day. Most of my brain was consumed on

trying to fish.

So it was super frustrating.

And sometimes I could feel the camera just like burning at me, like watching

me fail. And I'm like, stop looking at me right now. Like, I know.

Don't remind me.

Trent,

you on the other hand, 44 fish.

Were you fishing all the time or did you just have good luck?

My strategy when I went out there was food.

I've been a big fan of the show for a long time, and I've never really seen

anyone leave because their shelter's not quite up to scratch or anything like

that. So from day one, priority for me was food, and I was fortunate to find

the baitfish. But, I mean, a lot of people don't probably know that I caught

a lot more of my fish on lures than what I did the baitfish. I mean, I was so

fortunate that I found it. But after a few days, that was gone.

But, yeah, I was just sitting there making lures for hours and hours and

hours. Fishing at the right times, fishing after a little bit of rain or

anything like that, I just prioritised as much fishing as I possibly could.

And 44 fish is a series record. It's incredible.

Congratulations. It's amazing. Well, yeah, 44 fish is amazing.

Like, they were size fish as well. Like, I would have let 30 fish go that were

undersized. Yeah, I was very fortunate out there, unlike these guys.

Arash, what was your main food source?

Berries, mushrooms, and I had a bucket plant, reindeer skin, and I was

even thinking for the worst days to come, I had my boots, leather boots.

When you say reindeer skin, you mean the skin that was keeping you warm, you were

prepared to sort of eat that, boil it?

Yes, I was actually making fire with that, and it's one of the best.

fire thing that you can have. I was just taking one pinch out of the four, one

strike, fire is on. That's it. Nice and easy.

And then I was thinking later on to boil it and cook it.

Dougie, are you still a fan of mushrooms?

Well, I like mushrooms, but I've only ever tried it once off the shore and I

got a full breakfast and I didn't even think about the mushrooms and I just put

them on my plate at work and then I sat down.

And I looked at the mushrooms, and it just put me off the whole plate, and I

had to put it back. I just can't eat them.

Can't do it. Can't eat them.

Just like a big snot. But Jasper was saying his mushrooms were in the same

conditions as Dougie's.

Jasper, you're just wild.

Very mushy and, like, mucilaginous.

Runk. Just runk.

I was quite jealous of all your mushrooms because I thought I was going

to go out there and we'll fight.

like forest full of mushroom berries and I only found like probably six to eight

in the during the 28 days I was there.

Dougie and Dylan you both started making canoes at a kind of similar time which

was quite extraordinary and I was like oh my god what a great idea.

Did you go in thinking that's something you would have to do and then plan to

have a tarp with you for that?

I yeah I specifically brought the tarp for in case I had to build a boat. I

didn't want to have to build a boat.

But in the end, I'm really glad that I did because it was just such a great,

fun experience as well.

I'd never built a kayak like that before.

So I didn't really know a lot about what I was doing. I was just making it up as

I went.

Dougie, for you, was the tarp part of the original plan?

Yeah, yeah. What he said basically, Ham, I just sort of winged it hard.

I built it using absolutely no knowledge whatsoever.

And I was quite surprised how it came out, which was good.

But it was very scary when you were launching it and stuff like that. You

just, it's like, oh my God, I'm going in that drink.

I am shitting myself to death here.

Alone is one of the toughest competitions on television globally.

Participants must survive purely off the land. Add in the harsh, fierce winter of

the Arctic Circle and it's no wonder a few of our cast were extracted under

doctor's orders.

Sia, in the end, it was the brutal cold that took you out. You'd had frostbite

before. How far were you willing to take things out there?

Um...

I don't want to admit it, but when I discovered there was a frostbite and I

looked down, in my mind, I just kind of thought I could lose that. I can

sacrifice that toe. I don't need that toe. If the camera wasn't there, I

probably would have cut that toe off. Wow. I was willing to go that far, but I

did make a promise to my girls that I was going to come back with all my body

parts.

Would have been a good bait.

Yes, it would have been good on that fire.

Well, put on a fire if I didn't have a camera there.

Start eating toes.

Jasper, on day 48, you were medically extracted.

Was it bittersweet knowing just how close you came to the end?

You know, a bit of everything going on there. Like, I think, like I said...

On that day of the extraction, it was a feeling of peace going because I'd

pushed myself so hard for quite a while at that point. And I think that morning

I could feel the pulsing infection going up my wrist and into my arm. And I knew

that was, like, potential for sepsis, the infection spreading through my blood

system. So I think I kind of accepted that, like, this is where my journey

ends and I was grateful for all that I'd learned out there.

All right, don't go tapping out on us, Australia. Next, we're going full grand

designs as we take a closer look at their incredible shelters.

Stick around. We'll see you after the break.

Welcome back to the Alone Season 4 reunion.

In the Arctic, a shelter isn't just somewhere to sleep.

It can be the difference between staying in the game and being forced to tap out.

This season, there were some serious creative shelters out there. This is

Arctic Grand Designs.

Need a shelter that's warm and sturdy for the Arctic winter?

Well, look no further than Elise's poxy builds.

Elise's poxy builds.

We use nothing but the latest and finest materials and techniques to keep your

shelter dirty for the Arctic.

I'm going to set up my emergency shelter with this rock. I mean, this rock is

going to protect me from so much wind.

It's so cosy.

My biggest priority was just getting a permanent shelter.

Do you see this behind me?

I made this.

I did.

A safe, secure shelter with a fireplace inside.

That's my number one priority.

I've finished the roof. You see, it comes with a bit of angle as well. And

this is on the other side.

That's my fireplace.

And I'm nice and warm.

Might not be the most good-looking shelter, but I'm proud I built it.

Big one!

Keeps me dry and keeps me warm.

I'm happy with that.

I'm doing like a Dakota fire pit rocket stove style air channel that's going to

flow in from the outside.

What a cool home.

I'm thinking of calling it a man den.

Like a man den.

You hear people say, if your shed is too big, it's too hard to heat. But the gear

that I've got, I'm not sure it can be that much smaller.

Really?

Amazing being able to stand up in your shelter.

I'm going to make a teepee.

This is my new bed.

It means I can have a fire inside without having a crazy fireplace set up.

I'm over the moon with that.

Give you an idea about what my shelter's going to look like.

You can see here I've got a little floor plan set out.

It's going to be cosy, a bit of a space.

It's enough room for a fireplace and a bed.

Not much else, but I need to make sure that I can stay warm, and the less space

that I have to heat, the better.

Come on in.

So here's my fireplace.

That means that I can get warm whenever I want, I can boil water whenever I

want, and I can cook food whenever I want.

I know I've spent a lot of time mucking around with this shelter, but I think

it's well worth it in this environment.

Isn't this fireplace a ripper?

These really were some of the most impressive shelter builds we have ever

seen. Clint's Guts Ache Inn was a fan favourite.

Okay, be honest, guys. Did any of you have shelter envy?

Oh, yeah.

I'd love two nights at Guts Ache Inn for sure.

And Dylan's. Yeah, Dylan's was good too.

Yeah, Dylan's. Yours was good.

I still would have traded it for Clint, though.

Oh, really?

He just looked like he put so much effort into the craftsmanship and it

looked immaculate.

I definitely would have traded it if I didn't have to build it. You know what I

mean? Because leaving Clint would have taken so much time and so many calories.

And something you've got to think about out there, as Dylan would know, to build

an amazing shelter and stay as long as he did without any protein. I mean,

that's a huge effort.

I love jaspers.

It looks so cosy. You can go in there and I really liked it.

I like how it just looked like a bush.

It was great.

Misty, what would you build a second time round if you had the chance?

Oh, gosh.

I don't know. I think I'd just slow down.

I think for me, like, the second I got out there, I think that drop shock

kicked in and the impending doom of, like, what was coming.

And, like, after witnessing the time lapse of the season change, I'm like,

man, I would have had so much time to actually make plans and do it properly.

But I was just in this fight or flight response of, like...

This impending doom is coming. The suffering is coming. And if I don't get

my stuff together, this tarp is going to kill me.

Lillian, you had an outdoor living space underneath a boulder.

Did having that secondary space make life easier for you?

Yeah, definitely. When I first went on land, I had that emergency shelter that

was in a cave.

Well, it wasn't really a cave. It was kind of this little nook inside a rock

that I found.

And I felt really comfortable and cosy there, but it didn't really feel homely.

And I always wanted to make a shelter that was a bit smaller, that just kept

me warm. I never really intended to have a fire in there. I wanted to have a

space outside with a fire just because I knew that I didn't want to burn so many

calories building a shelter.

So when I found that rock, I thought it was a perfect spot.

When you have the fire and it reflects off the rock, then you can stay warm. It

kind of almost had a bit of an angle, so if it were to snow or rain, it would

protect me in the fire as well.

Arash, you also used existing boulders as part of your shelter. What was your

thinking behind that?

I was trying to use as much as what was available, natural resources.

So I saw this big rock and straight away I was like, OK, so that's one wall. I

don't have to do anything.

And then I saw this angle, weird angle, like triangle shape. The trees were nice

and straight. So I was like, OK, if I use these trees, I don't have to use my

pyroclor to tie up all these lots that I have to put.

How happy were you with it at the end of the build?

It was super comfortable. Closing the door, make some fire. I was just

sleeping, night time like a baby.

Sia, you hauled so many rocks to build your fireplace.

Was the energy that you expended worth it?

100%. It wasn't just for the cooking.

Just to have that fireplace going, it just brings so much hope, I guess.

And having a fireplace and seeing something burning, you feel safe

and you feel like home. I think that was important to me.

Trent, keeping warm became such an issue for you.

Have you worked out how to build a fireplace yet? Well, yeah, I certainly

struggled with it out there, but I knew that watching me...

had to be higher. But for me to get another 30 rocks, I was carrying about

three rocks and I was having to walk 250 metres to get them and 250 metres back.

So if I needed another 30, I mean, I was walking, what's that, five kilometres

all up to get 30 rocks. And I wasn't really prepared to do that.

I mean, I've seen people in past series in the Arctic Circle choose to not have

a fire in their shelter at all. So I knew it could be done. So I was like, it

is what it is.

Dylan, you built a home, really. It was so beautiful. What was your thinking

behind it?

I had two thoughts going through my head. I promised Jem that I wouldn't get

hypothermia, so I was like, OK, I've got to build something that's nice and warm,

even if, you know, things get hard.

And the second thing was like, oh, I'd really love to build, like, a cubby in

the bush with Jensen. What would he love about this? So I kind of built a shelter

that looked like a picture out of one of his storybooks back home. So, like...

Every time we read the story now, he can see that both on the TV but also in his

little storybook we read at night.

Yeah, and his dad built that thing on the TV.

I just think you all did so well. It was incredible watching your shelters and

watching you build them. You should be super proud of what you've done.

Still to come, we talk to Arash about his safety extraction.

Stay with us.

Welcome back to the Alone Australia Season 4 reunion.

If this season proved anything, it's that Alone remains one of the toughest

and most unforgiving challenges on or off our screens.

But more than ever, this really was a series where the psychological game had

a massive impact on our participants.

I've always watched Alone. I see fully grown men that seem like pretty hard

nuts and they're bawling their eyes out.

And I've even said to my wife, why would you go in there and crawl like that?

Like, it's kind of embarrassing yourself.

Now I'll look at those guys differently and I apologise to those guys for

thinking about that because, I mean, you don't know what people are going through

until you're out here doing it. And, yeah, it definitely has an effect on you

and I've never seen it coming, to be honest.

What if I don't catch any fish today or tomorrow or the next day or the next

day? Like, how much failure can I take?

A lot of negative thoughts and feelings are

coming up every day.

I never got panic attacks until I came here.

Holy shit, holy shit. I caught a fish, but it's a trout.

It's a freaking trout.

These have to be 50 centimetres.

Here we go.

Releasing a good meal.

Brutal.

I've really got to finish the moth insulation on the front.

You know, I put a lot of work into that.

No, it's going to fall.

I hate my shelter. I hate it.

Back. Start playing up a bit.

Oh, man.

I am just struggling.

with some stuff.

Because I was never away from Jensen for more than a week.

He's going to be saying all sorts of words that I haven't heard him say.

He's going to be doing all sorts of cool shit that I'm missing out on. At the

moment, I'm definitely too weak to go out and look for more mushrooms.

I still haven't seen one fish in the water.

It might be too late for me if I don't get any protein on the fish.

I think my days here are counted.

I've found the last few days that I feel a lot more emotional.

Snap me line.

No!

Idiot!

I've had a few tough days, but, yeah, this is tough.

I fell for you there, bro, when you lost that fish.

It was heavy.

It was tough to watch how hard it was out there. Those highs and lows must

have been so extreme.

Trent, you won, but you weren't immune from having a bad day.

Just how hard was it?

Yeah, I mean, I had some bad days. I mean, a lot of them didn't make airlock.

I slipped my gumboots, had to rebuild my shelter.

You know, it wasn't about losing that fish in that last clip that we've seen

that was...

It was annoying. It was the lure.

The littlest things out in normal life, if they happen to you while you're on

the land, it's the biggest thing.

And if you make a mistake, you only have yourself to blame. You know, you can't

blame someone else. You can't blame the tools. You can't blame, you know, you

feel like you did it. There's nothing else but you and what you're doing. And

that can be a bummer sometimes.

Lillian, having that panic attack on your own for the first time out there

must have been so awful, so scary.

How hard has it been watching yourself back?

For me, it's definitely a tough watch.

I just felt kind of, yeah, upset a little bit watching, you know, what I

was going through, what I felt like.

Yeah, it was really hard. I never even crossed my mind that it was a panic

attack because I'd never had one. So I didn't really think, I just thought that

that's just an anxious feeling that I've had.

It only started getting a little bit worrying when I started feeling like

quite lightheaded.

And during my time, I was very open to the camera and open to myself about how

I was feeling. And by doing that, it kind of helped me figure out that maybe

I'm doing more.

bad than good being out there still mentally and i think we come from a

world where there's this mentality to push on past that when you when there's

something intuitively telling you that you are not okay yeah and i think for me

and lillian we had a very similar experience where i think choosing that

it's okay for us not to be okay regardless of this experience

Lillian, how are you going now?

I feel amazing.

Honestly, I felt like I had an exorcism out there. I felt... That's kind of the

best way to put it. That's really great to hear, Lillian.

Dylan, it was really hard watching you cry when you were thinking about missing

your son.

Just talk us through that.

I'd never really been away from my son more than about a week before going out

on the land, and it... I knew it was going to be hard leaving and being out

there away from him.

I just didn't realise that I'd be thinking about him at just about every

moment.

So it did hit me a bit hard.

What was it like when you saw him for the first time after this experience?

Oh, it was crazy.

I left and he was starting to say dad.

Wow.

He was talking in sentences and I didn't think it had happened that fast.

Wow. So you feel like there was stuff you missed?

Yeah, I definitely feel like there's stuff I missed.

You've got this kind of pretty cool thing to show him when he's a bit older

to say this is where Dad was for a while.

Yeah, I've got something to show him when he's a bit older and he can

understand kind of what it was all about.

He likes seeing Dad on TV.

He is so much more interested in garbage trucks and dump trucks at the moment.

Understandably.

This season, we saw the first ever safety extraction on any series around

the world.

Med check.

Hello?

Arash?

Not home.

Where is he? His sat phone's here. All his safety equipment's here.

Arash? The doc?

Arash? He's missing.

Yeah, I'm worried now.

I'm going to call it in. Yeah, call it in.

Arash? Arash!

Arash! I know you've all been talking about it, so let's hear what happened.

Arash, why did you decide to leave your camp without any of your safety

equipment?

The intention was never to leave my safety equipment and just abandon the

shelter.

However, I just wanted to explore, have some time for myself and just did my

recording, left it.

and then went for a walk because all I was thinking was about myself.

I was like, okay, I've got the best navigation skill.

I don't need GPS. I don't need that for nothing.

I can just run back and forth the whole country and find my place back.

So that's the mentality that I had. But what I forgot was the people who are

responsible for Alone Australia, the destruction team, all the safety team.

So I...

I personally neglected that part.

It didn't come into my mind. I wasn't thinking straight at the moment.

I didn't want to make it hard for anyone, even though it was the hardest

thing for myself to accept, to make a mistake like that. But at the end, I

thought about it and then I said, well, you made a mistake.

You should accept it and respect the decision.

Where did you go?

I was just... Outside, exploring those lakes and just foraging some berries,

mushrooms. There were a lot of theories going around. The most popular one was

that you had eaten a reindeer.

Why do you think everyone thought that?

Well, maybe because I made a joke about those reindeers.

They were coming and eating the berry leaves and smashing, squashing all those

berries. And I was like, oh, come on.

and I just made a joke. I said, well, if you were allowed, I wouldn't mind to

kill at least 10 of them, make a shop here, sell some reindeers.

That's not what happened.

We're not allowed to hunt these reindeers because those reindeers belong

to the Sami people and we had great respect for Sami people.

I'm sure, I'm speaking for probably everyone here, that we probably all

thought about eating reindeer out there. Oh, yeah. You're hungry and they're

walking around and... They're delicious.

It's like a slow-moving meal, just walking past you.

Adventure is in my DNA, OK?

I like sometimes, you know, to just be more myself and do the things that is

maybe just out of the rules or boundaries or safety things.

It's a funny situation to be in with all the stresses of everything out there.

Every now and again, you just need a little bit of your own time of thought.

Make sense.

Probably couldn't say this, but to remove your mic,

your GPS, and just sit on the water for two minutes, it just helps you a little

bit, you know? You know, just to step away from just the stresses and the

madness of just being filmed and watched all the time, if that makes sense.

Well, it's because it's tough.

I mean, I don't know about you guys, but me, I totally underestimated the filming

of it.

And, I mean, I was lucky enough to have food, but for some of you guys, like,

you're using up so many more calories and so much more effort to try and film

yourself as well. So there does come a point, like Arash, where you just want a

break. I'd be surprised if, at some stage, every one of us didn't kind of

think about doing that.

Well, Arash, we're so glad that you're safe and sound, and we've also managed

to quash all those rumours that you didn't eat a reindeer, so it's all good.

It's time for another break, so don't even think about picking up your sat

phones. We've got loads more exclusives and unseen surprises coming your way.

See you right after this.

Welcome back. One of my favourite parts of watching alone is seeing the

incredible ingenuity and creativity unfold.

I found it so inspiring to see just what our participants were able to come up

with out there in the Arctic.

When I do number one, obviously I just shake.

Shake it, shake it, shake it. But when I do number two, what does she use as

toilet paper?

Sticks!

I learned the hard way. You want it to be smooth.

Step one, scrape the worst bits off.

And you bury it. And then I cut some bits of my T-shirt. I wipe myself with

it and then I'm washing those cloths up.

I want to try and make some snowshoes because sooner or later there's going to

be a big drop of snow here.

I don't know what it's going to be like to get around.

I'm going to walk a bit like a constipated duck.

Because I have an injured back, I need to take good care of it.

Underneath this frame is compressed pine needles that are contoured to the

shape of my back.

Uncompressed, it was almost to the ceiling, so it's like solid. There's

room for two, if you don't mind snuggling and sharing a bit of body

heat. I'm doing this because there's mozzies all around here.

I remember reading that there's this thing called Labrador tea.

Other name is wild rosemary.

And I'm going to rub it on this hand.

It is apparently a good insect repellent.

Oh, boy.

The Labrador teawork.

Had a mozzie hovering around my hand and it landed and it didn't bite me.

I'm just going to see if I can move some rocks there to make a little bit of a

rock jetty to get me out an extra three or four metres.

Could be the difference between catching a fish and not catching a fish.

I think I'm discovering the kind of a loner I am, and it projects a loner.

And I like doing that sort of stuff.

Not really much of an energy expenditure to be carving a spoon or something.

I've graduated past teaspoon into, like, spoon territory here.

The mozzies in my tent have been driving me absolutely insane.

I've got a horse's hoof fungus.

Can you see the outside layer there? What this is good for is smouldering.

I'm going to put this in my tent, smouldering.

to try and get rid of their mozzies because they're just living in there,

just loving life.

It worked. It worked.

I cannot give that thing enough credit.

Sia, I just want to know, how on earth did you come up with the poo stick idea?

It's not my invention, to be honest.

In Thailand, I grew up, we didn't have toilet paper.

It was the thing that you actually scrape your poo off.

with a stick however being out there for so long you're so constipated like i

barely need to do anything like it was just like clean snap it was like giving

birth again out there just try to like squeeze something out

And you look down, you're sweating, you're screaming, and you look down, and

it's like tiny little blueberry-sized.

So, no, I didn't have to use that stick too often, to be honest.

I think we all have a lot of poo trauma.

I don't know about you guys, but I planned for what I would be using. I

brought, like, extra, extra large briefs, and I was like, this is going to

be cut up as my face cloth and as my toilet paper. Not the same bit, but

definitely separate bits, yeah, for sure.

Dylan? Everyone gasps when they saw you kind of compressing your mattress.

How long did it take you to do that?

Oh, it was a process that actually took a couple of days. And while I was doing

this, I was like, oh, this is just stupid.

It's not even going to work. But I'm so glad I did because afterwards, great

comfy bed that I could sleep in. You were out there for a real purpose. That

was a win for your family.

How is everyone?

Yeah, as soon as...

i got back to australia jemma and i decided okay look i didn't bring home

the money but we're going to give it our best shot we're going to go all out and

just do everything that we possibly can so we tried the new therapies um along

with the ibf and it was really challenging it took a lot of money

but yeah uh jensen's gonna be a big brother

Fantastic news.

Did you ever think you'd be sort of looking at a scan of a second child?

I just, yeah.

It's the same as being out there. Sometimes it's a rollercoaster of hope

and grief, and it gets really hard, and sometimes you think, oh, it's just never

going to happen. What are we doing? Why are we trying?

And then it's just a miracle like this happens, and it's just the most amazing

thing. Trent, you looked a bit sort of shocked there at the news. What's going

through your mind?

Oh, I'm just so happy for him and Jim. Like, you know, I haven't known Dylan

that long, but he's literally someone who's been in our Defence Force and

someone that, you know, hopefully...

None of us ever have to rely on him, but, you know, you get lost or

something, he's the guy that's out there looking for you. We all say he looks

like Clark Kent, he's our Superman, but he truly, this bloke is actually a

superhero outside of this experience.

Like, everyone on this whole cast, you're all incredible beings, and I

think from going forward with this, none of us are walking out of here alone.

You know, we have created a bond and a family amongst this crew this season.

And we're in it with each other's experiences and lives from here on out,

I reckon.

I'm going to annoy you anyway.

Dylan, we are just so happy for you. So congratulations to you. Your family of

three soon to be four. It's just honestly the best news.

Well done. A huge congratulations, too, to our man of the hour, Trent, after 52

extraordinary days.

you trent were the last man standing

oh

you're joking oh my god

oh my god we did it you

did it

Give me a look at you.

Oh, I love you so much.

Are you okay?

Oh, I'm fine.

I'm fine.

I thought this was going to go away.

I was sitting there thinking I can't wait until the day him comes and taps me

on the shoulder. And you just come and tap me on the shoulder.

Oh, I'm not ready to go home.

Do you want to stay in the shelter with me for one night?

Can I take a look at my shelter now?

Can I lock her in there?

Let me show you my berries. I was eating my berries before. I was like, oh, I'd

so love to eat these on toast. I'm carrying them out with me. I'm having

them on toast tonight.

You know, I've said it heaps of times. There's nothing special about me.

You know, but I'm here.

Trent from Tassie.

I've just changed my family's life forever.

Has it actually sunk in yet?

I mean, yeah, it has now, but I was a bit funny for a few days

after. Like, going on there, I obviously want to set an example for the kids and

I wanted to see where my breaking point was.

And I didn't get to that point.

And although I was so happy there, I felt like I didn't deserve to win.

And it's weird because it's like, mate, you should be the happiest person in the

world. And I was so grateful that I'd won.

I felt like I just lived an adventure that I was so grateful to even be a

part of.

And I felt like...

I didn't go through enough pain to warrant Emma tapping

me on the shoulder and to be given 250 grand. Because, I mean, up until that

point, I hadn't thought about tapping out once.

What was it like when Emma tapped you on the shoulder? And actually, I couldn't

believe that you could lift her up as well. I'm like, where have you got the

strength from?

It was unexpected, but it's the best feeling that I've ever experienced.

In my life. And I know how much it meant to her.

And I thought about it every day I was out there.

Like, you always feel like you're not prepared enough.

And I was thinking, jeez, I've just got to do more. I've got to do more. Like,

Em has to come out here.

I want to share this experience with her.

And, I mean, that's something that I'll cherish forever. And it's something that

my kids can watch when, you know, I'm not even here anymore.

Wow.

What does this win and the money mean for you and your family?

Oh, it changes our lives forever. Like, I'm just a normal dad that works.

Like most parents of Australia, you try and give your kids, you know, a good

life and probably try and give them things that you didn't get as a kid.

This will just, you know, give us that freedom a bit with our mortgage and that

kind of stuff.

that if I want to take a day off work and take my young fella fishing or

something like that, I don't feel guilty about doing those kind of things.

He keeps saying he's just a normal bloke, and he's not. He's an awesome

bloke. He's a very special man, and he's so worthy of this win.

Absolutely. You're doing nothing wrong. You're doing everything bang on,

everything perfect, and it was just sick to watch.

100%. You deserved it, man. You worked your arse off out there.

You worked your ass off for over 50 days away from your family that entire time.

You absolutely deserved it. Thanks, mate.

Like Misty said before, it's like we're a family now. Look, we all understand

each other and we all know what the experience is like.

And I've said to these guys, if any of them ever come to Tassie and don't ring

me, at least to call in for a coffee or come and stay.

Yeah, I won't be very happy about it.

Trent, congratulations to you again. Season four winner of Alone Australia,

52 days on the land, super cold, a record-breaking 44 fish caught and $250

,000 in the bank. Congratulations, Trent.

Thank you.

And thank you to all our participants and thank you so much for watching at

home and being so engaged and enthusiastic. We will be back for Season

5 and guess what?

This time we're going to be heading to a new location in the Arctic. We're going

deeper, colder and wilder into a winter like we've never seen before.

I'm Kumi Taguchi. It's time to tap out. Good night.