Season 2 of Alone Australia premieres subsequent week on SBS.
10 extra Australians will face punishing situations in icy situations in New Zealand armed with the barest of provides and remoted from each other. There aren’t any digital camera crews with contributors required to doc their very own expertise.
The final particular person standing wins $250,000.
Along with its signature ‘factoids’ that provide technical, historic, or scientific insights, this season affords cultural information of Māori practices, specializing in the traditions, language and beliefs of Ngāi Tahu, the iwi, or tribe of the native space.
A+E Media Group VP, Unscripted Worldwide Co-Productions Ninder Billing stated: “Wherever A+E has premiered Alone all over the world, it has resonated with audiences throughout vastly completely different cultures as a result of it’s a very one-of-a-kind format that’s the final take a look at of human resilience. We’re thrilled to observe up the record-breaking success of Alone Australia Season 1 with such a robust second season set within the difficult and visually beautiful New Zealand terrain, with a brand new solid of dynamic characters who showcase our relationship with the sweetness and hazard of the pure surroundings.”
Andreas, 42 Private Coach & Subsistence Hunter, NSW “I’m assured my physique can deal with this. I’ve examined myself previously, however there’s an enormous distinction between holding your breath for 4 minutes versus staying out within the bush for 3 months…” A Swedish-Australian subsistence hunter who enjoys mountain-biking on weekends, Andreas works full time as an elite private coach. For a former mannequin residing the inner-city life, it could shock most to find that Andreas provides over 90% of the protein he and his accomplice eat via wild looking and fishing. He butchers, processes and shops all components of the animals he procures for his family’s meals provide. Whereas a youth spent in Sweden honed his outside and fishing abilities, Andreas’ looking experience was acquired after transferring to Australia. He shortly determined that bow looking was his most well-liked technique and has since spent years dedicating himself to changing into an informed and expert moral hunter. Having grown up in Sweden, he’s no stranger to chilly climate, however the punishing rain and humidity of a chilly rainforest surroundings goes to current a complete new problem.
Chace, 27 Defence Drive Fight Engineer, QLD “Being Alone is a dream come true. Rising up, I didn’t watch ‘Bob the Builder’… I’d be out making an attempt to hunt grandpa’s rabbits. I’ve actually been looking my entire life and I’ve been open air since earlier than I can keep in mind.”
Chace’s bushcraft and survival skillset comes as an amalgamation of experiential abilities from outside adventures on the land with household and skilled abilities obtained from instruction and follow via the navy. As a fight engineer, exploring and surveying unknown environments for strategic evaluation are all a part of Chace’s common day by day exercise, additional contributing to his skill to assume tactically and pivot shortly – essential abilities for adapting to the international land he’s about to be dropped into. Chace is a succesful and practised huge recreation hunter who’s assured about his skill to maintain himself via this expertise. He learnt to hunt with a recurve bow early and he efficiently hunts each huge and small recreation. This baby-faced reconnaissance soldier is the youngest of the solid. He’ll miss his canine and his accomplice Amy.
Jack, 55 Tradesman & Wild Recreation Hunter, NSW “I hunt and fish to feed my household. I’ve been requested if I’m afraid of being out within the bush alone with all of the scary issues on the market… My reply? I’m the scary factor.”
A faithful dad with two grown daughters who’re each just lately unbiased, Jack can now lastly, say sure to an enormous solo journey with peace of thoughts… and he’s wanting ahead to the chance to participate in what he considers the final word take a look at of a lifetime’s value of abilities. A Chilean-Australian self-employed tradesman, Jack has a variety of transferable tips from his workcraft that he’s hoping to place to the take a look at as he improvises and innovates out within the wild. Jack has been looking and fishing alone since his household first moved to Australia when he was a baby, however in recent times, he hasn’t executed so with out his trusty mate; Lea, his German short-haired pointer.Jack enjoys pictures and videography, so he’s very a lot wanting ahead to digital camera time, however stays targeted on this as being a once-in-a-lifetime alternative to immerse himself completely and uninterruptedly into the expertise of residing wild in a distant wilderness.
Jason, 36 Youth Employee and Jungai, NSW “I’m an adventurous spirit. There’s no room to cover in a problem like this; the one particular person accountable is your self if one thing goes incorrect. That is the final word problem a human can expertise.”
Jason is a strongly related and revered neighborhood chief. A youth employee, former rugby participant and coach, he’s spent his complete grownup life immersed in energy, assist and resilience work – affording him some key foundational instruments for the emotional and psychological problem the Alone expertise can typically current. Jason grew up tenting, looking and fishing often together with his dad from as early as he can keep in mind. Early maturity noticed him join with household and neighborhood on his mom’s nation of Borroloola the place he spends time studying from Elders and members of the family and training conventional strategies of looking, fishing and foraging. A proud Yanyuwa, Waanyi/Garawa man and Jungai, Jason hunts utilizing a variety of each trendy and conventional looking strategies and gear. At the moment settled in regional NSW together with his spouse and much-loved canine, Jason has lived throughout Australia in regional and rural areas starting from the recent, crimson filth deserts of the Northern Territory to the chilly alpine highlands of Tasmania. The remoted wilds of Te Waipounamu, Aotearoa are about to place him to a complete new take a look at.
Krzystof, 39 Aquaculturalist, VIC “My strongest trait goes to be my stubbornness: I’m going to sit down within the chilly, I’m going to sit down within the rain, I’m going to push via this. I’m going to attend till my cherished one faucets me on the shoulder and tells me I’ve received.”
This Polish-Australian aquaculturalist is a jack of all trades – and grasp of fairly a couple of. Raised in a Polish refugee household with a wealthy historical past of rebel and resilience in his genes, Krzysztof has all the time loved considering exterior of the field and cultivating area of interest pursuits, like stone, metallic and leatherwork in addition to medieval fight. Krzysztof lives together with his accomplice in a house that’s largely self-sufficient; achieved via a collection of first-try DIY initiatives, every nicely researched, studied after which executed. This project-obsessed mild big is raring to flex his crafting abilities, his understanding of fish behaviour in addition to his recurve bow looking talents.
Leanne, 41 World Heritage Aboriginal Packages Officer, VIC “I’ve spent my entire life going out bush. Rising up on Nation you be taught to be self-reliant. Studying to learn Nation, animals and the best way they transfer helps you hunt them. I do know a bit… and utilizing all of that may get me via this.”
Leanne’s love of the bush is a direct results of an upbringing spent largely in Barkandji follow residing on Nation and fishing and foraging with household. A proud Barkandji girl who works as a World Heritage Aboriginal Officer, she is keen about her work and her neighborhood, preserving tradition and artefacts and documenting archaeology and historical past. A lady whose id and actions have been occupied by motherhood for greater than a decade now, Leanne needs this chance to check and reconnect with herself and to search out readability about what’s vital and what lies forward for her. She says, “that is my time to exit, discover, journey and in a approach… discover myself once more.” She makes no apology for having the prize cash in her sights. Successful means a possibility to purchase land on her conventional Nation. Leanne’s outside abilities have been examined on dry, open, crimson filth bush. The wild west of Aotearoa’s South Island is about to check her mettle for the precise reverse: a moist, dense and darkish rainforest.
Mike, 60 Resilience Coach, NSW “I’m actually assured I’ve acquired what it takes to win. The power to deal with ache and discomfort is my superpower. Testing myself and discovering my limits is all a part of resilience coaching and I dwell a life the place I follow what I preach.”
The eldest of the solid, this former Waratahs participant and rugby union coach turned his later focus to outside resilience teaching and psychological toughness programming; operating coaching workshops for boys, males and elite sporting groups. A deer hunter residing and dealing in a regional coastal city, this father of three grownup kids seems ahead to placing his thoughts, physique and abilities to the take a look at within the final psychological and bodily problem. Over the past 30 years, he has taken common ‘reconnection time’ to immerse himself in nature and dwell self-sustainably off the land. Mike is at residence within the open air and assured that his bow and arrow abilities, coupled together with his fishing abilities will hold him well-nourished. He sees his best energy as his cussed tenacity and a resilience cast from a life’s record of combined expertise with traumas and triumphs. Successful, for Mike, can be an affirmation of what he does for a residing, and he would like to make his kids proud.
Rick, 58 Survival Educator & Former SAS Soldier, QLD “I’ve a aim of doing epic stuff in my life yearly. I’ll have a couple of years below my belt, however relating to a dedication to maintain pushing boundaries, I’m simply getting began. This would be the final alternative to place expertise and information to the take a look at!”
A grasp of survival, Rick is aware of higher than most what it’s prefer to be in a tricky state of affairs. After becoming a member of the navy at age 17, he later joined the SAS and spent over 8 years studying all types of excessive survival, together with snow and ice mountain warfare in caves and blizzards. He left the navy to concentrate on his household, the unit he holds most beneficial; his spouse and two sons. These days, Rick’s a bushcraft survival educator, operating a bushcraft and survival college that prioritises bringing fathers and sons collectively via studying and shared time collectively. He’s all the time had a robust curiosity in ethnobotany; the connection between native crops and their Indigenous cultural makes use of. He’s significantly curious in regards to the fire-lighting, dietary, medicinal, and crafting qualities of crops. This fascination might have fed into his changing into an unlikely social media star, with a TikTok account amassing over 1.3M likes and 176,000 loyal followers, whom he affectionately refers to as ‘Bushtokkers’.
Suzan, 54 Wilderness Journey Information, VIC “I wish to showcase my 40-plus years of survival abilities and present that an older girl can use knowledge and expertise to compensate for declining bodily energy.”
Suzan has cherished the consolation of nature since childhood and has all the time endeavoured to spend extra day out than in. Residing off-grid along with her husband and two canine, Suzan is a wilderness journey information, a deep wilding facilitator and a novice filmmaker, having directed and featured in Suzy and the Easy Man; a documentary about our relationship with one another and nature. For many years, Suzan has lived a nature-based existence by harvesting sources for her life-style from the land she lives on. With a broad ability set together with looking and gathering, scavenging, shelter-making and deep plant information, she needs to discover the bounds of her reference to the land. Suzan is intrinsically succesful and decided to show that, even when missing among the bodily energy of some rivals, older girls have the life expertise, endurance and knowledge to outlive and thrive past expectation.
Tamika, 51 Off-Gridder & Former Police Officer, QLD “The motivation to outlive within the wilderness comes from a sense I’ve day-after-day. It’s the inspiration from nature. It’s a craving to search out out what’s across the nook… I’m hoping I can encourage different individuals to simply love the earth as a lot as I do.”
The daughter of a bushman, looking, fishing, tenting and exploring had been the lifestyle all through Tamika’s childhood. Now an off-gridder, Tamika has lived sustainably for the previous decade, rising or foraging half of the meals consumed by her household. She’s giving up the consolation of her gypsy wagon and taking up the Alone problem with what looks like ten lifetime’s value of abilities gained from an eclectic cross part of occupations and experiences: former Australian bowhunting champion, police officer, scuba diving teacher, incapacity employee, nationwide parks ranger, fly fishing rod maker, farmer, tattooist and over twenty years training permaculture and natural medication. A plant-based chef and writer, Tamika has been a vegetarian for over eight years, consuming plant-based just for the previous 5. Looking and killing an animal ‘that appears after it’s younger’ would be the hardest take a look at for Tamika – bodily and emotionally – however she’s deliberated and resolved to choose up her bow and arrow yet one more time to wholly embrace the Alone expertise. If Tamika can encourage somebody to take their first step in direction of connecting with nature – she’ll depend that as her win.
Alone Australia: The Podcast: Hosted by Alone Australia Season 1 winner Gina Chick and SBS Presenter Darren Mara, Alone Australia: The Podcast launches Friday 29 March. Catch the podcast weekly on SBS On Demand, SBS Australia on YouTube, the SBS Audio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Alone Australia is an A+E Media Group format and ITV Studios Australia manufacturing for SBS.
It can even be obtainable with subtitles in 5 languages: Simplified Chinese language, Arabic, Vietnamese, Conventional Chinese language and Korean, and with audio description for blind or vision-impaired audiences.
