‘Alone Australia’ Season 2: Meet the Cast
Another season of Alone Australia is coming to the History Channel. The Down Under spinoff of the hit survival series returns on June 20 with a new group of 10 survivalists fighting to be the last one standing and take home $250,000 AUD.
‘Alone Australia’ Season 2 takes place in New Zealand
The first season of Alone Australia aired in 2023 and challenged participants to survive in a remote part of Tasmania. Gina Chick won the competition after 67 days.
For season 2, the cast will confront the wild terrain of New Zealand’s South Island, also known as Aotearoa’s Te Waipounamu. They’ll be challenged by the harsh natural environment, in addition to dangerous wild animals, extreme hunger, and complete isolation. But unlike the first season, they’ll have more tools at their disposal in their fight for survival. This time, contestants will be permitted to hunt with a bow and arrow, introducing a new set of strategies and skills.
‘Alone Australia’ Season 2 cast
So, who are the 10 survivalists competing on Alone Australia Season 2? Let’s meet the cast.
Andreas is a personal trainer and subsistence hunter. He grew up in Sweden and now resides in New South Wales, Australia. Though he lives in the city, he spent his childhood honing his outdoor and fishing skills. He began hunting after he moved to Australia and now hunts and fishes for 90% of the protein he consumes.
Chace is a defense force combat engineer from Queensland with strong bushcraft and survival skills. His work as a combat engineer has helped him develop skills in exploring and surveying unknown environments, as well as enhancing his ability to think tactically and pivot quickly. The youngest member of the Alone Australia cast, Chace is also an experienced big game hunter.
Jack is a tradesman and wild game hunter from New South Wales. He’s been hunting and fishing since his family moved from Chile to Australia when he was a child. Jack believes that his work as a self-employed tradesman has given him the necessary basket of skills that will help him improvise and innovate in the wild.
Jason, a proud Yanyuwa, Waanyi/Garawa man and Jungai, is a youth worker, former rugby player, and coach. He thinks his background gives him a key advantage when it comes to dealing with the mental aspects of the Alone challenge. But he also has practical skills, including the ability to hunt using both modern and traditional methods. He’s lived in different environments around Australia and has learned traditional methods of hunting, fishing, and foraging from elders and family members.
Krzysztof is a Polish-Australian aquaculturalist from Victoria. Raised in a refugee family, he considers himself a jack of all trades, from leatherwork to medieval combat. He and his partner live in a largely self-sufficient, DIY home, and he’s eager to flex his crafting skills, his understanding of fish behavior, and his recurve bow hunting abilities on Alone Australia.
Leanne is a World Heritage Aboriginal Programs officer from Victoria. She’s a proud Barkandji woman who grew up fishing and foraging with her family. After devoting the past decade to motherhood, Leanne is ready to find herself again on Alone Australia. But she honed her skills on the dry, open bush, and New Zealand’s dense wet rainforest is an entirely different environment from what she’s used to.
Mike is a resilience coach from New South Wales and the oldest member of the Alone Australia Season 2 cast. He makes his living running outdoor resilience coaching and mental toughness training workshops for boys, men, and elite sporting teams. He’s also a deer hunter who’s spent years dedicating himself to learning how to live off the land. He thinks his tenacity, combined with his hunting and fishing skills, will give him an edge in the competition.
Rick is a survival educator and former SAS soldier from Queensland. He joined the military at age 17 and spent over eight years learning all forms of extreme survival, including snow and ice mountain warfare in caves and blizzards, as a member of the SAS. Now, he’s an unlikely social media star, sharing his knowledge of bushcraft, ethnobotany, and survival with a loyal audience on TikTok.
Suzan is a wilderness adventure guide from Victoria who lives off-grid with her husband and two dogs. Her skills include hunting, gathering, scavenging, and shelter-making. She’s already opened up about her connection with nature in Suzy and The Simple Man, a documentary she directed. Now, she wants to prove that even though older women might not have the same physical strength as some other survivalists, they have the life experience, patience, and wisdom to thrive in difficult situations.
Tamika is an off-gridder and former police officer from Queensland. As the daughter of a bushman, she spent her childhood hunting, fishing, camping, and exploring. For the past decade, she’s lived sustainably, growing or foraging half of the food her family consumes. As a committed vegetarian, she thinks her toughest Alone challenge will be having to kill an animal that looks after its young in order to eat. But she’s committed to picking up her bow and arrow one more time for this experience. She hopes her journey will inspire others to connect with nature.
Alone Australia Season 2 premieres Thursday, June 20 at 9:30 p.m. ET on History Channel.
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