# Alone season 8

The eighth season of Alone, a.k.a. Alone: Grizzly Mountain, premiered on June 3, 2021. The season reverts to the original format of the show, with the last person standing declared the winner and awarded $500,000. At the end of most episodes in which a contestant taps out, Season 6 contestant and fifth-place finisher Nikki van Schyndel (a survival expert and first responder) conducts a short exit interview at base camp a few days after the tap out.

## Location

The eighth season is set along the shores of high-elevation Chilko Lake (Tŝilhqox Biny), British Columbia, a 40-mile long remote glacial lake on the dry eastern side of the Coast Mountains. The lake's surface is at over 3800 ft above sea level, making Season 8 the first Alpine season of Alone, being over 1000 ft higher in elevation than the next-highest season, Season 3, in Patagonia. Drop off (Day 1) was on September 18, 2020.

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
| 78 | 1 | "The Hunted" | June 3, 2021 (2021-06-03) | 1.338 |
| "The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation." – Sukarno |||||
| 79 | 2 | "Open Season" | June 10, 2021 (2021-06-10) | 1.561 |
| "True wilderness can still be found, but it's hard to reach and dangerous when you get there." – Michelle Paver |||||
| 80 | 3 | "Chewed Up" | June 17, 2021 (2021-06-17) | 1.396 |
| "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." – Seneca |||||
| 81 | 4 | "Far From Home" | June 24, 2021 (2021-06-24) | 1.419 |
| "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." – Franklin D. Roosevelt |||||
| 82 | 5 | "The Buck" | July 1, 2021 (2021-07-01) | 1.406 |
| "Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness." – John Muir |||||
| 83 | 6 | "Smoked" | July 8, 2021 (2021-07-08) | 1.362 |
| "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier |||||
| 84 | 7 | "Surrounded" | July 15, 2021 (2021-07-15) | 1.705 |
| "In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." – Robert Green Ingersoll |||||
| 85 | 8 | "The Grizzly" | July 22, 2021 (2021-07-22) | 1.507 |
| "I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax." – Richard Feyman [sic] |||||
| 86 | 9 | "The Troll" | August 5, 2021 (2021-08-05) | N/A |
| "We have nowhere else to go… This is all we have." – Margaret Mead |||||
| 87 | 10 | "All In" | August 12, 2021 (2021-08-12) | N/A |
| "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." – Horace |||||
| 88 | 11 | "The Reckoning" | August 19, 2021 (2021-08-19) | N/A |
| "The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory." – Ted Engstrom |||||
| 89 | 12 | "Ultimate Moments" | August 19, 2021 (2021-08-19) | N/A |

## Results

| Name | Age | Gender | Hometown | Country | Status | Reason they tapped out |
| Clay Hayes | 39 | Male | Kendrick, Idaho | United States | 74 days | Victor |
| Biko Wright | 29 | Male | Otis, Oregon | United States | 73 days | Starvation, heart palpitations |
| Theresa Emmerich Kamper | 39 | Female | Exeter, England | United Kingdom | 69 days (medically evacuated) | Low BMI, lost too much weight |
| Colter Barnes | 36 | Male | Inian Islands, Alaska | United States | 67 days (medically evacuated) | Low BMI, lost too much weight |
| Rose Anna Moore | 43 | Female | Wellsboro, Pennsylvania | United States | 37 days (medically evacuated) | Frostbite, malnutrition |
| Nate Weber | 47 | Male | East Jordan, Michigan | United States | 24 days | Food poisoning |
| Matt Corradino | 42 | Male | St. Croix | U.S. Virgin Islands | 22 days | Missed his family |
| Michelle Finn | 46 | Female | Cherryfield, Maine | United States | 21 days | Starvation |
| Jordon Bell | 43 | Male | Oak Ridge, Tennessee | United States | 19 days | Missed his family |
| Tim Madsen | 48 | Male | Laramie, Wyoming | United States | 6 days (medically evacuated) | Anxiety attack, chest pains |