alone season 13 is now available from Wednesday evening in Canada, and it reaches viewers with a world championship label attached. The new run also shifts the competition to the mountains beyond Aklavik, where contestants were dropped inside the Arctic Circle.
Ten participants are in the contest for a $500,000 prize, and the season gives each of them 10 survival tools plus their own camera equipment. That setup keeps the format tight while widening the cast: the competitors include a retired school principal from Alaska, three other Americans, a Canadian, an Australian, a Slovenian, and contestants from New Zealand, Portugal and Wales.
Richardson Mountains and Aklavik
The location sits in the Richardson Mountains, which span the border between the Northwest Territories and Yukon. For Aklavik, the show is not just another remote backdrop; principal Janine Johnson of Moose Kerr School said residents are keen to see the area on screen, and the school planned to use proceeds from the screening to send students to sporting events and purchase school supplies.
“They love to see themselves represented, their community and their land. It lets people from other parts of the country and, I guess, the world know where they come from,” Johnson said. “It can be a very unforgiving place, but also a very beautiful place as well.”
Stack TV and 7-10pm MT
Wednesday evening’s availability on Stack TV gives Canadian viewers the first clear access point, while the History Channel was due to air 3 hours of new programming from 7-10pm MT. That split release keeps the title in front of subscribers first, then pushes the broader channel event the same night.
The show’s own framing does the rest. Producers say this season’s contestants were dropped inside the Arctic Circle, and the press release says they will battle punishing weather, relentless isolation and predators such as grizzly bears, wolves and moose.
Moose Kerr School Screening
Johnson’s comments also point to the local audience this season may reach first. “I’m sure they [the students] are going to recognize some of these places that they see. I suppose it’s going to be interesting for them to see people try to adapt here,” she said.
That is the practical payoff here: season 13 is not only another survival run, but a globally cast competition dropping into a place local residents already recognize, with a school screening tied to community funding. If viewers want the show’s selling point in one line, it is the collision of a $500,000 endgame, an Arctic Circle setting and a community that gets to see its land presented as part of the story.
