Jordan Jonas is the survivalist who won Season 6 of the History Channel show Alone, lasting 77 days alone in the Arctic using traditional survival skills. On this episode of the Tom Rowland Podcast, Jordan joins Tom to talk about what it actually took to survive that long with almost nothing, the traditional tricks he leaned on to catch fish when his own methods failed, and how that experience has led him into teaching survival skills to others.
Jordan Jonas is a survivalist and outdoorsman who won Season 6 of the History Channel show Alone, surviving 77 days in the Arctic using traditional wilderness skills.
Alone is a survival competition where contestants live completely alone in the wilderness, filming themselves, for as long as they can last. Jordan Jonas won Season 6 by lasting 77 days in the Arctic.
After days without a catch, he moved his net to a new spot and hung a shiny tin can cut into fish shapes inside it, a trick he had seen native people use. A pike struck the net right where he hung it.
Yes. Around the time of this conversation with Tom, Jordan announced his first weekend and week-long survival seminars, an idea that came up directly in this episode.
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Rob Chapman, a past guest of mine, told me I had to watch Alone, and I got completely sucked in watching Season 6. Jordan won it, and what he did out there was remarkable enough that I wanted to hear it directly from him rather than just watch it on television.
All of the contestants on Alone are legitimate survivalists, but Jordan lasted longer than anyone else in that season, seventy-seven days in the Arctic. The tin-can fishing trick alone tells you something about the level of resourcefulness required — it is worth hearing him walk through the rest of it himself.
By the time we recorded this, Jordan had already started talking about running his own survival seminars, and between recording and publishing this episode he announced the first one on Instagram. What that program looks like, and why he decided to start teaching, is covered in the conversation.
This was one of those episodes where I mostly just wanted to listen. Jordan has lived through something almost none of us ever will, and hearing him describe it plainly, without embellishment, made it even more impressive. Press play above to hear it all.
Jordan Jonas, Rob Chapman.
Jordan Jonas is a survivalist and outdoorsman best known for winning Season 6 of the History Channel's Alone, where he survived 77 days alone in the Arctic using traditional wilderness and fishing skills.
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