Need to know
- Alone Australia is back for a fourth season, premiering at 7.30 pm AEST, Wednesday, 15 July 2026 on SBS.
- This season is billed as the “most brutal yet” as it switches hemispheres to the Arctic Circle.
- Some of the ten contestants have never experienced snow before, setting up this season for an epic adventure.
Alone Australia is back for another season in 2026, but there’s a twist. This season is set in the Arctic Circle, specifically in the Sápmi region, home of the Indigenous Sámi people.
Season four has already kicked off with the contestants all catching fish, avoiding bears, and building shelters. However, we’re heading into an Arctic winter, which is like nothing many of the contestants have experienced before. Temperatures can plunge to -50 degrees Celsius. Plus, some contestants even admit to having never experienced snow or ice.
Billed as “the most brutal season yet,” not everyone is going to be able to endure the conditions.
In Alone Australia, ten contestants are dropped in a remote location with a limited amount of tools and 40 kilos worth of camera equipment and left to their own devices. The aim of the game is to outlast the rest of the contestants. They do this by building shelter from the elements, hunting, fishing or foraging for sustenance, and doing the mental work required to withstand a solitary existence in the wild. Loneliness is often the thing that gets most of the people to attempt this challenge.
If they reach their limit, the contestants must contact the production by walkie-talkie and say the iconic line: “I’m tapping out.”
The last person standing wins $250,000.
Who has left Alone Australia 2026?
Despite injury, lack of food, and emotional setbacks impacting this season’s contestants, the first two episodes end with no one tapping out. But it looks like someone will make that fateful call in episode three…
New episodes of Alone Australia air at 7.30 pm AEST on SBS, or watch on-demand on SBS On Demand.
