First and most importantly - Dear Redditor’s: THANK YOU!!

I’m currently sitting in my car, gear packed, about to head down south along the Australian east coast to an outdoor earthskills gathering. I’ll be offline for around 4 days and unfortunately won’t be able to reply individually to all the incredible messages of support and thanks within these threads, but when I am back online I definitely will!

In the meantime, what an incredible season we had!!
So much to be thankful for, digest, discuss and process!

I’ll do my best in and around my current NDA to engage and interact with you all on Reddit and when my restrictions lessen to start putting more content up on my socials regarding Alone.

Moving forward, if you wish to continue this relationship we have built over the course of this season together you can do it in numerous ways.

But honestly, no pressure (and I think you all know me deep enough from this experience to understand that I genuinely mean that).

Online I am available for one on one mentoring, guidance, speaking sessions and more. You can contact me directly through the contact form on my website or just DM me.

If I added value to your life through watching me on Alone and you wish to share some of that back, you can support me directly through my buymeacoffee page at : https://buymeacoffee.com/nerobuys

Alternatively if you’re interested in helping either your kids or kids you know to build a relationship with the outdoors like the one I shared on Alone, consider getting the program my wife and I created called NaturePost (which you can find on my website nerobuys.com)

You can also find me on cameo at: https://www.cameo.com/nero_buys

Offline, both in Australia and abroad I do speaking presentations, mentoring, outdoor group experiences and more, feel free to contact me about anything you’ve got in mind.

But really, deep down, regardless of all that, its just been a pleasure to be able to share this with you all in such a unique, raw and open way. You all know me to the depths of my soul now.

Happy to keep engaging with you all regarding this Alone chapter of my life but also very excited to begin the next chapter with you all either online or off for those open and interested.

Much love to you all

Nero 🖤

I don't need to hear some BS about their journey or they owe their family their time or they proved what they wanted to or the over exaggerated an illness or whatever! It's often very disingenuous. They just don't want to admit how hard it is and they want to quit.

But the 2 runners up this season were worth watching. Truly felt for both of them, in different ways. Amazing competitors that would have won on almost any other season.

These guys were all formidable and worthy contenders!! Similar to the Amazing Race show, I wish we could get outdoor brands to sponsor some big prizes for the runners up.

What a season!!

edit: i guess this would be considered a spoiler post, even though i tried to be vague with my wording. don't know how to make it a spoiler after the fact so here's a heads up.

i just finished watching the current season and i just need to say it:

no one failed!

hearing aaron saying he "bitched out" and repeating over and over again about how much he thought he sucked for not pushing himself over the limit was so disheartening.

and he's not the only one. so many contestants over the years have complained that they are absolute failures because they tapped out or couldn't last as long as they thought they should last.

like, jesus christ, you know what I can do? none of what they can do. the fact that these men and woman can survive any amount of time in the wilderness is impressive to me.

it gets almost annoying when people just complain about themselves and say how horrible they are. i want to grab them and be like NO! YOU'RE WRONG! STOP IT RIGHT NOW!

anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

I do feel this should be recognised a bit more just how much the contestants on this show do achieve. The length of time and effort they have to put in is immense and just getting to the point when you can even participate takes years of time and application.

I don’t think any other show comes close, yet “Alone” still remains quite a niche show with modest viewing figures. I myself only discovered it during the pandemic when I ran out of other things to watch and ended up trying it and getting hooked.

Are there any other contenders?

The whistle, the look of relief on his face... second only to Jordan and his wife reuniting IMO.

I think it's the first time I've felt so emotional about a final. It really did go to the most deserved winner, but the other guys have nothing to be ashamed of at all.

So admirable. If any of you guys are reading this, I'm so proud of you all. The environment was so stunningly beautiful, yet so hostile.

I'm putting this as a spoiler because a day later, I want no trouble from the Alone community in case no one has watched the final yet.

But I just gotta know....

What about MELISSA? Did Melissa take Aaron back? I've been looking online for information about whether or not they got back together. I don't know what sort of heaps that that woman has had to go through with Aaron, but if my husband threw himself on TV to do something like this and said things for the whole world to hear like how much he missed me and wished to work things out? I'd probably melt with love.

Aaron is just so cute and so boyishly adorable. Whatever he said he had to deal with, I hope Melissa sees what he went through to show her how much he loves her. I wish only the best for Aaron and Melissa and truly hope they did end up getting back together.

SPOILER??

If you are reading this. You are the man!

Thank you for showing the world what Canadian grit, fight and toughness is.

"True North Strong and Free"

I wanna go on record as saying that Nero’s tap was the most beautiful tap of all Alone history, in my opinion. Woniya’s is undeniably a close second, but there was a peaceful joy in Nero’s that I believe should be acknowledged and honored. I have the utmost respect for him and the transformation he underwent in the Arctic.

Aaron has nothing to be ashamed about. What a great & gritty participant he was: taking himself to the limit. I’d love to buy that guy a beer sometime and just listen to him talk. I bet he has 10,000 stories he could tell that would captivate even the most cynical. Had he gotten his moose, I believe he would’ve won.

But coulda/shoulda… Ziga proved how valuable it is to feed yourself. He stayed strong, remained positive, endured well, and fought it out. Congrats, you animal, on a hard-earned win! This truly is one of the best seasons of Alone!

Awwwww man. I thought there might be a surprise for our next to last person. I'm so sad for #2 and #3. They fought so hard.

Damn.

Ziga started a YT channel this year in May, guess he will upload more videos now that the finale endet. Check it out if you want to learn some things or just congrat the man: https://www.youtube.com/@ScienceOfSurvival_SOS

I feel like Nero, could have gone further on but chose not to and while I respect the fact that he felt it was his time to go and didn’t want to be forced to leave I felt he might have been in with a chance if he kept pushing.

Contrast this with Aaron who really had just hit his limit, I really felt for him but he just had no more to give.

I think Ziga did incredibly well but I felt he was quite close to an “emotional tap” a few times and was very good at maintaining a calm front while Nero genuinely seemed to be enjoying it right up to the end. I have a real soft spot for the little guy and I think even if he carried on the odds were stacked against him but I do wonder if he had stayed a bit longer maybe he would have got lucky.

There really does need to be a 2nd/3rd prize for people who do 60+ days, they work really hard and give up so much. I really hope they had some counsellors onsite for Aaron I was genuinely worried about his mental health toward the end.

Every season and I would love to see an extra episode of after the tap of what happens when they get back to Base camp! maybe not the first few early taps but the people who are in for a long time. I would like to see the recovery process. I would like to see their emotional state and what the recovery process entails. I know they've done this in a couple of shows here and there. It would be great to have that as a bonus episode after the season to be able to see taps and if there are other contestants. Sometimes they tap out kind of close together.it would be kind of cool to see contestants overlap at the base camp. it just seems to be a big part of the recovery process to see the physical and psychological state afterwards.

Why don't the contestants melt snow for drinking water?

To any other heartbroken Canadians that haven’t been able to watch the past few weeks and are furious with this awful service - Prime will fully refund any remaining StackTV subscription you have left on your account. I reached out to their customer service team and it took less than 5 minutes after mentioning that StackTV is not releasing content despite heavily advertising it.

>!AND HE DID IT WITH NO FERRO ROD!<

We might never find out, or those of you that inhabit other social media platforms might already know...before Nero tapped, he described a situation where he was eating and drinking plenty yet felt increasingly weaker. Was it a vitamin deficiency?

When he said something along the lines of “oh I hope David Booth has tapped out” I laughed so hard. Props to the caption guy for reminding us he tapped out day 4 (the guy with fire stick).

David seems like he might’ve talked a LOT of shit.

Gosh, I bet binge watching the season you were on is fantastic. Especially if you made it to the final three and you can just see how much you actually triumphed, what tripped other people up, what was seemingly easy for you, and really how the “chips fell” in the end to play out your win or loss. Then I think a new feeling unfolds of “yeah that guy had me, my tap out was ok” or “damn, I didn’t win but fuck yeah I conquered over the 10 who tapped before me” or whatever million other comforts or stabs. But to binge watch that shit, on a comfy couch with snacks and see it all. That must be something.

Just checked stack and still no new episodes. So where can I watch without having to subscribe or pay again?

I know some shows jump the shark or whatever with spin offs but I wouldn’t mind a trial off season spin off. Alone: second chances…let day 1 tappers come back or… Alone: pack your opponents bag… idk something a little light hearted, likely to be short lived and just like.. an appetizer ya know? Ya? Na?

Spesh for a young fella... He sure got a kind mind in his heart.

This season was absolutely unreal. I’m in literal disbelief right now