Surviving Alone in the Wild with Kielyn Marrone

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In 2019, outdoor guide Kielyn Marrone was put to the test when she competed on the TV show Alone. On the show, contestants are dropped into remote places with only 10 pieces of equipment and challenged to survive in the wild. Kielyn finished third in her season, lasting a total of 80 days in a hand built shelter, cooking over a fire, and hunting and forging for food.

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0:00.0	In 2019, outdoor guide Kylan Moroni was put to the test when she competed on the TV show, Alone.
0:10.0	If you haven't seen Alone, it's one of the most extreme outdoor competition shows I've ever watched.
0:15.2	Contestants are dropped into remote places with only 10 pieces of equipment and challenge to survive in the wild.
0:23.0	Kylen finished third in her season,
0:25.0	lasting a total of 80 days and a hand-built shelter,
0:29.0	cooking over a fire, and hunting and foraging for food. I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living
0:36.3	an REI co-op studio's production.
0:38.8	Kailin Maroni lives in Northern Ontario, Canada, where she and her husband Dave
0:46.7	have built an off-the-grid homestead. There they hunt, trap, and forge for most of their food.
0:52.0	In addition to being their home base, the property is also the headquarters of their winter adventure company.
0:58.0	Kila never guessed that her career as an outdoor guide would lead her to compete on a reality TV show. In fact in her
1:05.2	normal life, Kielin doesn't watch much TV at all. For several years while she and
1:10.0	Dave were building their own house on 40 acres of undeveloped land.
1:13.4	They lived year-round in a tent in northern Canada, even in the dead of winter.
1:19.1	How did you get the idea to even apply to be on a loan?
1:25.0	Yeah, it's kind of a funny story like we in our tent we downloaded season four of alone because our friend Jim Baird was on it and it was a pairs
1:39.9	it was a couple's seasons so it was Jim and his brother Ted from Ontario and we were
1:47.8	watching them and they won and they got inspired my husband and he wanted to apply.
1:55.0	And season five was like a redemption season,
2:00.0	so he didn't qualify for that.
2:03.0	He didn't get a call back for season six.
2:05.0	And then for season seven, they were sort of doing a bit of digging,
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