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“Alone” Winner Jordan Jonas Tangled with a Wolverine

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A wolverine tried to rob Jordan Jonas’s winter meat supply, and it cost the animal its life.

Jordan Jonas won Season 6 of History Channel’s “Alone” by outlasting nine other survivalists in the subarctic wilderness near Great Slave Lake, and one of the wildest stretches of his 77 days out there involves a wolverine that would not leave his camp alone. Jonas laid out the full story on “The Joe Rogan Experience” episode #1482, and it’s a lot more specific — and a lot bloodier — than the raid-and-run version that’s floated around online. It starts with a stolen jug of fat and ends with a recurve bow, an axe, and a dead wolverine pinned to the frozen ground.

• A wolverine broke into Jonas’s camp overnight early in his stay and stole a plastic jug holding an estimated 35,000 calories of rendered moose kidney fat.
• Jonas rigged tin-can trip-line alarms around his camp, but the wolverine kept coming back, at one point prowling around in broad daylight.
• At dusk, alerted by the cans, Jonas shot the wolverine through the leg with his recurve bow, pinning it into the frozen earth, then killed it with his axe.

The Fat Jug Heist

Jonas had just harvested a moose, which meant he was sitting on the kind of caloric reserve that can make or break a winter-long solo stay. Rendered kidney fat is about as calorie-dense as food gets in the bush, and Jonas had packed a big batch of it into a plastic jug near his shelter. A wolverine found it overnight and hauled off roughly 35,000 calories’ worth — enough to represent weeks of margin for someone rationing every bite in a place like the boreal country around Great Slave Lake, a stretch of terrain covered in the outdoors content that shows like “Alone” are built around.

Alarms, Trip Lines, and a Repeat Visitor

Losing the fat wasn’t the end of it. Wolverines are notorious for holding a grudge on a food source, and this one kept circling back to Jonas’s site. He responded by building a perimeter warning system out of tin cans strung on trip lines — a low-tech but effective way to hear an animal coming in the dark. It worked as an early-warning system, but it didn’t scare the wolverine off. At one point the animal got bold enough to prowl through camp in daylight, which told Jonas this wasn’t a one-time raid he could just shrug off.

The arrow passed through the wolverine’s leg and stuck fast in the frozen ground, pinning the animal in place while it snarled and fought to break free.

The Confrontation

The showdown came at dusk, when the tin-can alarms went off again and Jonas grabbed his recurve bow to confront the animal directly. His shot went through the wolverine’s leg and buried itself in the frozen dirt, effectively staking the animal to the spot. With the wolverine snarling and trying to twist loose, Jonas moved in with his axe and finished it off with several strikes. It’s the kind of moment “Alone” built its reputation on — no camera crew, no backup, just a contestant and a 30-pound predator that had already proven it wasn’t going anywhere.

Building a Cache That Would Hold

With the wolverine dead, Jonas still had a winter’s worth of moose meat to protect from the next scavenger that wandered through. He built an elevated, Siberia-style food cache — raised well off the ground on posts, out of reach of anything without wings — to store what remained of the moose. That solution, drawn from techniques Jonas picked up during years spent in Siberia before the show, held up for the rest of his run and helped him become the outlasting competitor when the season ended.

Rogan’s clip of the story, pulled from episode #1482 of “The Joe Rogan Experience” and posted by JRE Clips, is the kind of segment that keeps circulating years after “Alone” Season 6 wrapped, mostly because Jonas tells it the way he lived it — no embellishment needed when the punchline is an axe and a pinned wolverine.