I’m a huge fan of this show, and I just watched this particular season for the 2nd time. To be truthful, I was really hopeful that my fellow Maine woman would be there beside you at the end. But…she simply wasn’t in the headspace to do that, throughout the entire show. In fact, of the former contestants, you were the single one who didn’t dwell on prior poor experiences. This is absolutely 95% mental attitude! Congratulations on a well earned, well deserved win!
Just finished the season and cried with you. So proud of you, and thank you for getting a win for the strong women from this series. So much respect, especially for the connection you made with the land and ancestors 💛 congratulations
Thank you for pointing out that agriculture removes animals from a landscape. We tend to forget that farmland used to be wild, high-quality habit. I also appreciate your description of building your front door. Doors are easy to take for granted but are hard to build. I'm looking forward the next episode where I hope you will give a nice explanation about your inukshuk. Cheers from Alaska
Woniya and the other two women are nothing less than inspirational! I am so proud of these women and their connection to our planet. The amount of self awareness and courage is beautiful to witness! Woniya’s response to being the last one said so much about her empathetic kind soul! She said are the others okay? And I wanted them to win with me! We need more people like her in our world! It was such a honor to watch these women battle and conquer their journey with such integrity, bravery, and strength!
I love that the first words out of your mouth when you won the whole prize was: "are they alright". I love that you won, and I loved to see your journey.
So glad you covered the final days leading up to your win as I imagine they must have been really grueling. I was so happy when you won and teared up at your concluding interview and words of wisdom. I just kept replaying it over and over because it evoked such strong emotions seeing someone so in tune with nature triumph. Truly an inspiration for women and wilderness survivalists alike. Thank you for making this video!
Love the statement on how separated people are from the food or meat that they buy. I would say this of most of modern life, people in western countries or the global north have no idea what it takes to have our lifestyles. The environmental destruction to the exploitation of the workers it takes to have a $6 piece of clothing delivered to their doorstep to be worn once :/
So true. That is an amazing statement. As a lifelong Alaskan, I know what subsistence living is, and even up here there are so many people removed from the reality of food and survival
Season 6 was the first season of Alone I watched and I was really rooting for you to win. You also spoiled all the earlier seasons because during season 6 you mentioned a woman had yet to win hahaha. I really admire the way you talk about your experiences and I appreciate what you say about how we get our meat. I was vegetarian for about a year because I hated the way the animals were treated when being raised for meat. I grew up in an anti-hunting household, so the idea of hunting was always off putting to me. But once I became more aware of the way most store bought meat is raised, I gave the subject a lot of thought and realized hunting or raising your own animals is really the most ethical way to source meat. It also helps to hear people I respect and trust to do the right thing by the land and the animals - like you - talk about the subject. I’m not ready to hunt yet, still have to get over the mental barrier. For now, I’m buying my meat from local farms that raise the animals with care. Also, congratulations! I can’t wait to see how you use the money, you deserve it.
you're very generous to share all you knowledge with us, reading your book now it is so amazing, a blend of science, spirituality, heart... you're an amazing person and an inspiration to women (and men) wanting to feel more connected with the earth and cosmos. much love!
You are mentally capable and physically adaptable. I think the new skills that you learned in trapping helped you a lot. However congratulations on winning so now you can fulfil your dreams. It's nice to see that you always have a positive attitude. I'm surprised that so many dropped out so quickly this time.
I cried when you won such an inspiration for us ladies! I am 58 years old and watching you gave me the courage to go for my class A commercial drivers license and I got them on November 9th! So thank you so much!
Hello Ma'am, congratulations on your win and thank you for sharing all the behind-the-scenes information. if you had a school I would attend. You have a wealth of great knowledge and experience. Thank you again, loved the video.
I would love to spend a day with Woniya! So much to learn from her! I love that she teaches young people! I wish I had her in my corner as a child/teenager. She is a blessing! The amount of positivity that emanated off of her during her hardest moments was infectious and genuine.
Thank you for all your knowledge, insights and inspiration. What I learned most from you watching Alone Frozen was that whenever you were faced with a challenge you always faced it and took action, never giving up or let it defeat you and so you would keep adapting and trying and continuing on with such a grace and acceptance staying present and positive. Thank you for showing me the beauty and importance of ceremony and blessings to the ancestors and sharing your inner workings and relationship with the land and environment, you have amazing inner and outer strength and beauty.
I've been waiting for this recap too! Glad you are making two videos of the final episode because indeed they covered a lot of time in it. Very interesting about using the pemmican not as a back up food supply but to help digest lean meat. Wow! Smart.
This is amazing to see. I'm just now, in the last year, and particularly the last few months becoming strongly interested - really spiritually led, even - to learn this lifestyle, and starting from almost no knowledge is a bit intimidating. Your content is so helpful. My grandfather (99 y/o) told me a story of how modernization was the beginning of the downfall of understanding the natural order of life by talking of plows and tractors tearing up blackberry bushes, aka rabbits' habitat, as the first step of destruction. Your explanation of wheat farming destroying small animals resonated in much the same way. I have so much to learn, and I'm thankful for your teaching through your experiences 🙏🏼
THANK YOU for looking just a natural after returning as you looked on Alone. Setting an extraordnary example for young women. You're gorgeous 💯 (Just finished watching yesterday)
While serving in many countries overseas I encountered many cultures that ate the same three things every day. Bread cheese and goat meat, they're Whole lives and were approaching they're eighties. When we broke bread together , they would always smile and say good! Yes it is Thank you Woynia for your real perspective
Congratulations! Boss move on the chimney. You're right about girlscouts jetting crafts and cookies and boys got to camp and survive. I was always jealous back in the day.
You're such an inspiration--you and all the other participants, but you especially. I have a comment to add to the others, though: you and Michelle talked a lot about being a role model to young women and girls. Well, I am sixty one years old, and let me say that you are an inspiration to older women as well. Since I have reasonable health, or rather can manage my health challenges, and if I am careful, I think I could learn these skills, and have my own wilderness adventure. And/or at least live a life of more connectedness to the land.
Congratulations on your achievements and outlook on life. I have watched Alone Frozen on SBS Australia. My only complaint with the editing of the series is how quickly/rushed it goes in the final days. A lot of your unused footage that would have been interesting to see, you living in the landscape. All the Best to you.
Thank you for not quitting when anyone else would have. You are such an inspiration and you had me cheering for you out loud! The messages you got as a girl (that you are supposed to do girl things and not what the boys were doing) I got too. I still hear those messages in my head when I put together a good survival kit or have a desire to learn to hunt or fish. You have helped me to see how "lady like" it is to learn and enjoy all the skills of outdoor living and not pay attention to the voices of the past. You really are amazing. Thanks again for having this channel.
Thanks for touching on all the death involved in producing vegan foods. Don’t forget about all the deer shot just to protect the crops, they love soy fields, and often the animals aren’t even harvested for meat.
Curious how the Micklagard Hamra pants worked out for you? I just received my pants yesterday and will be wearing them this winter. Thick quality wool, quilted lining and they fit perfect.
I absolutely loved them! Best wool pants ever, they made a big difference for me out there! I'll be putting out videos about my clothing choices out there eventually too!!
There is always a bigger picture for every argument, even yours...I go on trips in Alaska, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, and live partially off of the land when I do so..Having degrees in biology and chemistry, I'd like to think I can see the bigger picture that isn't always recognized..While there is no life without death, 8 billion humans are destroying the environment in so many different ways, wild mammals have declined by 85% because all of our activity, factory farming, mining, cities, it's an endless list of reasons that all trace back to us, and we are changing the climate hundreds of times faster than almost all creatures can adapt moving forward over the next few decades, including ourselves..There are real reasons that we live in the rubble and ruins of every civilization that came before ours..All civilizations break down and collapse and die, bar none..Every civilization to ever exist has been a losing race to discover remedies for the predicaments that they produce..And our civilization is pinnacle of this cycle..It is very likely we will take everything bigger than a mouse down the pathway to extinction..While I don't think that there is anything humans will do, to stop the very worst from happening, there is a good argument to just let wild creatures alone..I do understand that prey animal populations need to be kept in balance, and western countries do very good in that regard..But soon there will be no habitat left, with a changing climate, and many wars over the entire planet..Greed, ego and violence infects the decision making process, and the results are always the same, except this time it's the entire planet, instead of an empire...There are no answers, we are far too immature to mass produce any technology, and we won't mature over the next few decades, that's not possible..
Just for context, when Europeans came to North America, for 4 hundred years the best economic activity was fur trapping, which every indigenous nation was also heavily involved in...Those animals provide services for the environment and create habitat, which is disappearing even in the wildest places..And the check is coming due..
It’s so sad what happened to this show. One of the best things on tv and it went the same way of everything else. We have to at some point have a pro female agenda and make it about strong women. I think we know now this is a fake show. Believe me I understood before there was some artistic license but now it’s just a propaganda garbage show.
What are you talking about my dude? Woniya somehow survived with fancy editing? I love seeing the women on this show and how they move with the nature (like Callie said)
@@chadbarkway3073 so what do you think happened? The producers were shoving hares into their traps and chucking Woniya, Michelle and Callie snickers bars?
@@sydneybristow89 So you feel that reality shows are completely legitimate? It’s a production like anything else. Also when people pet animals and thank them for their sacrifice and are moved to tears after killing animals they haven’t killed much wildlife sorry to tell you.
@@chadbarkway3073 Survivor, The Bachelor etc. I agree aren't completely legitimate. External camera people, producers manipulating the contestants and editing out of context and fictious conversations are woeful. Of course the edits on Alone can dramatize things sometimes, Woniya as said as much. Again I need to ask you, how do you think she survived 50 days in the arctic. If its all pandering to "girl power" do you think she had external help come in to make the distance? All of Woniya's videos on trapping, crafting, cooking are so extensive, its abundantly clear she has skills to survive like this. Also she herself says when they are moved to tears after a successful hunt is because they are starving. Going out for a couple day hunt isn't the same as literally starving and having no idea where your next meal will come from. Honestly, it appears to me you are upset because you cannot comprehend how these thoughtful women are going the distance. Have you considered they go the distance because they are thoughtful?
Woniya, you are a rock star. Very inspiring watching your journey. Congrats!
I’m a huge fan of this show, and I just watched this particular season for the 2nd time. To be truthful, I was really hopeful that my fellow Maine woman would be there beside you at the end. But…she simply wasn’t in the headspace to do that, throughout the entire show. In fact, of the former contestants, you were the single one who didn’t dwell on prior poor experiences. This is absolutely 95% mental attitude! Congratulations on a well earned, well deserved win!
Just finished the season and cried with you. So proud of you, and thank you for getting a win for the strong women from this series. So much respect, especially for the connection you made with the land and ancestors 💛 congratulations
Thank you for pointing out that agriculture removes animals from a landscape. We tend to forget that farmland used to be wild, high-quality habit.
I also appreciate your description of building your front door. Doors are easy to take for granted but are hard to build.
I'm looking forward the next episode where I hope you will give a nice explanation about your inukshuk.
Cheers from Alaska
Thanks Greg! Yep, that's certainly the plan
Woniya and the other two women are nothing less than inspirational! I am so proud of these women and their connection to our planet. The amount of self awareness and courage is beautiful to witness! Woniya’s response to being the last one said so much about her empathetic kind soul! She said are the others okay? And I wanted them to win with me! We need more people like her in our world! It was such a honor to watch these women battle and conquer their journey with such integrity, bravery, and strength!
I love that the first words out of your mouth when you won the whole prize was: "are they alright". I love that you won, and I loved to see your journey.
Thanks Rafael!
So glad you covered the final days leading up to your win as I imagine they must have been really grueling. I was so happy when you won and teared up at your concluding interview and words of wisdom. I just kept replaying it over and over because it evoked such strong emotions seeing someone so in tune with nature triumph. Truly an inspiration for women and wilderness survivalists alike. Thank you for making this video!
Love the statement on how separated people are from the food or meat that they buy. I would say this of most of modern life, people in western countries or the global north have no idea what it takes to have our lifestyles. The environmental destruction to the exploitation of the workers it takes to have a $6 piece of clothing delivered to their doorstep to be worn once :/
Exactly right. We often think there no cost just because we don't see the costa directly like we do when hunting
So true. That is an amazing statement. As a lifelong Alaskan, I know what subsistence living is, and even up here there are so many people removed from the reality of food and survival
Season 6 was the first season of Alone I watched and I was really rooting for you to win. You also spoiled all the earlier seasons because during season 6 you mentioned a woman had yet to win hahaha.
I really admire the way you talk about your experiences and I appreciate what you say about how we get our meat. I was vegetarian for about a year because I hated the way the animals were treated when being raised for meat. I grew up in an anti-hunting household, so the idea of hunting was always off putting to me. But once I became more aware of the way most store bought meat is raised, I gave the subject a lot of thought and realized hunting or raising your own animals is really the most ethical way to source meat. It also helps to hear people I respect and trust to do the right thing by the land and the animals - like you - talk about the subject. I’m not ready to hunt yet, still have to get over the mental barrier. For now, I’m buying my meat from local farms that raise the animals with care.
Also, congratulations! I can’t wait to see how you use the money, you deserve it.
Haha, sorry about that spoiler for you!
you're very generous to share all you knowledge with us, reading your book now it is so amazing, a blend of science, spirituality, heart... you're an amazing person and an inspiration to women (and men) wanting to feel more connected with the earth and cosmos. much love!
You are mentally capable and physically adaptable. I think the new skills that you learned in trapping helped you a lot. However congratulations on winning so now you can fulfil your dreams. It's nice to see that you always have a positive attitude. I'm surprised that so many dropped out so quickly this time.
Congrats!!! I've been following you for years and I was thrilled to see you win. Can't wait for part 2!
I cried when you won such an inspiration for us ladies! I am 58 years old and watching you gave me the courage to go for my class A commercial drivers license and I got them on November 9th! So thank you so much!
Very happy for you was an honor to meet you on the zoom call some months ago. I like to tell people that I kind of met you
Wish I can give you a million likes. Well deserved. The Goat.
Hello Ma'am, congratulations on your win and thank you for sharing all the behind-the-scenes information. if you had a school I would attend. You have a wealth of great knowledge and experience. Thank you again, loved the video.
I've been awaiting this video for a long time too. Now I'm looking forward to part II.
I would love to spend a day with Woniya! So much to learn from her! I love that she teaches young people! I wish I had her in my corner as a child/teenager. She is a blessing! The amount of positivity that emanated off of her during her hardest moments was infectious and genuine.
Woniya, you just keep doing your thing, we really enjoy your channel.
Thank you for all your knowledge, insights and inspiration. What I learned most from you watching Alone Frozen was that whenever you were faced with a challenge you always faced it and took action, never giving up or let it defeat you and so you would keep adapting and trying and continuing on with such a grace and acceptance staying present and positive. Thank you for showing me the beauty and importance of ceremony and blessings to the ancestors and sharing your inner workings and relationship with the land and environment, you have amazing inner and outer strength and beauty.
I've been waiting for this recap too! Glad you are making two videos of the final episode because indeed they covered a lot of time in it. Very interesting about using the pemmican not as a back up food supply but to help digest lean meat. Wow! Smart.
Thanks Anne- it makes SUCH a difference out there
just finished watching the show found your channel watched the previous recaps wow im lucky and also congratulations 🎉 😅
This is amazing to see.
I'm just now, in the last year, and particularly the last few months becoming strongly interested - really spiritually led, even - to learn this lifestyle, and starting from almost no knowledge is a bit intimidating. Your content is so helpful.
My grandfather (99 y/o) told me a story of how modernization was the beginning of the downfall of understanding the natural order of life by talking of plows and tractors tearing up blackberry bushes, aka rabbits' habitat, as the first step of destruction. Your explanation of wheat farming destroying small animals resonated in much the same way.
I have so much to learn, and I'm thankful for your teaching through your experiences 🙏🏼
THANK YOU for looking just a natural after returning as you looked on Alone. Setting an extraordnary example for young women. You're gorgeous 💯 (Just finished watching yesterday)
I think it's super smart to bring rations as one of your items. I would absolutely bring rations if I did Alone!
I just watched all the episodes & loved how you evolved over the season! Soooo happy we have a female winner as well!! Congrats again! Xoxo
While serving in many countries overseas I encountered many cultures that ate the same three things every day. Bread cheese and goat meat, they're Whole lives and were approaching they're eighties. When we broke bread together
, they would always smile and say good! Yes it is
Thank you Woynia for your real perspective
Congratulations! Boss move on the chimney. You're right about girlscouts jetting crafts and cookies and boys got to camp and survive. I was always jealous back in the day.
Very good explanation of the balance of life and the reality of death with the necesity for eating meat. Very well said.
You're such an inspiration--you and all the other participants, but you especially. I have a comment to add to the others, though: you and Michelle talked a lot about being a role model to young women and girls. Well, I am sixty one years old, and let me say that you are an inspiration to older women as well. Since I have reasonable health, or rather can manage my health challenges, and if I am careful, I think I could learn these skills, and have my own wilderness adventure. And/or at least live a life of more connectedness to the land.
You are a true inspiration and great spirit
Congratulations on your achievements and outlook on life.
I have watched Alone Frozen on SBS Australia. My only complaint with the editing of the series is how quickly/rushed it goes in the final days. A lot of your unused footage that would have been interesting to see, you living in the landscape.
All the Best to you.
Thank you for not quitting when anyone else would have. You are such an inspiration and you had me cheering for you out loud! The messages you got as a girl (that you are supposed to do girl things and not what the boys were doing) I got too. I still hear those messages in my head when I put together a good survival kit or have a desire to learn to hunt or fish. You have helped me to see how "lady like" it is to learn and enjoy all the skills of outdoor living and not pay attention to the voices of the past. You really are amazing. Thanks again for having this channel.
Aw, you're so welcome Dee Dee, and yes- all those things are definitely lady like! Go get 'em!
love!!
Love your explanations!
Very descriptive and articulate!😎👍
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Thanks for touching on all the death involved in producing vegan foods. Don’t forget about all the deer shot just to protect the crops, they love soy fields, and often the animals aren’t even harvested for meat.
Good afternoon from Syracuse NY my friend
you’re so awesome, a true inspiration
What an inspiration!!
It's hard but you did i love you from north Africa Morocco
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Curious how the Micklagard Hamra pants worked out for you? I just received my pants yesterday and will be wearing them this winter. Thick quality wool, quilted lining and they fit perfect.
I absolutely loved them! Best wool pants ever, they made a big difference for me out there! I'll be putting out videos about my clothing choices out there eventually too!!
@@BuckskinRevolution Good to hear they worked well for you! Congratulations on the big win!
Thx 4 vids,how did you load camera batteries😮😊😊creedings from Finland 😊
Fresh batteries were dropped off at the beach in a dry bag by the production crew, so that they could be replaced without human interaction
Yeah!!! 😄😀😀
Warm AIR rises. Heat moves toward cold.
Good point, I mis-spoke. Given that few of us live in vacuums, most hot things heat air, which then rises, but the heat itself behaves differently
There is always a bigger picture for every argument, even yours...I go on trips in Alaska, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, and live partially off of the land when I do so..Having degrees in biology and chemistry, I'd like to think I can see the bigger picture that isn't always recognized..While there is no life without death, 8 billion humans are destroying the environment in so many different ways, wild mammals have declined by 85% because all of our activity, factory farming, mining, cities, it's an endless list of reasons that all trace back to us, and we are changing the climate hundreds of times faster than almost all creatures can adapt moving forward over the next few decades, including ourselves..There are real reasons that we live in the rubble and ruins of every civilization that came before ours..All civilizations break down and collapse and die, bar none..Every civilization to ever exist has been a losing race to discover remedies for the predicaments that they produce..And our civilization is pinnacle of this cycle..It is very likely we will take everything bigger than a mouse down the pathway to extinction..While I don't think that there is anything humans will do, to stop the very worst from happening, there is a good argument to just let wild creatures alone..I do understand that prey animal populations need to be kept in balance, and western countries do very good in that regard..But soon there will be no habitat left, with a changing climate, and many wars over the entire planet..Greed, ego and violence infects the decision making process, and the results are always the same, except this time it's the entire planet, instead of an empire...There are no answers, we are far too immature to mass produce any technology, and we won't mature over the next few decades, that's not possible..
Just for context, when Europeans came to North America, for 4 hundred years the best economic activity was fur trapping, which every indigenous nation was also heavily involved in...Those animals provide services for the environment and create habitat, which is disappearing even in the wildest places..And the check is coming due..
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HAHAHA ALONE but you were not alone you had a cameraman you had back up if you were in trouble
No, we do all of the filming ourselves. There is no camera crew except when they come out for medical checks or to pull us out on the day we leave
I'm seeing a babyface with grey hair -- how old are you?
If you watch Alone, it tells you how old all the participants are.
It’s so sad what happened to this show. One of the best things on tv and it went the same way of everything else. We have to at some point have a pro female agenda and make it about strong women. I think we know now this is a fake show. Believe me I understood before there was some artistic license but now it’s just a propaganda garbage show.
What are you talking about my dude? Woniya somehow survived with fancy editing? I love seeing the women on this show and how they move with the nature (like Callie said)
@@sydneybristow89 So funny how you buy that.
@@chadbarkway3073 so what do you think happened? The producers were shoving hares into their traps and chucking Woniya, Michelle and Callie snickers bars?
@@sydneybristow89 So you feel that reality shows are completely legitimate? It’s a production like anything else. Also when people pet animals and thank them for their sacrifice and are moved to tears after killing animals they haven’t killed much wildlife sorry to tell you.
@@chadbarkway3073 Survivor, The Bachelor etc. I agree aren't completely legitimate. External camera people, producers manipulating the contestants and editing out of context and fictious conversations are woeful. Of course the edits on Alone can dramatize things sometimes, Woniya as said as much. Again I need to ask you, how do you think she survived 50 days in the arctic. If its all pandering to "girl power" do you think she had external help come in to make the distance? All of Woniya's videos on trapping, crafting, cooking are so extensive, its abundantly clear she has skills to survive like this. Also she herself says when they are moved to tears after a successful hunt is because they are starving. Going out for a couple day hunt isn't the same as literally starving and having no idea where your next meal will come from. Honestly, it appears to me you are upset because you cannot comprehend how these thoughtful women are going the distance. Have you considered they go the distance because they are thoughtful?
Amazing win