Woniya Dawn Thibeault

Never quite at home in the modern world, WONIYA THIBEAULT was always drawn to wild places and the skills our ancestors used to thrive there, and driven by a desire to honor the natural world and to feel at home in and be a part of it. Woniya's master’s degree in science and decades spent honing land-based living skills taught her how to live long-term in the wilderness, using the natural resources it provides. Three years after the solo challenge chronicled in Never Alone, seen on Season 6 of the Alone® series on The history Channel™, Woniya was invited to compete in an even more rugged spin-off series, Alone®: Frozen. With this second Alone® journey, Woniya made history in two ways: across her two stints in the wild she set a new record for cumulative days on an Alone® solitary wilderness survival challenge and also became the first woman to win one. Another memoir, about that journey, is in the works.