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On the Edge
Episode number: 1
Overview: Sue readies her camp for the coming winter. Glenn makes his move from Fairbanks to Chandalar. Jessie revamps his entire dog lot. The Hailstones begin work on a mobile home.
Pride and Power
Episode number: 2
Overview: Sue waits on a fuel delivery. Glenn goes on a moose hunt. Jessie revamps his dog lot. The Hailstones begin to build a mobile home.
Falling Apart
Episode number: 3
Overview: Sue makes needed repairs around camp. Jessie collects fish from his fish wheel. Glenn works to haul a moose back to camp. Chip processes and trades pieces of a caribou.
Deadly Tracks
Episode number: 4
Overview: With the freeze under way, Alaskans scramble to secure their livelihoods. Sue Aikens returns to find a dangerous predator lurking just outside of camp.
Breaking Through
Episode number: 5
Overview: The Arctic’s late freeze presents unique challenges for Alaskans as they attempt to gather food and resources for survival.
Shakedown
Episode number: 6
Overview: Repairs, hunting and errands are all on the to-do list as five Alaskans struggle to get through the everyday grind as a long, dark winter looms ahead.
Ghosts of Winter
Episode number: 7
Overview: The looming arrival of dark winter forces Alaskans to tackle various obstacles to ensure a prosperous season.
No Boundaries
Episode number: 8
Overview: In the dead of winter, Alaskans travel into the mountains and across frozen rivers and tundra to obtain resources for survival.
Trapped and Hunted
Episode number: 9
Overview: Though not easy tasks, trapping and hunting are essential activities for Alaskans to get crucial food and fur to survive dark winter.
Winter Kill
Episode number: 10
Overview: Alaskans pursue scarce resources in anticipation of the coming spring and face some unexpected surprises.
Sue Aikens
Episode number: 11
Overview: Sue Aikens has chosen to carve out a life of perilous isolation in the remote artic tundra, overcoming constant challenges to thrive at Kavik River Camp, a remote refueling station on the North Slope of Alaska. Sue reveals her journey to Kavik, starting from a rough childhood and tracing through three marriages and numerous ups and downs, and she shares what it is that draws her to a life of solitude.
Loaded
Episode number: 12
Overview: Sue gets stuck with the loader on the road from Deadhorse to Kavik. Glenn suffers a leg injury on a trek home. Andy kills and processes a lynx. Chip hunts for muskox.
The Hailstones
Episode number: 13
Overview: Chip and Agnes Hailstone struggle to live in the Artic and survive as a family, while passing along the importance of their heritage and native traditions to their children. Chip and Agnes discuss their background and experiences, sharing the struggles they have had living a semi-nomadic subsistence lifestyle while hunting, fishing and gathering to survive in the harsh conditions of Northwest Alaska.
No Shortcuts
Episode number: 14
Overview: Sue's loader travels to Kavik on a convoy. Glenn builds a snow cave and stays on the mountain overnight. Andy rebuilds his wind turbine. Agnes and Chip travel home to Noorvik.
Glenn Villeneuve
Episode number: 15
Overview: Sixty-five miles above the Arctic Circle, in a sparse Brooks Range, Glenn Villeneuve has given up nearly all modern conveniences to carve out a life of freedom in the wild.