Jung Hyeon-jun
ActingSouth KoreaJung Hyeon-jun (Korean: 정현준) is a South Korean actor. He is best known internationally for his role as Park Da-song in the Academy Award-winning film Parasite.
Adam Richman
ActingNew York, New York, USAGrowing up in New York City Adam had the opportunity to try food from around the world and was instantly hooked on cuisine. To pursue his food passion Adam attended Emory University in Atlanta Georgia. Upon completing their undergraduate program Adam began a food journal to document the food establishments he was discovering throughout the Southeastern U.S. He coupled his education with purposely working almost every type of restaurant job and in various part of America to gain the full culinary experience of the country. After graduating from Yale Adam pursued acting with guest roles on tv shows "Law and Order", "Joan of Arcadia", "Guiding Light", and "All My Children".
Katie Rydge
ActingKatie is the co-founder of Nature Philosophy, lives on Gumbaynggirr Country on the East Coast of Australia and has two children, Ella and Hunter.Since Katie was a child, she has felt a deep kinship with the natural world and grew up both in the city and on ranches where she spent many years riding horses in remote locations and mustering cattle.In her early 20’s, she left Australia for the USA where she dove deeply into a broad range of primitive living skills, solo wilderness rites of passage, and survival. That was over 20 years ago and since that time she has dedicated herself to mastering and teaching these skills to her Australian community.Katie has also spent the last 15 years guiding groups into a remote Australian Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. Her time spent with the Yolngu people has deeply inspired her outlook on life and understanding of survival.Katie’s participation on ALONE is an initiation into the next phase of her life. A true survival quest that will be the ultimate test of her survival philosophy, physical ability, and spiritual skills. Through sharing her journey, she hopes to inspire women all over the world to discover their strength by connecting with the natural world.
Jit Patel
ActingJit was born in the UK and grew up in South London. He was introduced to the outdoors mainly through school camps, but at 14 joined the Army Cadets. This gave him his first experience ofembracing the elements and learning to push himself through challenges.With all that travel, he knew the UK might not be where he would settle down, but was keen to find that place. He spent a year in Australia and then went to New Zealand on a Working Holiday Visa.It was in New Zealand where he began working for Outward Bound, an Outdoor Education Charity that believes in building resilience and learning more about yourself and others by living and adventuring together in the outdoors. His first full-time job saw him in that role for nearly 3 years before moving into the office as the operations manager.Being from the UK, hunting was not a part of growing up, however, colleagues at Outward Bound introduced him to bow hunting and the mindfulness that comes with stalking, shooting, and processing your own game.During this transition away from the field and into the office, he got his dog Ahi, and met his partner Madi. Whilst his parents still live in the UK and his brother’s family in Singapore, he’s hoping to make New Zealand his home.He’s grateful to his parents and brother, who have always supported and encouraged him to take on new challenges, explore the world, and follow his passions. And to his partner Madi, for encouraging him on this journey, and who he can’t wait to face the challenges ahead with.
Nathan Olsen
ActingNathan Olsen lives in southern Idaho with his wife Erica and a blended family of ten children and two grand-children. This big family lifestyle is nothing new for Nathan, who grew up in a large Mormon family, and whose brother, Luke Olsen, competed in Alone Season 10.As a young introvert, Nathan learned to cope with living in a high density home by frequently escaping to the surrounding wilderness of southern Idaho. At age ten, he took his desire to be alone a step further by convincing his parents to let him homeschool and become a sheep herder. A typical homeschool day involved packing some books and leading his flock of Suffolk to graze the canyon upstream from the family home. “My first home school assignment was to find an arrowhead, draw a picture of it in place, and write a story about how it got there. ” Nathan feels grateful to have parents who encouraged each child to develop their interests from a young age.At age fifteen, Nathan enrolled in college and earned a Bachelor of Science in Soil Science and eventually a Masters in Business Administration. He worked as a field guide for the Anasazi Foundation, an outdoor therapeutic program co-founded by his father, Larry Dean Olsen. Nathan farmed potatoes in Turkey and Romania and for the past 20 years, has been the CEO of BestNotes, a software company started with his brothers.Erica and Nathan decided to get married after sitting on the couch binge-watching all of the Alone series. By participating in the show, Nathan and Erica hope to model for their children and grandchildren the courage to pursue their interests and do hard things, even with uncertain outcomes.