Featuring all-new interviews & revealing stories! Meet the Kilcher family, who live on a 600-acre homestead in Alaska. With another brutal winter approaching, the Kilchers are forced to pin all of their hopes of surviving on one last hunting trip.
As the first storm pummels the homestead, Otto and Atz, Sr. lead cattle across flooded glacial rivers; Atz Lee and Jane must move an outhouse.
Featuring all-new interviews & revealing stories! A desperate search for a newborn calf forces Charlotte and August into a snowstorm. Eivin and Eve travel to Caribou Lake to go ice-fishing in chilling weather and must spend the night in the wilderness.
The cycle of life on the homestead is continuous. Otto & Charlotte attempt to resuscitate a stillborn calf while Eve learns that taking life during a hunt isn't easy. The Kilchers say goodbye to Bruce as Eivin and Eve welcome new life with Findlay.
On the homestead, each season brings a new battle for survival, with bone-chilling winters, accident-ridden springs, backbreaking summers and frantic falls.
A never-before-seen lost episode travels back to before Atz Lee's near-fatal accident, as he planned a surprise ceremony to renew his vows with Jane at the head of the bay.Other Kilchers struggle while preparing for the big event.
A behind-the-scenes episode relives the most memorable moments of the Kilchers with previously unseen footage. The family answers viewer questions, and Atz Sr. and Atz Lee perform a song chronicling their family.
For the Kilcher family, life in Alaska is a series of epic adventures. Whether it’s a high altitude hunt, a perilous journey to work, or risking it all to help a neighbor in need, nothing they do is for the faint of heart.
For the Kilcher family, life in Alaska means facing danger at every turn. This special episode features behind-the-scenes interviews and the Kilchers reveal how they survive in the untamed Alaskan wild.
For the Kilchers, each day presents new conflicts from Mother Nature and one another. With unseen footage and fan questions, they show us how to survive the Alaskan wilderness and each other.
Every Kilcher man relies on the unique knowledge of his father. In this behind-the-scenes episode, the Kilcher men share the importance of communication between fathers and sons, especially in the face of danger.
In this special episode, the Kilchers answer the audience's most pressing questions about the ups and downs of life on the homestead over the last six years. They also share a sneak peek of what to expect in this exciting upcoming season.
The Kilcher family pays tribute to some of their exceptional homesteader friends, including kilt-wearing mountain man Turkey Joe and gold-mining surgeon Doc Sayer, by discussing their captivating stories and how they became part of the family's life.
For 80 years, the Kilchers have relied on an arsenal of equipment, machines, and weapons, vital to there family's survival in Alaska. Today these incredible and dangerous tools of the homestead are the only things keeping it from falling apart.
The Kilchers reveal the stinkiest, filthiest, muddiest and bloodiest jobs on the homestead.
With homesteaders and survivalists, take a first-hand look at the most intense, jaw-dropping and gut-wrenching animal moments ever caught on camera; and in never-before-seen footage, go behind the scenes with the daring camera crews who capture it all.
With Spring on the way, the Kilchers team up to prepare the homestead for the upcoming summer season, and they look back on the most pivotal moments from last year, with fresh insight and never-before-seen footage.
The family gets candid about their life in the Alaskan wild, which is a perpetual cycle of fails and fixes. And for every great solve that goes horribly wrong, another is genius, and uniquely Kilcher.
Jane Kilcher relays her five rules that have helped take her from homestead to greenhorn.
Animals play a critical role in survival on the homestead. From dangerous predators to hardworking livestock to elusive prey, each has an undeniable effect on the Kilchers' day-to-day life.
In the harsh Alaskan wilderness, it's impossible to thrive alone. In this episode, the Kilchers look back on key moments where the family and their fellow homesteaders depended on each other for survival the most.
Since their arrival on the homestead, the Kilchers have relied on fast, decisive and out-of-the-box thinking to maintain their wild way of life; no matter how big, little or crazy the idea, a little homestead ingenuity always gets the job done.
After eight decades on the homestead, the Kilcher clan teach their survival skills
Traveling to parts both known and unknown is a part of the Kilcher lifestyle that goes all the way back to Yule and Ruth's time in Switzerland. Now, the family reveals how venturing off the homestead is still necessary for survival and adventure.
The Kilchers reveal the gnarliest, hairiest and downright dirtiest moments from their nine seasons on the homestead. And a "Behind the Blast" bonus scene depicts the family's most earth-shattering, havoc-filled explosion.
As the coronavirus spreads into Alaska and ATLF camera crews are sent home for safety, the Kilcher family self-documents the quarantine and how the CV-19 crisis is changing life on the homestead.
The Kilchers look back on the last decade of their lives homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness. From their first moments on camera to never-before-seen footage, the family relives 10 years of danger, adventure and ingenuity on the last frontier.
Sharing the homestead with both wild and working animals is at the core of the Kilcher lifestyle. The family reflects on moments of friendship, mishaps, heartaches and utter chaos with these animals -- as well as Alaska's deadliest predators.
The key to pioneering success is true mastery of wilderness cuisine. Finding food on the frontier is not just about survival, however -- it's an art form. The Kilchers share their most loved homestead recipes including a pie made entirely from bear parts.
Surviving and thriving in the Alaskan wilderness requires a keen understanding of earth, wind and fire. The Kilchers demonstrate their prowess of each and explain how the elements can either lead to success or cause devastation.
Season Finale - With extended scenes, added facts and fan tweets - Take a deeper look at Kilcher family history with archived footage including Yule, the family patriarch and original homesteader. Otto and Atz share parenting insights and Otto and Eivin search for gold.
The Kilchers celebrate their females, including new mother Eve; Atz and Otto remember their mother.
The Kilchers celebrate the men in the family and share stories about their legacy.
The Kilcher family shares what could only happen on the homestead, from fashioning a support bra for a milk cow to maintaining one-of-a-kind outhouses to fending off relentless attacks from a pesky porcupine.
On the homestead, a strong partnership is key. The Kilcher couples work together to ensure the homestead's survival: from having each other's back during bear hunts to surviving fishing expeditions gone awry to providing backup on building projects.
Eivin and Atz Lee acquire meat on Shuyak Island; Otto and Eivin use the excavator; Eivin undertakes a construction job in order to supply water to Eve.
Otto transports a new bull to the head of the bay.
The Kilchers confront the realities of the changing Alaskan climate. Atz Lee enlists Atz Sr, Otto, Eivin, Bonnie and Jane for help as he embarks on an ambitious plan to follow in his grandfather Yule’s footsteps.
The guys reclaim lumber for Shane's cabin; Jewel saddles up again to help a neighbor; Eve makes a gruesome discovery; and Atz Lee and Jane find signs of an aggressive bear.
Atz Senior's daughter, singer-songwriter Jewel, and her son, Kase, visit the homestead; interviews with the Kilchers.
Otto scrambles after a chimney fire threatens his cabin. Later, Otto and August attempt to acquire a massive machine and Eivin takes Findlay on his first-ever coming-of-age hunt.
Winter is fast approaching so the Kilchers get to work preparing the homestead for the upcoming freeze. Otto's project strains his marriage while Atz Sr. scavenges for wood to warm a remote cabin. Meanwhile, Eivin builds a winter shelter for his horse.
As Thanksgiving approaches, the Kilchers prepare for a holiday feast. Eivin and Eve rescue a baby harbor seal on the beach and Charlotte and Otto contend with a beetle infestation on the homestead.