Alan Kay teaches outdoor survival classes when he is home in Georgia.A man from Blairsville, Ga., is a finalist tonight on “Alone,” the History Channel show that took men from across the country, dropped them in the middle of nowhere with 10 survival items and told them to stay alive as long as they could.
Alan Kay, 41, who has lived in the mountains of North Georgia since he was 16, is going up against Sam Larson from Lincoln, Neb., in the show’s finale. One of them is walking away with $500,000.
On the phone Wednesday afternoon, Kay, who has a wife and four children, wouldn’t say if he knows whether he won.
“We just have to wait and see,” said Kay, a corrections officer for the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Last winter, Kay and Larson, along with eight other men, were left on Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, with nothing but their wilderness skills and items such as a saw, axe, sleeping bag, knife and water bottle.