Alaska: The Last Frontier

2021

4.7

2.51K reviews

TV-14

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Season 3 episodes (17)

1 Cabin Fever

10/6/13

After 8 months of winter, the Kilchers have cabin fever. Eivin and Atz Lee get caught overnight in the backcountry while hunting small game. Otto struggles to get an orphan calf to connect with an unwilling mother. And there's much to do with poo.

2 Father-Son Ingenuity

10/13/13

Family projects: Before the spring thaw floods the area, Atz Sr and his 3 sons build a bridge across a river using chainsaws and fallen logs. Otto and Eivin create two amphibious crafts from their ATVs. Meanwhile, Atz Lee and Jane build a new smokehouse.

3 Spring Has Sprung

10/20/13

Spring has sprung on the homestead. Atz and family head out on a black bear hunt, but as Jane's confidence gets stronger, Atz Sr's waivers. Otto gives CPR to two prematurely born calves. Eve plants the family garden while Eivin takes on her arch nemesis.

4 Spring Delicacy

10/27/13

Atz Lee and Jane climb reefs to hunt for octopus. Jane must face her fear of heights or be trapped by the tide. Otto struggles to keep a newborn calf alive during the annual spring cattle drive. Eve gives Eivin news that will change the homestead forever.

5 Parlors and Poop Chutes

11/3/13

Eivin and pregnant Eve decide to finally add running water to their home, but Eivin hits more than water during the installation. Otto builds Charlotte a milking parlor but takes a faceful of fuel in the process. Atz and Atz Lee head out to hunt bear.

6 Outhouses, Cow Bras and Bears, Oh My!

11/10/13

Season-only

Midsummer: the Kilchers scramble to make the most of 22 hrs of sunlight. Atz tracks down predators killing the herd. Otto gets creative to help a cow with an udder problem. Eivin builds an outhouse. Atz Lee and Jane are startled while fishing for salmon.

7 Hunt in the Clouds

11/21/13

Atz Sr, Atz Lee and Jane travel to the highest peaks to hunt for wild goat. A wasp infestation destroys Eivin and Eve's bee hive and summer honey harvest. Otto and Charlotte get creative to protect what's left of their hay crop so it will last the winter.

8 Thanksgiving Special

11/24/13

Thanksgiving on the homestead. The Kilchers come together to enjoy the fruits of their year-long labor and share each dish's story. From turkey and pumpkin pie to Yule's famous nettlebread and Homesteader pie, nothing comes easy when making this feast.

9 A Prickly Situation

12/1/13

A persistent porcupine nails several of the Kilchers' too-curious animals with quills. Taking them out is a painful and sometimes dangerous procedure. Atz and his family carefully jack up and move an old abandoned cabin. Eve finds her garden decimated.

10 Of Moose and Men

12/15/13

Season-only

Atz and Atz Lee swim their horses across a chilly lake to get to bull moose hunting grounds. Bad weather and feeling under the weather won't deter them from the prize. Eivin hunts clams while Eve collects wild mushrooms. Otto and Charlotte bury a friend.

11 Homestead for the Holidays

12/22/13

Homestead holidays bring gifts of kindness: Otto decides to give his "Wacky Yak" to a friend, but the gift rejects the idea of being given. Atz Lee gathers lumps of coal--for the nice--as his gift. Atz deals with cows on ice to bring a friend's herd home.

12 Predators and Prey

12/28/13

Season-only

Grizzly bears, wolves, and coyotes remind the Kilchers that the humans aren't always the apex predator on the homestead, but threats to the Kilcher's food supplies and livelihood also come in many other shapes and sizes and from unexpected places.

13 Marital Maintenance

1/5/14

Season-only

With winter on their doorstep., the Kilchers race to finish their summer projects. Otto's enormous new project strains his marital bliss. Atz's horse strands him on the range. Eivin works some chicken magic. Atz Lee teaches Jane to fell a tree.

14 Call of the Wild

1/11/14

Otto and Eivin use a duck hunt for some last minute father-son time before Eivin becomes a dad himself. Atz and Atz Lee's father-son bonding time is less fun; they're repairing the new bridge. Jane has her own adventure: fishing--and shooting--halibut.

15 Circle of Life

1/18/14

Atz Lee and Eivin take a bushplane and brave bears on a remote island to hunt deer. Charlotte scrambles to save a cow that went down during birthing. A very pregnant Eve struggles with the chores while Eivin is away. Atz cleans his chimney Kilcher style.

16 Baby Kilcher Arrives

1/26/14

Fall is over. The Kilchers take care of last minute projects before the winter freeze--and the baby-- arrive. Jane faces wicked weather and quicksand while on her very first cattle drive with Otto. Eivin and Eve introduce the newest Kilcher to the world.

17 Extreme Seasons

1/26/14

Season-only

The Kilchers' lifestyle is dictated by the season they're in, so they adapt to extremes--from rescuing calves born in late winter snow to fighting swarms of mosquitos in almost 24 hr solstice sun. In spring, Otto tries to live down his fisherman's curse.

About this show

Always pushed to their limits by the elements, circumstances and each other, the Kilchers continue to work together as a family to sustain the rich heritage of homesteading.

Ratings and reviews

4.7

2.51K reviews

Joseph Callahan

November 18, 2015

Love the program mostly because I grew up in the interior of Alaska in a small town Delta Junction. The truth is if you plan on doing what the family does, be prepared to share, there's no room for greedy people there, also go up to Alaska the end of winter, first day of spring. That way you and your clan will acclamate to extreme weather changes. I plan on returning next year to build my house, and get my roots reestablished.

Georgia Garden Girl's Homestead

September 1, 2016

I so admire these folks for choosing to follow their "old" way life style. I use to yearn for this lifestyle. Deep inside I know physically my body could never withstand it. Just as I loved watching Little House on the Prairie growing up, I love watching and reading about Homesteading today. I guess the urge to survive must have came from my indian ancestors.

A Google user

August 26, 2016

Hats off to all the men and women who live off grid in Alaska, the true last frontier. They have adventure and guts in their blood to be able to with stand the hardships and life 's many disappointments, that they run into. There life style has been forgotten by many people who only read and dream about it. The strongest can only make it out in the last frontier good luck.

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