Mountain Men

2012
4.8
519 reviews
TV-PG
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Season 12 episodes (18)

1 Unbreakable
24/8/23
Eustace hunts for his winter meat in the pre-dawn hours. Jake harvests a deer with bow and arrow and Tom helps his friend Paul prepare for trapping season.
2 First Kill
31/8/23
Tom instructs young Hank on some essential Mountain Man skills. Newlyweds Jake and Anika hunt elk in the bone chilling cold; Paul takes on an infestation of nuisance badgers; Ray uses bushcraft technology to haul his elk meat out of the backcountry.
3 Gunpowder and Lead
7/9/23
Tom packs a traditional muzzleloader on a winter deer hunt with Sean and Hank. Jake and Anika complete a successful elk hunt with a backbreaking pack out.
4 Breaking Wild
14/9/23
Eustace and his neighbor train a stubborn stallion. Jake and his team of dogs successfully run off their first mountain lion of the season. Paul tracks and kills a young buck.
5 Lion Alley
21/9/23
Tom and Nancy make a special buckskin vest for Hank. Jake's snowmobile breaks down in the heart of Lion Alley. Paul takes on a neighbor's beaver and muskrat problem.
6 Ice Cold
5/10/23
Jake spends the night in the mountains after his snowmobile breaks down. Paul traps for mink and pine marten. Eustace helps a friend buy and assemble an antique sawmill.
7 Mountain Marathon
12/10/23
Tom begins the countdown to his 80th birthday. Jake and Anika tow a broken snowmobile down the mountain but run into fresh lion tracks and are back on the hunt.
8 Backcountry Battle
19/10/23
Kidd and Harry traverse through intense whitewater to reach the spawning grounds of steelhead trout. Jake loses his dogs after they follow lion tracks into remote and unfamiliar territory.
9 Untethered
26/10/23
Jake and his dogs tree three cats in one day. Paul prepares his haul of winter fur for market, and explores a new piece of land to call his own. Eustace builds a boat lift using massive logs and a block and tackle pulley.
10 King of the Mountain
2/11/23
On his 80th birthday Tom builds a teepee, while Nancy plans him a surprise party. Jake runs a mountain lion off the highway during calving season.
11 Alaska: Land of Promise
9/11/23
Marty returns to his trap line to find it destroyed by wildfire. Mike hunts an elusive herd of Kodiak elk. Lauro and Neil Eklund journey down the Yukon River by log raft on a quest for beaver and fish.
12 Alaska: Flying High
16/11/23
Marty instructs his teenage daughter, Noah, as she pilots the bush plane. Mike hunts a herd of Kodiak bison, and donates the meat to friends in town.
13 Grizzly Standoff
30/11/23
In the Interior, Marty Meierotto puts the stalk on a group of caribou, but the hunt takes a wild turn when a family of grizzly bears comes charging toward his camp.
14 In The Crosshairs
30/11/23
Marty embarks on a moose hunt, luring a bull within his sights. Meanwhile, Mike's relentless pursuit of foxes yields a collection of prize pelts. As Bret sets his sights on trapping wolves, Ivy balances duties at the homestead and skins the day's haul.
15 Alaska: Cold Pursuit
7/12/23
Marty has a near death experience when he plummets through ice on a frozen waterway. Meanwhile, Lauro journeys deep into the untouched backcountry by dog team to establish an expedition camp.
16 Alaska: The Fire Within
14/12/23
Buried under record snowfall, Marty fights to heat his cabin and maintain his trapline. Lauro and Neil brave the icy Yukon River with their sled dogs, while Mike ingeniously crafts a driftwood windmill to power his homestead.
17 Alaska: Snowbound
21/12/23
Marty digs his bush plane out from a deep snow drift to preserve his one lifeline in the bush. Bret and Ivy escape an avalanche from their cabin roof before embarking on their journey back to home base.
18 Alaska: Born to Run
28/12/23
Marty escapes a blizzard and flies home from the trapline to reunite with his family. Lauro runs a 100 mile dog race and gets closer to qualifying for the Iditarod.

About this show

It's a race against winter for men who make their living off the land - hunting, fishing and trapping to put food on the table. For Mountain Men, survival is predicated on using ancient skills perfected over hundreds of years. HISTORY follows the lives of four American men and their families as they strive for the sustenance they need to make it through the harshest season.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
519 reviews
Lauren G
20 June 2015
To answer the comment below about the gasifier, as someone who's studied WW2 history I can attest that yes, it is a valid method of powering vehicles and was used during the war when gas was rationed. It's not used by more people because as is shown in the episode, hydrogen gas won't power a vehicle to move very quickly, plus the gasifier requires a lot of wood to power a vehicle over long distances.
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deborah elliott
20 January 2022
These "mountain men" are thoroughly modern people. There are some serious fake aspects to this show, which have been exposed. See "The Biggest Scandals of the History Channel" on YouTube.
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Naomi Jones
5 September 2014
I live in the same area as Tom and have met him and Nancy, they are excellent people.The show makes bigger issues of where we live than it really is.But it's a beautiful part of our country and I am blessed to live here and enjoy it :)
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