The BEST episodes of Alaska: The Last Frontier

#1 - Do or Die

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/2016

The Kilchers find themselves unprepared for winter's arrival. Led by Otto & Charlotte, the family's cattle trek a cold & deadly path. Shane risks losing a year's progress on his unfinished cabin, while the family embarks in two massive hunts.

#2 - Snowy Roundup

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/2015

At the head of the bay, Atz Sr. has wild game in his sights. Otto & Charlotte face disaster as the tides overpower the herd on the 30-mile journey to the homestead. Atz Lee & Jane tackle a long-overdue task to secure their cabin for the winter.

#3 - Marital Maintenance

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/2014

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.

#4 - Parlors and Poop Chutes

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2013

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.

#5 - Outhouses, Cow Bras and Bears, Oh My!

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2013

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.

#6 - Spring Delicacy

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2013

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.

#7 - Circle of Life

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/2014

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.

#8 - Father-Son Ingenuity

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2013

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.

#9 - Spring Has Sprung

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2013

Springtime on the homestead; Atz and the family goes on a black bear hunt; Atz, Sr.'s confidence wavers; Otto gives CPR to calves; Eve plants the family garden.

#10 - Hunt in the Clouds

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2013

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.

#11 - Call of the Wild

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/2014

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.

#12 - Greener Pastures

Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2019

With predators stalking the homestead, the need for safe grazing land is greater than ever; Atz Sr. and Atz Lee head to Perl Island to begin plans for a new pasture; Otto and Eivin set to work transporting a small herd to the island by boat.

#13 - A Prickly Situation

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/2013

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.

#14 - Homestead Heartache

Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/17/2021

The Fox Cabin nears completion; Atz Sr. unites seven Kilcher siblings to finish the interior of his legacy rebuild; Jane, August and Etienne embark on the final fishing trip of the year; Eivin suffers a devastating loss.

#15 - Fox Cabin Finale

Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/31/2021

Atz Sr. reveals his Fox Cabin legacy build after months of backbreaking effort. As winter begins, Eivin scrambles to complete a vital project he'd fallen behind on. Jane and Atz Lee attempt to airlift a piano to their remote cabin before snowfall.

#16 - Hunting Season Begins

Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/2018

Eve butchers chickens with her children to teach them about the circle of life; Eivin builds a shelter for his trusty horse to protect it from the freeze; Atz Lee and Jane warm up their remote cabin; Atz Sr. goes on a solo hunt.

#17 - The Next Chapter

Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/2022

#18 - Cabin Fever

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2013

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

#19 - Cattle Drive

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/2012

Otto and family battle the elements and predators to drive their cattle to the summer pasture. A missing calf causes Otto and Eivin to head off for a dangerous late night rescue mission. Atz Lee and Jane build a makeshift greenhouse from cast off supplies.

#20 - Legend of “Terrible Island”

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/2012

Atz Lee and Eivin travel 160 miles and brave the bears of "Terrible Island" to hunt deer. Otto refuses to admit defeat and will use all the blackpowder he has to remove a pesky stump blocking his progress. Eve helps Charlotte solve a swarming bee problem.

#21 - Land of the Midnight Sun

Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/29/2020

The Kilchers take advantage of the high summer's extra daylight to forge ahead. Atz Lee uses a helicopter to haul in vital equipment. Jane and Charlotte battle an angry nest of wasps, while Eivin fells trees and clears land for an upgraded chicken coop.

#22 - Of Moose and Men

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/2013

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.

#23 - He Might Die

Season 11 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/2022

Otto is trampled by a cow during a severe snowstorm and must be rescued before he succumbs to his life-threatening injuries.

#24 - August's Choice

Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/2022

August must make some hard choices about his future; to help him clear his mind, Eivin brings his brother on a trip to Red Mountain; Jane and her cousin take Charlotte off the homestead for the first time since Otto's injury.

#25 - Rusted and Busted

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2019

Otto looks into the condition of his barge after the winter, Even and Eivin lear land using explosives.