Alaska: The Last Frontier

Meet the Kilcher family, who live on a 600-acre homestead in Alaska. With another brutal winter approaching, and bears having killed two of the familys cattle, they are forced to pin all of their hopes of surviving the winter on one last hunting trip.

The storms hit earlier than expected; search for a newborn calf and its mother; Otto builds shelter for his herd.

Otto gets creative in beating the frozen soil when moving the outhouse.

The Kilchers race through the last few days of fall before winter hits.

With summer half over, the Kilchers head out fishing, but its not for fun... at least, not entirely. They need hundreds of pounds of fish to eat and barter with during winter. Each couple has their own time-proven technique for catching salmon, halibut and trout.

Fall arrives; the Kilchers scramble to finish their winter prep. Otto confronts a predator killing calves from inside his herd. Atz Lee and Jane catch and smoke salmon in their secret fish camp. Eivin uses a samurai sword to prepare Thanksgiving dinner.

For the Kilchers, necessity truly is the mother of invention and recycling takes on a whole new level -- from bone yard scavengers and make-do parts to tasty roadkill suppers. And its not just the Kilcher men who have to be tough and resourceful.

Otto gets creative to beat the frozen soil when he realizes he must move the outhouse, now. Eivin takes Eve on her first deerhunt on Afognak Island, which is teeming with wild animals including awake bears. Atz and sons gather trees for a big new project.

The Kilchers race through the last few days of fall before winter finally hits, prepping the hunter and cattleman cabins, winterizing the bee hive, sorting the root cellar, bottling the raspberry mead, and creating a new field with an excavator and barge.

In the Season 5 premiere, the Kilchers confront the realities of the changing Alaskan climate; and Atz Lee enlists Atz Sr., Otto, Eivin, Bonnie and Jane to help with his dream to build an all-new and remote homestead.

Spring arrives on the homestead. Included: Atz and Atz Lee attempt to tame wild stallions at the head of the bay; at the same time, Otto, Eivin, Charlotte and Jane must innovate to protect their calves and overcome threats to their herd.

The Kilcher family brace for summer on the homestead; Atz Lee treks to forbidding Perl Island for an emergency crash course in wilderness survival; and Jane fights with creatures from the deep for food.

The challenges of living on the remote and rugged Kilcher homestead are sometimes unforgiving. Life in this raw, untamed wilderness means keeping family close and firearms closer.

A hot summer threatens the Kilcher cattle; Atz Lee joins forces with a remote homesteading master to learn how to tame the frontier; Jane comes face-to-face with a bear; Shane and Kelli make progress on their cabin; and Findlay gets a safe place to play.

Otto and Charlotte set out on an urgent rescue mission; Atz Sr., Eivin, Shane and Nikos come together to help Atz Lee.

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 isnt easy. The Kilchers say goodbye to Bruce Willard as Eivin & Eve welcome new life with Findlay.

Otto and Charlotte build a staircase at the homestead. Elsewhere, Atz Lee comes to an important realization about his recovery while Eiven and Eve welcome a new family member.

The Kilchers kick off a complete homestead overhaul; blindsided by a massive snowstorm, the family uses every piece of heavy machinery in their arsenal to ensure the survival of future generations.

Otto is forced to the edge after a chimney fire threatens to destroy his cabin; Eivin and Eve burn up dangerous brush piles threatening their family; Atz Lee and Jane embark on a dangerous ice fishing mission and end up on thin ice.

The Kilchers join forces to conquer big projects; tensions flare when Otto and Jane journey to Kodiak Island to rescue a herd of wild buffalo; Eivin and Eve tackle an urgent roof repair; Atz Sr. and Atz Lee help Shane on his long overdue cabin build.

Atz Lee and Charlotte rush to save the life of a stuck cow before its too late; a father-son shrimping trip turns deadly when Otto and his sons must outrun a colossal caving glacier; Eve and Jane fish for salmon for their family.

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The Kilchers take on some of the biggest jobs in homestead history as one team tries to pick up the historic Octagon building and move it to safety while another strives to finish Shanes multi-year cabin build before winter once again stops them cold.

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Otto and his son Eivins hunt for Ptarmigan ends in disaster; Atz Lee and Jane tour Janes past and travel to remote Adak Island in search of Caribou; Atz Sr.s pioneer spirit leads him to an abandoned barge.

Atz Lee and Jane rush to aid a fellow homesteader; Atz Sr. searches for a remote spot to anchor his floating homestead; Otto, Eivin and Levi rebuild a homestead hot tub; Charlotte takes extreme measures to protect her herd from predators.

Otto creates a calf caboose for his spring cattle drive at the Head of the Bay; Atz Lee and Jane bring sustainable power to their remote cabin; Atz Sr. builds a smoker to preserve the meat from his epic hunt; Levi renovates his childhood cabin.

The Kilcher family takes Thanksgiving to Atz Sr.s floating homestead, the Yuletide; steeped in family tradition, each person brings something special to share, from homestead dishes to the dinner table itself.

Singer Jewel Kilcher throws her son a coming-of-age celebration on the Yuletide; Atz Lee battles worsening weather to help Grady build a homestead on Perl Island.

Charlotte and August build a cat patio to keep their house cats from killing the local animals.

Atz Lee and Atz Sr. take Jane on an epic hunt on horseback in the foothills; Eivin builds a one-of-a-kind motorized cart for Findlay; and Otto, Charlotte, and August race to repair a fence breach after their cattle escape.

The fall cattle roundup takes an electrifying turn when a horse gets tangled in electric wire; Eivin and Levi go on a rock-climbing expedition to secure access to a valuable, new hunting ground; Atz Sr. takes Bonnie on an epic hunting date.

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

While collecting coal on the beach after a storm, Eivin & Eve find a capsized boat and immediately begin looking for survivors. Otto, Charlotte & August build a shelter for their calves and Jane brings the family together with a new spring tradition.

When Jane and Charlotte get word of a sick calf at the Head of the Bay, they trek through bear country to protect their herd. Three generations of Kilchers build a line shack on Perl Island, and Otto has a surprise for Charlotte.

In the midst of Thanksgiving preparations, a baby seal needs help getting back to its family in time for dinner. Later, Eivin and August engineer a hay baler that will literally take a load off their backs.

The Kilchers backcountry winter wonderland celebration is threatened when unseasonably warm weather brings rain to the homestead. But its not the first or last time that the family must cope with chaos on the homestead.

Honoring tradition and the ways of the past, the next generation of Kilcher men venture out on their first big game hunts. Later, the family rushes to complete unfinished projects before winters arrival.

Eivin guides August on his first-ever deer hunt, and Etienne goes on his first big game hunt. Plus, Atz Sr. and Otto attempt to reassemble a historic barn.

Eivin and Eve build an epic homestead-style treehouse. Atz Lee, Jane and Etienne stock their freezers with trout while Otto and August refurbish an old tractor.

An unprecedented new chapter kicks off on the homestead as the Kilchers film themselves coping with Alaskas stay-at-home order amid a growing pandemic. Resources must be stretched, homeschooling proves difficult and Atz Lees PTSD resurfaces.

A flood threatens Kilcher road and Eve struggles to homeschool.

The Kilchers take advantage of high summers extra daylight to forge ahead.

To protect the homestead from wildfires, Otto dynamites a reservoir; Charlotte goes fishing with Jane but finds its not for her; after falling behind on the Fox Cabin, Atz Sr. enlists the help of his family to get back on track.

The Kilchers finish Atz Sr.s legacy rebuild and Eivin suffers a loss.

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

After his brush with death, Otto has a long, painful road of recovery ahead. Eivin and August bear the burden of their fathers injury.

Eivin considers expanding the Kilchers reach by becoming a bush pilot; Tela takes Alysse dipnetting; Janes cousin Kate comes to visit from Texas.

Before leaving for college, Etienne endures a homestead right of passage in the wilderness and August finally knows what he wants to do with his future.