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On Wednesday night, Trent Felton, a 40-year-old former Navy chef from Tasmania, won the fourth season of Alone Australia after outlasting his last two challengers, Clint, a 57-year-old farmer from New Zealand, and Jasper, a 24-year-old permaculture teacher from WA.<\/p>\n

Trent had survived in the wilderness of Sapmi, in northern Finland, for 52 days, setting a record for the number of fish caught in a single season, and bursting into tears (just as he\u2019d predicted he would) when he received the surprise tap on his shoulder from wife Emma, who flew from the other end of the world to be the one to break the news that he\u2019d seen off the nine others in the competition, and would be $250,000 richer for doing so.<\/p>\n

Trent opens up to senior culture writer Karl Quinn about what he missed, what he learnt, and what he couldn\u2019t wait to eat when he got home.<\/p>\n

\"TrentTrent Felton, 40, won the season after surviving 52 days in the Sapmi region of northern Finland.SBS<\/p>\n

Well, Trent, let me start by saying congratulations and well done. How does it feel to have won such a tough and lonely endurance test?<\/p>\n

Oh, mate, it\u2019s just amazing. It was one of the best feelings of my life, something I\u2019ll never forget, and to be honest, I\u2019d love to do it all over again. It was an amazing adventure, better than I ever thought it would be. I was like a little boy out there again, Karl. Like I could just do what I wanted to do. You know, life at home is pretty hectic when you\u2019ve got three young kids [Jack, 11, Stella, 9, and Leo, 6] and your own business [he works as a chef and as a landscaper], so it was a bloody good parenting break, to be honest.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about food. What was the first thing you ate when you got back?<\/p>\n

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My wife cooked me a chicken parmy with chips, eggs, and some fresh bread, and that was so good. So good.<\/p>\n

How much of your brain space out there is taken up with thoughts of food?<\/p>\n

[Before I went to Sapmi] I was eating up to eight meals a day, trying to pack weight on, so by the time I got there I was sick of food. I\u2019d been eating that many eggs I nearly didn\u2019t want to go down to feed my chickens. But a couple of weeks in, my love for food started coming back. You start thinking about food, and then you literally start dreaming about food. It\u2019s crazy. Every single night you\u2019re laying in your sleeping bag \u2013 you\u2019re in bed early because it was dark and if you stay up you\u2019re just burning calories \u2013 and I\u2019d just lay there, sometimes for four or five hours before I went to sleep, and you just can\u2019t help but think about food.<\/p>\n

Was the chicken parmigiana the thing you fantasised about most?<\/p>\n

Not initially. I still remember the order: it was a homemade pizza, then it went to a chicken burger, and then it went to aeroplane food. I could hear aeroplanes in my area, and I kept thinking, \u201cJust drop me out a meal\u201d. I was desperate for anything with a bit of salt in it. But it was chicken parmy towards the end. It\u2019s kind of inspired me to get that love for food back, and I\u2019ve been writing a cookbook that\u2019ll be ready in another month. It\u2019s not Michelin-star kind of food, just food that people can make for their families, easy, nice food. No survival food \u2013 no boiled fish or jerky in this one.<\/p>\n

\"WifeWife Emma flew from Tasmania to tell her husband he had won. SBS<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, you had enormous success with your smokehouse, which you used to preserve fish. But you had a lot less success with your efforts to build a fireplace inside your shelter. For a while there, as your home filled with smoke, it looked like you were going to turn yourself into jerky.<\/p>\n

Yeah, that was crazy. I definitely didn\u2019t prioritise fire before going onto the land, which was a rookie mistake. I did see on the US series a guy do a fire in his shelter like my first one, I did a bit of research on it, but I couldn\u2019t find exactly how he did it, so it was a bit of a gamble out there. I was like, \u201cShe\u2019ll be right, I\u2019ll just cut a hole in the top of my shelter\u201d. And then that didn\u2019t work, so I cut a bigger hole, and I was like, \u201cOK, now I\u2019ve got to fix that\u201d. But it was funny to watch.<\/p>\n

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How much stuff were you able to try out before you went?<\/p>\n

I\u2019d made gill nets and a fishing rod and lures and did a lot of research on clothing and food that I could eat over that side of the world. But I\u2019m in Tassie, so you\u2019re lucky to be able to cut down one tree, let alone go somewhere and cut down 50, so [making a shelter] was something that I thought, I\u2019m just going to try it when I\u2019m out there. Even the smoker \u2013 that\u2019s the first smoker I\u2019ve ever made. I was working until a week before we left, because obviously the bills still come in and you\u2019re trying to get as much money as you can in the bank before you go away. I wasn\u2019t really in a position to take a month or two off work and practice all these things. I was talking to a few of the other contestants the other night, and they were in the same kind of boat. So a lot of the stuff I did out there was first time, and some of it worked, and yeah, some of it definitely didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\"FeltonFelton eight up to eight meals a day before the competition began, to bulk up (left). By the end he had shed most of that body fat.SBS<\/p>\n

Well, the fishing worked remarkably well \u2013 you set a record haul (44 fish caught) for the Australian season, while some of your fellow contestants really struggled. What was the secret?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve trout-fished in Tassie my whole life, which probably does give me a bit of an advantage. A lot of the others fish, too, but normally saltwater, and they\u2019re totally different kinds of fishing. My preparation going in was making lures that I thought might work; I\u2019d sit there just making lure after lure after lure for hours and hours and hours, and then go and try them all and see which ones worked. I wasn\u2019t allowed to take any lures with me, though. You\u2019re allowed to take hooks and sinkers, but I had to make lures out of the things I took, or if I found feathers or anything like that. Watching it, it looks like it was easy, but sometimes I\u2019d fish for hours and hours and hours without anything. I had to wind my reel in with my finger, and the eyes on my rod are icing up from the wet line coming back through them, some days my finger felt like it was just gonna fall off.<\/p>\n

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You did four years in the Navy. Did that experience help you in any way on Alone?<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to me before joining the Navy, I suffer from severe seasickness; I probably should have joined the army or the air force. There were so many times where I contemplated quitting because I was spewing between 12 and 18 times in a 24-hour period, and I was like, \u201cOh my god, I shouldn\u2019t have done this.\u201d But I suppose that\u2019s the grit and resilience that I showed a little bit of on Alone. Like, I didn\u2019t quit. I got through my four years and got out of there.<\/p>\n

What in this experience are you most proud of?<\/p>\n

Creating the whole thing, the whole experience. That if I die tomorrow, my kids can watch that forever, and they can show their kids. Until now, my kids haven\u2019t really seen me achieve too much, because when they were born I stopped playing sport. I\u2019ve been a proud dad of every single one of them multiple times, but there\u2019s never really been a time where they could go, \u201cGeez, I\u2019m really proud of my dad for for doing that.\u201d And they are so proud. That\u2019s probably the best thing I\u2019ve got out of this. And the money, obviously.<\/p>\n

Would you do it again?<\/p>\n

I said to the producer [Riima Daher] the other day, \u201cI don\u2019t know where you\u2019re going for the next one, but if anyone pulls out, ring me up and I\u2019ll definitely go again\u201d. If my family was all right with it, I\u2019d go and do it again tomorrow, because the one thing I didn\u2019t get out of this whole experience is that all the other participants were done, either mentally or physically, and I guess there\u2019ll always be the question hanging over my head, how long could I go? I had enough food for 80 or 90 days, so that wouldn\u2019t have been an issue. But would the other elements have taken me out? I\u2019ll probably think about that forever.<\/p>\n

Alone Australia is now streaming on SBS On Demand.<\/p>\n

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