Win the Wilderness: Alaska is a British television competition, produced by

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, in which six British couples compete each other in a series of rounds, attempting to impress the elderly couple owning a

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near the

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Ose mountain

The prize of the competition is the deed to the Alaskan homestead of Duane and Rena Ose. Duane Ose hiked to the homestead in 1982. He claims to have been the last homesteader in the US filing a claim under the

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. The Oses built the homestead they call Ose Mountain up by hand using trunks felled from their forest. The homestead is about 100 miles away from the nearest road and can be accessed only with a plane to its own airfield. After the show the winners, Mark and Emily, first were on good terms with the previous owners of the homestead, but more recently the previous owner, Duane Ose, is reported to have been demanding the homestead back.

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* * * 2020 British television series debuts 2020 British television series endings 2020s British reality television series BBC Two original programming British English-language television shows Television series by ITV Studios {{UK-reality-tv-prog-stub