Who is Joel Van Der Loon?
Joel Van Der Loon is an American Primitive Skills School Owner who was featured in Alone Season 7. He will most recently appear as a contestant in Alone: The Skills Challenge season 1. The brand new show is set to debut on Thursday, August 4th at 10:30 pm ET/PT, moving to its 10 pm ET/PT timeslot.
Joel Van Der Loon’s Husband
Der Loon is happily married to his better half whose identity is withheld from social media. The duo shares a son though his details are not available. Joel resides in Oregon with his wife, son, and dog.
Joel Van Der Loon Education
Van Der Loon has learned primitive skills from the Maasai herdsman, Hadzabe hunter-gatherers, and Rama Indians in Nicaragua.
Joel Van Der Loon Parents, Siblings
Der Loon’s experience in bushcraft began in childhood growing up in South Africa and living off-grid in Tanzania, East Africa. He grew up bouncing between a small sugar cane society in South Africa and off-the-grid in the Tanzanian bush prior to moving to Sisters via California four years ago. Joel is the son of John, a cave diver who survived being lost at sea, and his wife, Michele (mother) who is a professional bodybuilder, and built a home in the African bush. He has a sister. His parents separated.
Joel Van Der Loon Height and Weight
Der Loon has an approximate height of 6 feet 2 inches and weighs around 91 kg.
Joel Van Der Loon Nationality/Ethnicity
Der Loon is an American by birth and holds unknown ethnicity.
Joel Van Der Loon Wikipedia
Der Loon’s experience in bushcraft began in childhood growing up in South Africa and living off-grid in Tanzania, East Africa. He grew up bouncing between a small sugar cane society in South Africa and off-the-grid in the Tanzanian bush prior to moving to Sisters via California four years ago. Over the last 12 years, Joel has traversed through forty countries and crossed oceans as an engineer on various seafaring vessels, exploring some of the world’s most remote places. He has fished, hiked, hunted, and explored just about every type of ecosystem, and is coached in the desert, jungle, alpine, and temperate survival methods. Moreover, Joel owns and runs a wilderness survival school and has taught families, children, celebrities, and the military. He has learned primitive skills from Maasai herdsman, the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers, and Rama Indians in Nicaragua.
Joel Van Der Loon Alone: The Skills Challenge sn 1
Der Loon is one of the competitors who will appear in Alone: The Skills Challenge season 1. In the show, former Alone contestants compete head-to-head in creative build challenges devised by one of their friends. They’ll have to use only basic tools and the natural resources around them to contest tasks such as creating a hand-crafted oven, an elevated shelter, and a watercraft.
The returning adventurers for Alone: The Skills Challenge include Lucas Miller from season 1, North and Rodriguez as well as Britt Ahart from seasons 3 and 5, Jordan Jonas, the champion of season 6, and Alone Season 8 champion Clay Hayes.