Things have in recent days escalated to what we all fear are life and death levels of danger, she said. On another side note, we have a former doctor who has turned professional witness for lawyers dealing with malpractice running to be a US Senatorapparently the former doctor lost a medical malpractice lawsuit and is now a professional at witnessing it. Back to the wild. Though the population of the place they now call home is just around 5,000, they still had to make a lot of adjustments that they have had to make. Currently, they have made Redwood Falls, Minnesota, their home. In just 48 hours, Duane and Rena will reveal which couple should take over their home on Ose Mountain, but first the couples must prove their worth. Wood for a multi-story cabin requires far more labor. Unlike a young Chris McCandless, the subject of a now-famous tale of struggle and death in the Alaska wilderness. The house and property are legally owned by Mark and Emily , full stop! Who cares with whom Duane chooses to share his life with, honestly. The concept is pretty easy to grasp, although unique. Ellie-Mae Blair, the woman who kept an old man alive for 10 days in the Alaska wilderness/Facebook. you only wish you could be abused against such a beautiful body jealous n ignorant!! The family worries that if he goes into the wilderness again it could be for the last time because though once a highly capable woodsman, he is now old and frail. However, due to their declining health, the Oses needed to move somewhere closer to fully staffed hospitals and decided to give their house up as a prize in a reality show, which came to be "Win the Wilderness." At the age of 44, Duane travelled with his 15-year-old son on a 57-mile journey in 1986 to locate a few acres in Alaska that he could claim as his own under the federal Homestead Act of 1862. He did so with his wife, Rena, and both of them have since emerged as role models for wilderness adventure and self-sufficiency.