Nathan Olsen

Nathan Olsen lives in southern Idaho with his wife Erica and a blended family of ten children and two grand-children. This big family lifestyle is nothing new for Nathan, who grew up in a large Mormon family, and whose brother, Luke Olsen, competed in Alone Season 10. As a young introvert, Nathan learned to cope with living in a high density home by frequently escaping to the surrounding wilderness of southern Idaho. At age ten, he took his desire to be alone a step further by convincing his parents to let him homeschool and become a sheep herder. A typical homeschool day involved packing some books and leading his flock of Suffolk to graze the canyon upstream from the family home. “My first home school assignment was to find an arrowhead, draw a picture of it in place, and write a story about how it got there. ” Nathan feels grateful to have parents who encouraged each child to develop their interests from a young age. At age fifteen, Nathan enrolled in college and earned a Bachelor...