Heimo Korth lives year-round in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 19 million acres of Alaskan interior that Jimmy Carter placed off-limits to trappers, oil companies, and lodge developers in 1980. Six families were grandfathered in and allowed to keep cabins on the land; Korth is the only one still there full-time, hunting, trapping, and building his own shelter through the winter. Hosts John Martin and Thomas Morton travel out to his cabin and stay with him, filming the daily mechanics of the life: setting traps, reading weather, handling encounters with animals that could kill him without much effort. The six-part series follows a rough chronology, from the first night in the cold through the practical education of learning to survive there, and it does not skip the hard turns, including the death of Korth's daughter. What comes through is not a survivalist stunt but the accumulated skill of someone who has done this for years, alone, at the edge of a boundary the U.S. government drew and mostly enforces by absence.