Agreed it would be way easier to survive as part of a small tribe rather than fully alone, but I wouldn't use the TV show Alone as proof. They purposely pick so

Agreed it would be way easier to survive as part of a small tribe rather than fully alone, but I wouldn't use the TV show Alone as proof. They purposely pick some of the least hospitable places for life, drop people off at the end of fall with no summer to stock up/prepare, contestants have to follow all the local regulations around how/what game they hunt, and (most importantly) nobody is allowed a gun. Plenty of small-time trappers and other pioneers survived on their own during the westward expansion!