Building Alaska

The teams set their course for building cabins in the various areas of the Alaskan frontier.

As the summer season starts to thaw out in Alaska, the builders get work underway. But their pre-planning doesn't make perfect. The Alaskan elements are stubborn at all three build sites, but a little ingenuity goes a long way.

Each of the three builders face adversity as the homes take shape. Lee struggles after losing a month to bad weather. Chuck fights against fishing leaves-of-absence, and Jim makes the 500-mile trek to Chicken.

Chuck Gerwig's site is oddly quiet. Disaster has struck. His righthand man, Ryan Beachy, has been tragically killed in a motorcycle accident. Now his build is suspended and a decision needs to be made, to continue or not.

After battling the tragedy of the loss of his righthand man, Ryan Beachy, Chuck Gerwig is back in the saddle and ready to finish the job that he and Ryan started months earlier.

The three builders are finding no reprieve from the task at hand and, at one camp, tempers flare.

With winter looming, the three builders find that even the smallest mistakes have big consequences.

Winter has arrived and the race is over. Who survived the ultimate test of Building Alaska.