Nate competed on Cook Islands, the season that opened by dividing its cast into four tribes by ethnicity before reshuffling the entire board. He started on Manihiki and proved durable, lasting 27 days and pushing all the way to ninth.
By the time he went out, the game had been through tribe dissolutions, swaps, and a merge, and Nate had survived most of it on relationships and reliability. A solid, deep run in one of the most twist-heavy seasons of the early era.












