Plot: The HISTORY Channel's hit survival series "Alone" returns for an epic season 12 on Thursday, June 12 at 9pm ET/PT and heads to Africa! For the first time in series history, ten new survivalists navigate searing heat, foul water, and unpredictable storms in the Great Karoo Desert and face off against exotic animals including warthogs, scorpions, venomous snakes, baboons, Cape buffalo, wildebeest and more.