Life Below Zero Chip Hailstone Family, Wife And Daughters

Chip Hailstone family has not settled in the unforgiving wilderness of Alaska. Hailstone originally is from Montana.

Most of Chip’s fans and followers might know him for his appearance in National Geography Channel’s docuseries Life Below Zero and as a resident of  Kobuk River in Noorvik in Alaska. However, he was born and raised in Montana in his childhood.

Hailstone went to Alaska at the age of 19 years old and never returned. Chip’s real name is Edward V Hailstone and he was born to his parents Daniel Hailstone and Mary Hailstone.

He does not speak about his parents or his life growing up in a much more developed and warmer part of the United States of America. Forfeiting his life of relative comfort, both development and climate-wise, he has settled in Alaska with his loving wife and shares 5 children together. 

Hailstone shares updates about his day-to-day life and remembers his past with his beloved partner and kids on his Twitter account. Chip also appears to be an avid music listener and has shared several songs by heavy metal and hard rock bands on his Twitter account. 

Chip Hailstone wife Agnes Hailstone is a native of Alaska. Agnes belongs to the Inupiaq tribe of Noorvik.

Agnes is the primary focus of the Hailstone segment in the show Life Below Zero. She has family ties to the unforgiving Alaskan cold and wilderness and her tribe has inhabited the region for several generations. 

She is depicted as a survival expert in the show as she has the most knowledge of the environment and surrounding. She learned traditional survival skills from her parents and ancestors as a child and has put the skills to good use.

Agnes is an expert in wielding Ulu, a traditional Alaskan Knife that can cut through most things if operated by experienced hands, according to Chip’s tweet. She also did not hesitate to take on the duty of hunting and gathering for the winter while Chip was put behind bars in 2017, according to Distractify. 

Agnes’s chin tattoo is best recognized by the viewers of Life Below Zero and her followers. According to a Wikipedia article on Inupiaq tribe tattoos, they represent several things based on the position and shape of the tattoo. A line tattoo on the chin represents the woman who has had her period and entered her adulthood, Agnes has the same kind of tattoo.

Chip met Agnes several years after moving to Alaska. According to The Cinemaholic, Agnes is three years younger than Chip and was already married when the pair met for the first time. She shares two sons with her first husband. 

Agnes and Chip Hailstone got married circa 1992 and have since welcomed 5 daughters. Much about their wedding has not come to the surface yet, but the pair appears to be blissfully married and share images from their daily life on Chip’s Twitter account frequently. 

Chip Hailstone and Anges Hailstone share five daughters in their three decades of marriage. Agnes also has two boys from her previous relationship.

Their daughters are Tinmiaq, Iriqtaq, Mary, Caroline, and Qutan Hailstone. Chip Hailstone’s daughters Tinmiaq and Iriqtaq received homeschooling in the beginning but were later sent off for formal education to a nearby school in Noovrik. 

The remaining three daughters stay close to the family and might be receiving homeschooling as well before being sent off for formal education. The kids are also good athletes and play basketball, according to The Cinemaholic.

Agnes’s sons Douglas and Jon are from her previous marriage but Chip has never discriminated between his five daughters and the two sons. He loves them and has accepted them as their own. 

Although Douglas and Jon live “out in the world,” they make frequent visits to meet and help their mother and stepfather in need. They have appeared several times on the show Life Below Zero as well. 

Apart from the pair’s children, their daughter Caroline’s boyfriend Skyler Wells has also made frequent appearances on the show. According to the Life Below Zero Facebook post, Skyler joined the Hailstone family after hunting down a caribou. 

Chip And Anges Are Grandparents

Chip and Anges’s eldest daughter Tinmiaq was blessed with a daughter in 2020.

The pair become grandparents after being married for nearly three decades in 2020 when their firstborn welcomed a daughter. Details about their granddaughter are not known and Tinmiaq’s baby daddy has also not made an appearance on the show yet.

Chip also has a grandson Sabbi. He has shared quite a few videos with his grandson on his YouTube channel. The grandfather and grandson duo are seen going for a casual walk or egg picking. 

However, Chip has not provided any details about Sabbi’s parents to his viewers. It is unknown if Sabbi is one of his daughter’s sons or from his stepsons. 

Chip Hailstone net worth is $100 thousand dollars. He gets paid $4,500 per episode filming Life Below Zero.

According to Celebrity Net Worth, the Hailstones have a combined fortune of $100k. The pair made their fortune bartering the fish they catch and homemade crafts they make from the bones and skins of the animals. 

Apart from filming Life Below Zero, the pair does not have a stable job or source of income to add to their wealth. They rely on their hunting skills to put food on their table, the family hunts and gathers during the short arctic spring and preserve the meat for the long and unforgiving winter.

They also move about tracking wildlife and prey to hunt down and make a delicious meal out of it. According to Chip and Agnes’s profile on Nat Geo, they hunt down almost anything that is living and provide meat including bears, bison, wolf, salmon, seals, and sometimes even whales. 

Expert salvagers, Chip and Anges do not let go of anything to waste and find a purpose for all the things coming out of their prey. They use bones to make decorative and functional tools, skins to make warm clothes and beds, and meat as food. They dry up meat to preserve them which lasts for years in the freezing cold temperature of the arctic circle.