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After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.

A New Zealander and an Irishman quit their jobs in San Francisco, cash in their savings and walk 2,626 miles from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail.