Her 45-year-old mother died within three months of being diagnosed with lung cancer and Strayed, at 22, became “unmoored by sorrow”. It’s a physical adventure thriller fused with an emotionally charged history.įour years before she first set foot on the trail Strayed found herself in a bad place. Intercutting the wilderness adventure is a parallel tale in which the story of how Strayed came to be on the PCT in the first place unfolds. One story, set in the present, is about Strayed’s epic hike and the challenges she faced, from encounters with bears and rattlesnakes and men with guns, to the camaraderie of fellow hikers from the exhausting frustration of reaching a dry waterhole and to the despair of losing a boot over a crevice. The book has a dual narrative running through it. For three months in 1995 she hiked 1,100 miles “in order to save myself”. In Wild, Strayed takes us on the PCT with her. It’s a riveting tale of her experiences hiking a gruelling section of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), a wilderness path that runs across nine mountain ranges extending from Mexico through California, Oregon and Washington to Canada.
Strayed shot to global fame in 2012 with her memoir, described by the New York Times as “a profound meditation on the nature of grief and survival”. Her excitement about the movie is palpable. She joins me after a breakfast script meeting with Nick Hornby, who is adapting her global bestseller Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found for the big screen. I meet Cheryl Strayed in the offices of her British publisher in Russell Square.
Farhana Gani, Entertainment Editor, met Cheryl Strayed just as the film went into production. Reese Witherspoon, its producer and star, is nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, and Laura Dern, playing Strayed’s mother, is nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Wild, the adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir about her 1,100-mile walk to redemption across the Pacific Crest Trail, opened in cinemas to rave reviews.
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