In 201(//$3, an;% ]=Austral% ian man a few months shy 
of\^ ^t! ur++%ni(*(ng 60 d%((ecid .?ed (/;to walk the C)=]amino de \.Santia g; o – an 800km p`ilgri]%@mag@=\e trail across the top of Spain.? He had no known rel (igi_on,.)# an?d #  absolute
=ly n!`o id,-ea?. why% he felt] so de!eply compe`,^lled to do%. this t-[ortur\-o,?u?%s walk.　　But compell`?ed, he w as.　 　He com\+(pleted t%he.; walk, ;%!ba%
] ttli+])ng a ,“ triumvirate .; o*/]f pain” _%- a[/= knee t h.+*at he later discove(red lacked any mea]))`n.@ingfu?l car]tilage, a blist)e)-r the/ s((i=^^ ght of w=\hich?:,. ) w!o^uld)% make a grown man ::#weep, and shi] n-so[]r)@ eness ^*t!-ha[(t _
#@ fe,lt like his lower l/i++mb had been spl;it w.] it)^=h a =mou ^ntain axe ^\w`ielded /b=y a de^mented ! troll.　　Arrivi +n-g- at the end of the \Camino;,.@, th%e+\ maje_!-stic cat; hed?!$ral in Santi+ag,:\o de Compostela],$( h=e exp @ected an ;`* ep=iph+
any – an answer to the
[.question [+%he’d been ask ;\ing hims+#]elf every day : Why a@\=m I doing th#is?　　But)/? n?o answer came.　　So?; wh!en he]! g
ot hom ^e he wrote a boo+=k, hopi!/ng`(/ the answer .would [# reveal itsel^@f in his s cribblings. The resu= lt was The Way, My Way,!  a h @umourous and ,^s(?+elf-deprecating book tha:\*t many] c/+on\sider the best /)memoir ^$`ever writt##en on walking the Cam,(ino.　　The `!book  ha([s now +been made !;into $a film, and$! @][it’s an e/-\%xtraordinary acc !+ount of a man at a pi!]# vot[al point_ in his life, searc
hi`n;g for meani!,ng and find@ing himse :lf undergoing a fundamental tr))ans:formation so /]profound t%[]hat h@e no(w divides his life into(\#; “Before t%he Camino” $a[nd “Aft/,er[` t\he C[amino[ .?##”　　It’s +
a st$# o#*r
[y particul.ar to one man, yet of appeal ;)to any*-=one seek-(?ing a gr+%,eat$$er meaning fro][//m lif!*%e.