'No pizzas, no cappuccinos, no nothing': Extreme hiker treks from one side of America to the other and discovers a stunning 'parallel universe' of epic landscapes and heart-stopping wildlife encounters Tim Voors hiked the 3,100-mile (4,989km) Continental Divide Trail from Montana to New Mexico His incredible journey is charted in a captivating new book titled 'The Great Divide', published by Gestalten READ MORE: The 2024 winners of prestigious Milky Way photo competition revealed By Laura Sharman Published: 06:08 EDT, 27 May 2024 | Updated: 06:13 EDT, 27 May 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Advertisement Many visitors to the USA go on a road trip or two to get under the skin of the country. Not Tim Voors. He decided to explore it by walking north to south from one side to the other - and he discovered a 'parallel universe' along the way.
His journey along the 3,100-mile (4,989km) Continental Divide Trail from Montana to New Mexico is charted in a captivating new book titled 'The Great Divide', published by Gestalten . Voors took four and a half months to complete the trek, which he says is equivalent to 15 round trips of summiting Mount Everest. During this time, he went through five pairs of shoes, 50 hamburgers and 100 beers, and encountered 100 chipmunks, one grizzly bear, three black bears, 12 wolves, five moose, five elk, 50 deer, one bald eagle, five snakes and 'one million mosquitoes'.
He reveals that for periods it was a life of 'no pizzas, no cappuccinos, no nothing', add.
