days, 17 hours and 25 minutes, setting a record for the trail
. It wasn’t until the two men were well into their journey that Vaughan fully divulged his backstory to Bachar.
“People who were in Patrick’s place, living with heroin addiction, it is often not a happy ending at all,” says Khattar. “Knowing that he was able to make it by himself, and get over it and move forward, and take care of himself better than ever now, it says
a lot. I knew then I had what I needed to make a documentary.”
Vaughan agrees
. “I thought, if this is going to help inspire one person to find their way out of addiction, then we should do it,” he says