On the path | The Walkers Ep2

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And there can be quite hard work, uh but When Raina Wynne set off to walk the southwest coastal path, she chose to bring one book with her, Paddy Dylan's Little Brown Guidebook. It's got a waterproof cover and an ordnance survey map. And it's the perfect travel companion for a couple wanting to navigate a mammoth walk along the cliffs of England. If it's lashing with rain, blowing a gale, it's quite stressful and takes you longer than you think it's going to take.

The South West Coastal Path has ascents and descents totalling more than 35,000 metres. Paddy, one of Britain's most prolific outdoor writers, knows it better than most. Apparently it's the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest four times. Well when I was younger and fitter it took me 28 days and we are now on day 49 for me. When I got in touch with Paddy, he just happened to be editing and updating the same book that Raynerwin and Moth followed when they left their life behind and hit the hills.

Like Raynoryn, I wanted to start with an easy bit. So I caught up with him on the very last day of the walk, from Swanage to South Haven Point in Dorset. There's definitely something about the path that attracts people who want to conquer the odds. Paddy tells me that when he was in his late teens he did a whole section of the walk surviving on one loaf of bread and a jar of strawberry jam.

Rainer Wynn and Moth managed to walk the entire coastal path on barely anything more than super noodles, crackers, and the occasional bag of chips. Even more astounding is that not only did Rayner and Moth walk the 630-mile path in two long chunks across successive summers, quite an incredible feat.

Will spend years walking little bits of it at a time. But they did it while Moth was extremely sick. He has corticobasal degeneration and a terminal neurological disease, and this is really the magic of the story. The redemptive arc of the book because the walk fixes him. At the start of the book, Moth's struggling to put his coat on and he needs help lifting Rocksack onto his back, but then just over halfway through the book, Rainer tells us something happens.

After we'd walked for quite a few weeks, maybe a couple of hundred miles, just started to notice his footprints in the dust were just a little more even, and then it all sort of culminated in one night on on a beach. They've pitched their tent for the Too close to the tide line, and in the middle of the night they wake up to find the seas come in. In all the chaos, Moth grabs the tent and carries it up the beach over his head. It's a deeply moving moment in the film of the

When they both realize the walk has had a profound effect on his health. Leave the tent! I'm not leaving it! It's where we live! Look at you! I think there's a huge powerful shift that happens in your body actually when you live in that way. Periods of time. Let's just go ahead. strengthening in your body that it's hard to describe. But I I noticed it happen Then moth overgoes weeks. The Salt Path isn't just a story of a walk against the odds. It's the story of a walk overcoming the odds.

Walking that path allowed Moth to reverse a degenerative condition. Rain R and Moth tell us that it literally helped him cheat death. Mothe we've got this terminal illness, is it, is it? Yes, it is. But I'm still going strong thanks to walking the coast path.

But you can't walk yourself to wellness if you haven't done the walk. Given the fact that Rainer's already been caught out lying about the reasons why they had to take the walk in the first place, the way they lost their home, is it possible she might have lied about the very premise of the whole book? The walk itself. And, if she did lie, then what does that mean for Moth's health condition?

There might be a way to find out because, along that walk, Rayner and Moth made dozens of connections with people they met along the way. Rainer tells us in a disclaimer at the front of the book that the names of real people have been changed to protect their privacy, but I wondered whether there might be a way for me to trace them. Fellow homeless people, hikers, locals, all sorts.

And if I found them, would they be able to vouch for Rayner and Moth's version of events? Would they be able to tell me whether or not they ever did the whole walk? As I set out to trace this couple steps from the book to hunt for the characters written into its pages, I found myself. along a new timeline, one that writes a very different story to Rainer Winds. I'm Chloe Hajimatheu and from Tortoise Investigates and The Observer, this is The Wall.

It's hard to explain how obsessed people have become with trying to find out whether aspects of the salt path are true or not, since my revelations about the story last summer. Reddit and other online platforms are full of this stuff. But the biggest community is on Mumsnet. There's a huge forum there. I worked out there's almost a thousand posts per thread, and there are dozens of threads. I posted a while back in the middle of the year.

I was a little bit confused by what happened between 15 September 2013, selfie at Land's End, and the start of Tim Walker's HNG course in. Nearly 20,000 separate posts written by members of the public in their attempts to work out the truth behind the saltpoth. Over the last few months, I found myself sifting through hundreds of messages while trying to pursue my own leads, trying to piece together the puzzle of how much of the salt path is true.

Some of the people posting on Mum's Net were also sending me emails. One of them was a man called Jonathan Dutton. He was contacting me almost every day, sending me messages like a bizarre story involving turkeys being shot at Christmas on pheasant shoots on the Clavelia State. I contacted somebody on the Clavelia State to ask about the likelihood of this having occurred. They thought it was highly unlikely. And also things like that. If I'm honest, I was pretty wary of him at first.

Why was he sending me all this stuff and what did he want from me? That's a good question and it's a question my wife often asks me. She's been tearing her hair out over the last few months at the amount of time I've dedicated to trying to analyze the truth. Jonathan is so dedicated to his mission of unpicking the book.

that he flew from France where he lives to London to meet me in person at the observer offices. So I was actually saying that I imagined your house to be like one of these serial killer sort of layers where you've got all these pictures up on the wall with the red string attached to them all. Um unfortunately I share the office with my wife. Um she might not have found that. She has prohibited that entirely. It turns out that Jonathan is a hiker and also a real life sleuth.

The twenty-first century Hercule Poirot. crossword puzzle expert. He used to get to the national finals every day. He used to complete the Times crossword in five minutes. So I've kind of followed in that family tradition without wanting to sound pompous. Jonathan's retired now, but he used to be a kind of detective for a living. First investigating companies in Asia to check whether they had overvalued themselves.

And then tracing people who'd been left money in a will but who had lost touch with their families. So when he read my article in The Observer, it reawakened the Sherlock Holmes in him. I thought to myself, hm. That sounds rather like there are some skeletons in the cupboard. Like me, Jonathan realized that the Salt Path served as a kind of witness statement, a catalogue of the events Raina Wynn claims really happened to her and Moss.

And like me, he wondered whether the lies they've told about their origin story might extend to the very backbone of her book, The Walk itself. According to the Salt Path, Rayner and Moth set off along the coast in the summer of twenty thirteen. They take a break for a few months over winter staying with a friend called Polly, and then they finish the walk around September of the following year.

This is a map of the southwest coast path and attached to it are photographs from Raynorwyn's Instagram feed, which we have located At various points of the southwest coast path. based on the account in the book. And so the photographs you geolocated them or were they labelled on Raina Wynn's So they were labelled on her Instagram feed and also I was able to Do some research and ascertain where they were.

Jonathan's been trying to piece together as much evidence as he can gather to verify whether the walk happened, as Rayner says. Using photos Rayner has posted online, he's been focusing on the kind of open source intelligence that analysts use to track real-time attacks in Gaza and Ukraine. The apples are shown on the tree. That suggests that this was taken as claimed in the book sometime.

The reason why I think that they walked at least some of the path in twenty sixteen is that if you look at the clothing that Moth and we have attempted to put a date. on each of these photographs. One of the reasons why I think this photo dates much later from possibly September twenty sixteen is that the rucksack, Reynolds rucksack, the bottom of it is yellow.

But most of what Jonathan was finding was speculative. I needed to speak to the real people, Raina Wynne says she and Moth met along the way. Some had begun reaching out to me directly, others I'd have to track down. I was finding lots of small leads that showed discrepancies in the story. Like the actors from an open air theatre Rayner says they attended at the Minak.

I spoke to some of the cast who said details in her description couldn't be true. She described an actor missing his lines because he was on his mobile phone. There's no reception near the stage, they said. Raynor and Moth get a lift in a van full of actors still in costume. No way I was told. They always leave their costumes at the theatre and they absolutely wouldn't have given Moth and Raynor a lift in a production van. Totally illegal. Just wouldn't happen, they said.

Then there's the pub in Westwood Hoe, where Rayner and Moth join in with a pub quiz. Turns out the only pub in Westwood Hoe fitting that description has never hosted a pub quiz. I spoke to a campsite worker with blonde dreadlocks who caught the couple staying overnight without paying. Raina says. He accused them of space theft, and she called him a shell of laid-back hippie cool, but underneath a frustrated box.

Ticker. When I find this guy, he tells me he's called Taj. Taj, it turns out, lives in a teepee off-grid, and he makes his living these days by teaching people to forage for food in the woods. Space theft isn't in his vocabulary. And he definitely doesn't come across as a box ticker to me. There are so many of these instances where there's a grain of truth with a mound of fiction surrounding it.

Then one day, an email appears in my inbox. Hi Chloe, it says. I'm writing on behalf of Warren Evans, the founder of Warren Evans Beds and Mattresses based in London. It's regarding the duck paw scene in the salt path. Hello! How are you doing? Oh my god, so nice to find you new here. I have a Warren Evans bed at home. Never in a million years could I have imagined that this bedmaker was a character in the salt pot.

Yeah, Grant, I think you know. I forgot my sound is. Warren thinks he is the character Grant in Raina Wynne's account of her coastal war. Back in twenty thirteen, when he was at the peak of his business success, he rented a house, a picturesque shabby chic style cottage off the southwest coastal path in Cornwall. They spent the summer there, his wife and personal assistant, but also the nanny who was helping look after his autistic son.

Taking a walk along Duckpool Beach one day, he comes across a couple of bedraggled looking walkers. And when Warren reads the Salt Path book years later, it brings that summer all back to him. It sounds like me, right from the get-go. They've had a hard walk on it. It's a steep. walk everyone walks up and down it so I go, Well, hey, I bet you'd fancy an ice cream, you know.

Bet you'd like an ice cream. The gravelly voice drifted over us like a wave of tormenting flies. This is Raina Wynne reading her own words from the audio version of the salt park. I'm renting a farmhouse about twenty minutes away. Come camp in the orchard. we sat in the back of grant's sleek four by four as he drove inland through a shade of high hedges

I always help people when I see'em. Well it's not even just helping them, it's just to invite someone back for food when they are hungry or have a shower if you've got a shower and I don't have that fear that humans are gonna somehow I don't have an issue with vagrants, just for starters, you know. But I d Warren's originally from the US, raised in a Quaker family, and charity comes very naturally to him.

So when he came across a couple of exhausted looking walkers on a beach, It wouldn't have felt strange for him to invite them back to his place. And She had a shower and he probably did too, I would have thought. Then they would have sat around by the table. They stayed in the orchard. And then had bacon sandwiches in the morning and off they went. But the book had embellished this story quite a bit.

My name was Grant, so it's changed. Not Warren anymore, Warren Evans. Nope. Grant. I turned up with these white socks with sandals and I've got a sunburnt bold head. And it made me laugh. I said I sound like a right ear. What he thought was less funny was Rayner's description of the three women who were with him his wife, his PA, and the nanny. So the description in the book at least, I have to say it's sort of almost pornographic. Three extremely sexy women

who sort of surround Moth and flutter around him and take him off into another room and begin massaging him. Yeah yeah yeah. Blonde hair swished around Moth as she slid her hands over his shoulders and started to massage his back. My PA was not a masseuse at any point in her life. And uh certainly our autistic son's childminder was not gonna go and massage somebody else's feet. No way. She cut her hands off before touching another man's feet.

In the book, Rainer says the reason they get given this special treatment offers of food, showers and massages. Is because they've mistaken Moth for the poet Simon Armitage. They want to take photos and be associated with a celebrity. Did you know who Simon Armitage was? No. But no, I don't know who he is. We do love reading, but not poetry at all. It's never been my thing. So no. I uh I was insulted. Insulted because it diminished Warren's generosity and it made him out to be self seeking.

But worse than that, Rayner says Grant claims to be a self made businessman when really he was handed everything on a silver platter. He's lied to himself about his origin story, she tells us. Six years. And I know it's like nothing. 'Cause I started with six hundred pounds in a basement in Clarkenwell and when I was

Warren doesn't spend a lot of time dwelling on all this. He doesn't feel the need to tell everyone he meets. He's only telling me to set the record straight. You'd think that she might at least having gone through this terrible situation she went through. have some of the humility to now be more reflective and remember the kindness. I don't mind it, I don't need her praise or thanks. But her reflection on it, she still has a very them and us attitude, it seems, and a very kind of righteousness.

Warren points out an aspect of the book I'd never noticed before. Raina presents the love that she and Moth share as something that elevates them, and she uses it to look down on others who have more material wealth than them as being somehow spiritually poorer. She really loves her husband and she could rather die than be without him. But other people love their husbands and wives too. And it doesn't have to be so excluding.

She doesn't have to dislike the wealthy. She doesn't have to d dislike my wife and the childminder and that. Just because they are pretty women, she might be more forgiving and kinder to other people. Raina's unflattering in her descriptions of so many of the people she meets along the way, even the homeless. people she and Moth should have felt an affinity with. At one point she speculates that one beggar must be a public schoolboy, a Newtonian.

So I'd say I think they're very unlucky. They're very, very, very unlucky to have such a unkind way of looking at others.

Memoir never promises to be the world as it really is. What we're buying into is the world as seen through the author's very particular lens on events and people. In that respect, Raina has the right to paint the picture of people as she sees them. Whether it's kind or generous, it's her view. But lots of the story about Gron is simply made up. The massages, being mistaken for Simon Armitage, none of that is real. And it does feel like she crosses the line from memoir into fiction here.

In terms of the walk, though, Warren says he did meet Raynor and Moth in the summer of twenty thirteen, So it seems they were on the coastal path when they claimed to have been. Did they do the whole walk as described? Well, that's where things get tricky, because not long after my investigation was published, I got a call

Money, do you mind just if you start again because I it's it's on the lizard and it's called It's Mullen Cove and it's Mullying Cove everyone knows it as Mullen Cove Cafe. It's been in the same family for almost eighty years. Yeah. Joanna who runs it at the moment, her grandmother opened it. They're an amazing family. So Raina went there. Well although she's not Raina, is she?

One rainy day, about halfway through the Salt Path narrative, Rayner and Moth stumble into this busy establishment on Mullian Cove Beach. A man in his twenties weighted tables, cleared tables, politely dealt with grumpy customers, cooked cakes, swept the floor, helped old ladies to their seats. The weather's miserable and a downpour has drenched them. So Raina says they shelter in the cafe and sit there, people watching.

The owner came in. What the fuck do you think you're doing? There's two tables out there uncleared. What do I pay you for? You're fucking lazy. The kind waiter can see that Rayner and Moth are starving, so he hands them a panini each, telling them not to worry about paying. And then he tells them he's decided he's quitting. He finishes cleaning, closes the place up, and posts the key through the letterbox before walking away triumphantly. Also, Rayner Wynn tells us, except

There's no letterbox to put the key back through. There's no floors to be swept because it's carpeted and always has been. A member of staff would never have been left on their own to lock up by themselves. In the family have never had a member of staff walk out. Paninis were never on the menu. Almost none of the details Rayner describes are true.

Bonnie's worked as a waitress at the cafe for years. She says she almost didn't take the job because friends of hers who'd read The Salt Path warned her it must be a terrible place. It took me seconds to work out that no one would have spoken to anybody like that in the Molincove Cafe. There wasn't a male owner. There's certainly no male that would have come in and spoken to staff like that. They're a wonderful, wonderful family.

At some point after she started working there, Bonnie realized that customers were probably staying away because of Rayner's description. So she tried to contact the author to set the record straight. via Raina's agents through their website to explain the situation. All I wanted from that was an apology for the family. I did not get a reply from her agents or from Raina. The Mullian Cove Cafe scene. None of it's true. Did Rayner and Moth ever even stop there?

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A dozen miles away and just a few pages on in the book, Rayner and Moth are at another cafe. This was not the Cornwall we knew. Lush, warm, sheltering, welcoming. We couldn't afford to stop at the Fat Apples cafe, but the name got the better of us, and Owner says you're walking. Where are you heading? Two Australians sat down at our table, followed by two mounds of all day breakfast. I tried not to breathe too deeply. The smell was so good.

Rayner doesn't tell us much about this Australian couple, except that they can afford big breakfasts that Rayner and Moth eye jealously. And that they aren't the same hardened hikers. The Australian lady tells them, We've camped and done hotels to here, getting colder though, so B and B all the way for us now. Falmouth next. Drop the tent in the charity shop. Then I'm going to go hairdressers. Got to get my roots done.

At this point in the SALT Path, it's the end of September 2013. Except, it's not. Raynor Wyn's not been honest about when this all took place. And we know that because the Australian couple are real. They're called Jo and David Parsons, and they really did walk the southwest coastal path, and they remember meeting a lovely couple, Sally and Tim, as they called themselves.

The Parsons posted about them on a blog they kept about their walk, and the post describing that meeting is dated 2015, two years after the Salt Path says they met. August 8, woke Sunday to drizzly rain. Managed to pack and walk to the Fat Apples Cafe in Porthalo for a magnificent breakfast. Here we met Sally and Tim, who were walking the path in the opposite direction. What a lovely couple who had a very sad story to tell, but we think we inspired each other.

The sad story the Parsons heard was that Moth was unwell. And they had shared their own story too, because David Parsons had suffered an injury which kept him off work and eventually cost the couple their dream home in Australia. Since then, they've lived in a van. Then, back in 2015, a close friend of theirs found out he was dying of cancer, and they'd taken the radical decision to fly to the UK and walk the coastal path in his honour.

They did the whole thing in one go, hardly ever staying in hotels, and they certainly hadn't given their tent away. Then, one day in 2018, the Parsons picked up a magazine to see Sally and Tim looking back at So they reached out with an email. When we saw the picture of you both in the article, we kept looking at each other saying, That's Sally and Tim. But it can't be as you would have told us you were homeless, and you said you were walking the other way.

And why did you give yourself fake names? Or did you reinvent yourselves while on the path? Would love to know. Raina replied, she told them that she and Moth had decided to redo the walk in twenty fifteen and that they felt the book would have been complicated by such details. The two couples had So much in common and how it is. them to the coastal path, but the salt path somehow misses all of that out. All that's left is this sense of a shallow lady pretending at heart.

We actually can't wait to get back to civilization. But if Rayner and Moth met Warren in twenty thirteen, then they were at very clear. the first stretch of the walk that summer. Then if they met the Parsons two years later, in the summer of 2015, they couldn't have done the whole walk in 18 months as they claimed. The gap between the two is just too big.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Dutton had been digging and looking for other bits of evidence. He'd been poring through Rayner's connections on social media, and he noticed something I had too. That Rayner's son was a prolific Facebooker. His timeline provides some useful dated posts, like one from September 2013 when he talks about giving his parents a lift to Bristol. Write smack bang during the time when they were apparently walking on the coastal path. How could they be in two places at once?

Suddenly deleted a number of incriminating Facebook posts in the days that followed the investigation, including two comments which led one to believe that. the narrative in the salt path was perhaps not entirely accurate. And there's another post from July 2013. That's right at the time when his parents were being told they were having their house repossessed, and crucially, right when his dad, Moth, was apparently being told by his doctor that he was dying.

23rd of July. Just been teaching my dad how to surf. Today's been a good day. Going surfing with his dad, Moth, right after we're told he received his terminal diagnosis. And there's something else too. So much of the detail from the first half of the walk in twenty thirteen, all those people I spoke to, the The Mullion Cove Cafe, Warren, so many more. They're all from the first part of the walk.

There's far less from the second half of the walk, which they claim they did the following summer in twenty fourteen. Jonathan had been sifting through how many words and how detailed Rayner's descriptions were of one half of the walk compared to the other half, and he found that huge swathes of the second half of the walk were just skimmed over. Almost two-thirds of the book focuses on just the first third of the walk.

What is strange is that the stretch from minehead to Landsend is described pretty accurately. On the other hand, the stretch from Landsend to Pool isn't described very accurately at all, so it's roughly three hundred and fifty miles from pool back to Landsend. All these things feel very bitty, little anecdotes, but cumulatively, taken all together, they seem to add up to something bigger. The story of the walk is full of holes.

Perhaps they walked parts of it, maybe they never did the whole thing at all. The walk, which is the very beating heart of the saltpath, is not the unflinchingly honest account its publishers promised. And if they didn't walk the whole thing in the way they claimed, then how is it possible that the walk of the

I'm still going strong, uh thanks for to walking the coast path. I was able to tie my boots after, you know, a few weeks. Your footsteps in the sand were just This ultimately is the offer of the Salt Path, hope and redemption against all odd. But also the belief that if you fight hard enough, and if you cling to true love and to nature, that it is possible to reverse the irreversible. The problem with writing a successful book is that suddenly everyone knows who you are.

And when you keep writing successful books that make increasingly startling claims about miraculous recoveries from death, well, then you can be sure that people are going to be watching you. Neighbours. Wondering why the moth is in Raynoryn's books so different from the moth they're seeing in the flesh? Coming up in episode three.

He was saying how he felt about them and he was getting a little bit suspicious about them. It was like meeting a rock star. He had so much presence. He's a handsome man. He's got piercing eyes, chuck of white hair, and he's warm and friendly and talkative and a great raconteur. I sat opposite Moth and he broke the news. Bill, the doctors have told me not to plan beyond Christmas. And the more I read, the more confused I was. I just couldn't understand it. Lots of things that didn't.

Rainer Wynn responded to the observer's investigation with the following statement. The Salt Path lays bare the physical and spiritual journey Moth and I shared, an experience that transformed us completely and altered the course of our lives. This is the true story of our journey. On her website, Rainer goes on to say, The salt path is about what happened to Moth and me after we lost our home and found ourselves homeless on the headlands of the Southwest.

It's not about every event or moment in our lives, but rather about a capsule of time when our lives moved from a place of complete despair to a place of hope. The journey held within those pages is one of salt and weather, of pain and possibility, and I can't allow any more doubt to be cast on the validity of those memories or the joy they have given so many.

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