'La Frontera' Traces Mark Hainds' 1,100 Mile Walk Along the US-MX Border Joe Vincenza - WUWF
go to original October 27, 2016

The boots and pocket knife Mark Hainds hiked with along the Texas-Mexico border. (Mark Hainds)

Listen: Mark Hainds discusses his motivation for walking the Texas-Mexico border

The Mexico America border has been of particular attention lately, as an issue in the 2016 presidential election. But for Mark Hainds, the subject of the documentary film “La Frontera”, his fascination with the border began long before the election.



“It’s always been works of literature, it seems like, that inspired me to go somewhere. I had started reading Cormac McCarthy, all of his books: “No Country For Old Men” and “All The Pretty Horses” they’re set along the border, along the Texas-Mexico border in particular and I decided not just to take some time off but to resign my position. I wanted to see those areas, I was really captivated by what I was reading about them but I also looked at cell phone coverage… I wanted to really really get away. And I wanted to do something that I thought no one had done before: walk the length of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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