77 year old Montana climber Maurice Horn asks existential questions about sense of place, identity, and mortality. | dG1fdXhCRTd1MlE1aUk
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00:00When I first touched the rock, that was my wedding.
00:06I guess it kind of started out as a ranch kid.
00:12Everybody got everything?
00:14Yeah.
00:15And while I was in college, the outing club taught me how to climb.
00:20Maurice has been climbing for 60 years.
00:23It's great to see this passion for climbing and still out there, still pursuing it.
00:29It was the adventure, the mystique, the calling.
00:33It's like, wow, there's a mountain out there.
00:38I always wanted to get back to the country, but I never made it.
00:44My dad died when I was 17, and my mom sold the ranch.
00:53It was like growing up in paradise.
00:57It was hard to leave.
01:03It's turned into a strange place.
01:07It's not my place anymore.
01:13Climbing was kind of a replacement for being a ranch kid.
01:18My connection to the outdoors, now I'm just kind of a city dweller.
01:24Thank goodness I found climbing.
01:27It's been a huge part of me my whole life.
01:34I don't know what I'll do when I get to the point where I can't climb anymore.