The Alpinist

construction jobs</i> 545 00:32:23,107 --> 00:32:25,860 <i>and my mom was servin' in restaurants.</i> 546 00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:27,737 [PETER] Aren't you and your mom really close? 547 00:32:27,820 --> 00:32:28,821 Yeah. 548 00:32:29,072 --> 00:32:33,326 [MARC] <i>My mom, she's definitely been a big influence on me.</i> 549 00:32:33,743 --> 00:32:34,744 It's kinda hard to explain, 550 00:32:34,827 --> 00:32:36,871 we've just been, like, really good friends 551 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:38,831 my whole life. [CHUCKLES] 552 00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:41,459 {\an8}Marc-André did have some challenges as a kid. 553 00:32:41,542 --> 00:32:44,462 {\an8}He certainly didn't come into this world 554 00:32:44,545 --> 00:32:46,839 {\an8}as a square peg ready to fit into a square hole 555 00:32:47,382 --> 00:32:50,093 <i>and he had a diagnosis of ADHD.</i> 556 00:32:50,677 --> 00:32:52,971 <i>So he didn't sit still for very long</i> 557 00:32:53,054 --> 00:32:55,139 <i>and he didn't fit easily</i> 558 00:32:55,223 --> 00:32:58,017 <i>into the typical educational environment.</i> 559 00:32:58,893 --> 00:33:01,938 Kindergarten was awesome, like that first year. 560 00:33:02,021 --> 00:33:03,982 You know, you build things out of blocks, 561 00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:07,568 and, like, do art, and that kinda stuff. 562 00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:10,154 When it started into, like, actual first grade, 563 00:33:10,238 --> 00:33:11,614 and we had to sit at our desks, 564 00:33:11,698 --> 00:33:13,825 it turned into hell for me. 565 00:33:13,908 --> 00:33:15,118 [CHUCKLES] 566 00:33:15,201 --> 00:33:16,577 For a kid who was a ton of energy, 567 00:33:16,661 --> 00:33:17,996 who loved to learn, 568 00:33:18,079 --> 00:33:21,457 he was losing his, uh... His joy in learning, 569 00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:22,917 you know, to be in school, 570 00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:24,502 so you know, I made the leap 571 00:33:24,585 --> 00:33:27,422 and I schooled him at home for a while. 572 00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:29,590 We'd, like, do some schoolwork for a little while, 573 00:33:29,674 --> 00:33:32,218 Usually, it would finish at like lunchtime, 574 00:33:32,301 --> 00:33:33,553 and we would do cool things together, 575 00:33:33,636 --> 00:33:35,763 like go explore the forest 576 00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:37,807 <i>and, like, identify plants,</i> 577 00:33:37,890 --> 00:33:39,726 <i>instead of just always sittin' at your desk.</i> 578 00:33:40,768 --> 00:33:41,894 [MICHELLE] <i>If you're never given free rein</i> 579 00:33:41,978 --> 00:33:44,397 <i>to have your little adventures as a kid,</i> 580 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,691 <i>you never really learn who you are,</i> 581 00:33:46,774 --> 00:33:47,942 <i>you don't learn what your strengths</i> 582 00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:49,652 or your weaknesses are, 583 00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:52,613 and you never learn that you're capable. 584 00:33:53,364 --> 00:33:56,367 [MARC] <i>She wanted me to discover what I wanted to do</i> 585 00:33:57,285 --> 00:33:58,995 <i>rather than, like, pick out</i> 586 00:33:59,078 --> 00:34:01,039 <i>what she thought I should do with my life.</i> 587 00:34:01,664 --> 00:34:03,708 [MICHELLE] <i>We may not have had two cents to rub together,</i> 588 00:34:03,791 --> 00:34:05,293 but we always had books 589 00:34:05,376 --> 00:34:07,795 and Marc-André was a voracious reader. 590 00:34:09,213 --> 00:34:12,633 <i>He was really captured by adventure,</i> 591 00:34:12,717 --> 00:34:14,927 <i>so we had a house full of those kinda books.</i> 592 00:34:15,011 --> 00:34:16,345 And the more interest he showed in them, 593 00:34:16,429 --> 00:34:18,431 the more books I provided for him. 594 00:34:18,514 --> 00:34:20,725 I must have been like eight years old or somethin', 595 00:34:20,808 --> 00:34:23,394 {\an8}and it was basically this big awesome picture book 596 00:34:23,478 --> 00:34:25,897 {\an8}with stories from, like, all these expeditions. 597 00:34:27,565 --> 00:34:28,775 {\an8}<i>And the ones about mountains</i> 598 00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:31,027 <i>always really captured my attention.</i> 599 00:34:33,112 --> 00:34:36,032 <i>Lookin' at pictures of big snowy peaks,</i> 600 00:34:36,115 --> 00:34:39,118 <i>guys with ice axes tryin' to climb these things.</i> 601 00:34:39,202 --> 00:34:43,247 I don't know, it just seemed really brave. 602 00:34:43,331 --> 00:34:44,665 {\an8}<i>I was so inspired</i> 603 00:34:44,749 --> 00:34:47,752 {\an8}<i>by all of these climbers of the past</i> 604 00:34:47,835 --> 00:34:49,337 {\an8}<i>and I wanted to be a part of it,</i> 605 00:34:50,671 --> 00:34:53,800 {\an8}like, uh, carryin' on the tradition or something. 606 00:34:55,676 --> 00:34:57,428 [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] 607 00:34:57,595 --> 00:35:00,181 <i>At first, it was just jeans, runni