00:02Memories, they're like water.
00:05They don't stay still.
00:08Some slip through your fingers,
00:11but their sound, their feeling, just stays with me.
00:19I came to these mountains 62 years ago.
00:23I was 29 years old then.
00:28We were the first people in history
00:30to climb the central tower of Torres del Paine.
00:38It was January the 16th, 1963,
00:41at 7.30pm,
00:44that I actually reached the summit with my friend, a womanless.
00:48Don died in 1985.
00:51He's probably one of the best climbers in the world back then.
00:54I came back to Patagonia with him in mind.
00:59I know he also would have loved to be back.
01:03Now, in the later chapters of my life,
01:06I return.
01:08I returned to remember.
01:13Today, I'm 91 years old.
01:18A few years ago, my memories began to change.
01:24I was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
01:27I know some memories are fading.
01:31But I read, see, and feel.
01:35Now, this helps me to hold on to them.
01:41Coming back to Patagonia now,
01:43it brings back some of the memories that made me the person that I am today.
01:51We don't own our stories.
01:53We pass them on like rivers of carving stone.
01:58They shape the world out.
02:26A waterfall never stops moving like life itself.
02:31You cannot hold on to every drop.
02:34But you can stand it all that's beauty.
02:39It is true.
02:39To be honest.
03:04You have to understand the meaning of your mind.
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