The Quiet Life of the King of the Mountain - For The Interested

The Quiet Life of the King of the Mountain

“There’s really no difference between here and home, it’s just everything’s compacted down to a 14 by 14 room.”

Will you learn something from this video? Probably not.

Will it make you jealous? Maybe.

Will it make you feel calm? Definitely.

Great Big Story shares a two-minute documentary about the quiet life of the king of the mountain, a guy who spends weeks at a time living alone on the top of a Montana mountain and working as a fire lookout.

Spoiler alert: he loves it.

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