Caroline Paul

Our cognitive health is on decline.

We're told that as we age, we're losing things.

For menopausal women, women over 50, 60, we don't have a script anymore.

There's a big gray area.

I mean, Harrison Ford is still running through tombs.

Tom Cruise is jumping off some high building somewhere.

So she set out to write this book, which became... The quest to understand whether I should have outdoor adventure in my life.

From base jumping as a grandmother to sea kayaking to BMX bike racing.

I went birdwatching with someone in a wheelchair.

instead of closing down their life, had found new aspects of themselves.

Yeah, I mean, I think that this is a time of great exploration that we should be grabbing hold of.

There are new permutations and very valuable ones of us as we age.

And I wonder if one of the sort of uses of us, if we're gonna be that, let's say, scientific about it, is simply to show the younger generation that life is gonna get better.

I have seen personally that when young people see how our lives are at this age, I think all that is of great value.

So we don't really have to put a lot of work into that.

We can just go and be our best selves.

We should be sitting in that tree, being fed delectable meats, and doing whatever we want.