A doctor has revealed why he quit his medical career to spend time in the mountains.
'Dr Goobie' - which isn't his real name - was a neurosurgeon, educated at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He'd been a neurosurgeon for 10 years, but decided to quit his career and leave it all behind.
Goobie - who posted on YouTube under the name Goobie and Doobie - explained that he'd always been interested in how the brain - and consciousness - works.
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When Goobie got his first job, he recalled that something didn't feel right and despite being paid well, having good support and good colleagues, he was very unhappy.
"I was the most unhappy that I've ever been and I couldn't figure it out for a long time," he said.
Goobie also explained that he had just married his wife prior to starting the job and although she tried to help him figure it out, he couldn't describe what was causing him to feel that way.
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Primarily, in his day-to-day work, Goobie would perform spinal surgeries on patients suffering from back pain.
"It's like you have a house and the roof, the top of your house has a leak somewhere & rainwater is coming down into the house, ruining the drywall," he explained.
Although he helped a lot of people, Goobie said there were 'way more' people that he couldn't help.
After trying to understand why he felt so unhappy, Goobie realised that most of his surgeries weren't fixing patients' problems.
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"What I was doing, was doing the surgeries I knew how to do, but they weren't fixing the problem," he explained.
Goobie realised that other factors, like diet, sleep and exercise were far more important.
But the former doctor explained that the way hospitals are set up doesn't always correlate to helping patients entirely.
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"The way things are set up is that the hospital needs to make money; they need to make money. They need to grow economically," he said.
"The problem there is that if you figure out a way to help patients heal and that in that way doesn't include a pill or surgery well then the hospital and the doctor are in big trouble.
"Because if you figure out a way to help people heal and you can't charge them for it well then you've just worked yourself out of a job."
Goobie continued: "I still did surgery but I really felt like really felt like the focus of medicine wasn't in the right place. It wasn't in healing it was in making money from surgeries and pills.
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"I'm not knocking any particular place that I work. I work for very good hospitals, and people have good intentions, but the incentives are not right in the whole system."
After coming to the realisation, Goobie decided to quit his job for good.
"The incentives were not right. Once I figured out what was going on it was a huge problem for me ethically," he said.
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"I was doing a job I didn't believe in anymore. When you let go of something that you're holding too tightly, even though it's hurting you, and you let go of it, then you're able to pick up something else that hopefully is better for you."
Dr Goobie now spends a lot of time out in nature with his dog, Doobie, recording their hikes and adventures and sharing the footage with followers.
"I wanted to spend time outside, help my dog live a full life and record those moments so that if I live longer than Doobie, I can look back on them," he said.
"I'm able to be outside and be healthier, I've figured out a way I can help relieve people's suffering, by sharing nature scenes with them."
Lucy Devine