Very, very rarely you will see me recommending content from YouTube like this.

However, some of the movies that The Atlantic is putting out in their series The Atlantic Selects are brilliant pieces of filmmaking and storytelling. I think they are the best content I've ever watched on YouTube.

These are two of my favorites, but I really encourage you to take a look at the other videos of this series. You won't be disappointed.

The summit of Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador, is the highest point on earth. For over half a century, Baltazar Ushca has hiked up these slopes at least twice a week to harvest glacial ice. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/576259/last-ice-merchant/ "It's the tastiest ice on earth, and full of vitamins," says Ushca in Sandy Patch's short documentary, The Last Ice Merchant.

"You have to be at peace with the fact that something might happen, and you might not make it through," says Alexandra de Steiguer, the caretaker for the Oceanic Hotel, in Brian Bolster's short documentary, "Winter's Watch."