Rock Climbing - What Was It That Really Touched You?

I started climbing in my mind because I was watching in movies and in magazines. And then I discovered that my uncle was a climber in the city. And I want to go climb with him. But his mom always was protecting me. She said, you cannot go. You're just associating it to the movies,.You know, vertical limit and all these things. So he never took me climbing. He didn't take me climbing for many years. It's amazing. That's such an incredible story. What are some of the values of climbers, I guess, to the climbing community?