My first youth medal was also in Brixen - where I got my first senior medal a few days ago - and before that competition I put a nail in the wall and said 'European gold medal'. "It is written on my bedroom in my house in Aberdeen. "Gold medals man, it is all about that gold medal," Milne says. Sport climbing made its Olympic debut at last summer's Games in Tokyo and will again be part of the roster in two years' time. The 2024 Olympics in Paris is the big target looming on the horizon and he has an unconventional method of motivation.
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His chosen discipline is bouldering, a form of free climbing, and his silver at last weekend's World Cup series event in Italy was Great Britain's first men's medal at that level for 15 years. When we used to go to a park, my mum would joke, 'if you can't find Max, just look up'." 'I've covered my room in graffiti'įrom difficult beginnings, Milne has prospered. "I was the kid who would get the football off the roof at lunchtime. "When we were playing tig as a child, I was always up trees, you can't catch me because I was nowhere to be seen. "I was always climbing up doorframes and everything," he adds. Scaling objects has been second nature to him from an early age. But it's perhaps no surprise the 21-year-old from Aberdeen is now making his mark at the highest level. "I was starting to be a rowdy boy, and then climbing helped me to settle and find who I wanted to be, so it was powerful."Ĭlimbing is not a pursuit that runs in the Milne family. I was so young I didn't know how huge that was and when I was an early teenager, all these emotions were coming up. "She passed away later that year, when I just turned 11. "I had no idea what was going on, I was 10, I didn't even know what cancer is or what life is. "My dad wanted me and my sister to keep busy and not just think about mum's situation 24-7 because it was super scary and confusing," he tells BBC Scotland.
More than a decade later, it has provided emotional stability and shaped the man he is today.
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