Tree climbers use "static" ropes, which lack the stretchiness of "dynamic" ropes used to arrest falls in rock climbing. This Yale Poison Ivy rope is 11.7 mm in diameter and has a rated tensile ...

I can’t breathe. I’m exhausted. My heart is beating through my chest. I can’t believe this is happening. I’m sorta freaked out. I’m dangling in mid-air, 50 feet above the ground, swaying ...

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Expert tree climber Tim Kovar founded Tree Climbing Planet, a tree-climbing school in Oregon City, Oregon, in 2010. But he’s been teaching people how to climb trees for about 20 years.

Tree climbing is typically regarded as a happy childhood activity. However, one company is helping people of all ages discover, or rediscover, one of life's simple pleasures. Learning the ropes ...

At the age of 41, Gerrish is a champion tree climber — a nimble scaler of oaks, pines, and banyans, a man who can hoist himself into a leafy, high-rise canopy as effortlessly as a less ...

Using harnesses and ropes, Gehan climbs the tree he’s working on and cuts from the top down, lowering tree sections by rope in delicate areas. He started Climbing Arborist in 2009. Copy the ...

Left: Bob Wray opened Blue Ridge Tree Climbing 10 years ago in Meadows of Dan, Va. His method relies on technique, not raw strength. (Robin Soslow - Robin Soslow) Left: Bob Wray opened Blue Ridge ...

Tree climbing school participants (from left) Chad Marks-Fife, Megan Schaap, Alaina Makowski and Emily Boes scan a pine tree for abnormalities in Cottage Grove, Ore., on June 14, 2023. Noah Thomas ...

Tree climbing is typically regarded as a happy childhood activity. However, one company is helping people of all ages discover, or rediscover, one of life’s simple pleasures.