Most climbers learn on rock or at the gym, but 26-year-old American Noah Kane started with trees in Costa Rica, where he spent much of his childhood. He did not climb up the branches as a curious kid ...

Hugh Safford is calling out into the woods for a tree. That’s normal enough for a forest ecologist, but the tree he’s searching for — the Jeffrey pine — was not, until recently, expected to live ...

On Halloween 2010, West Jefferson resident Duane Hook, 49, had a job to do. He received a call about a cat stuck in a tree, and for the first time, he would use his amateur climbing skills to help. He ...

Sydney Hudzinski climbs in the 2023 Minnesota Society of Arboriculture's Tree Climbing Championship. She won in 2024 and is returning to compete in 2025. NINA MOINI: There's a kid in your life who ...

On an overcast day in May 2022, a group of men climbed to the top of Hyperion, a 380-foot tree that is currently the tallest in the world. When their leader, Simeon Balsam, reached the crown, he and ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Extreme Climbing In extreme climbing, there are various well-known tower shaped buildings that are impossible or even prohibited to climb in reality, to ...

When Tim Kovar, perhaps the world’s most sought-after professional tree climber, saw recent headlines about people illegally ascending giant redwoods in California, he experienced a familiar emotion: ...

Tree climbers from around the world will gather at Silver Falls State Park to enjoy nature, food and scale old growth giants as high as 300-feet from Aug. 21-25 at the Tree Climbers Rendezvous. The ...

Natalie Beneviat Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025 5:00 a.m. | Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025 5:00 a.m. Saying that a recent tree-climbing school was hands-on is a bit of an understatement. As an arboreal activity that ...