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  • Recreational tree climbing in Colorado.  Jack, left and his father Tom Nawrocki climb a cottonwood outside Denver as part of a recreational tree climbing class.
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  • Jack Nawrocki and his father Tom took a Recreational tree climbing class near Denver, Colorado.
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  • Recreational tree climbing in Colorado.
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  • Jack Nawrocki and his fater Tom took a Recreational tree climbing class near Denver, Colorado.
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  • Gear for tree climbing is essentially the same as rock climbing except cambium savers (leather loops) are used to protect bark from rope burn.
    Tree Climb 0018 Gear.jpg
  • Peter Jenkins, an arborist in Atlanta, Georgia has belped to turn tree climbing into a world-wide sport.
    Tree Climb 0026 PeterJenkin.jpg
  • Andy Taylor climbing a giant redwood near Springville, California.
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  • Recreational Tree Climbing on the Caliiforna Coast near Elk.
    Tree Climb 0032 Smithnosea.jpg
  • Members of Tree Climbing International, mostly from Japan, swing from a giant redwood near Springville, California.
    Tree Climb 0039 Swinging.jpg
  • Peter Jenkins, an arborist in Atlanta, Georgia has belped to turn tree climbing into a world-wide sport.
    Tree Climb0026a PeterJenkin.jpg
  • Peter Jenkins, an arborist in Atlanta, Georgia has belped to turn tree climbing into a world-wide sport pulls a pilot  line attached to a larger climbing rope, over a limb of a tree he uses to teach climbers.
    Tree Climb 0027 PeterJenkin.jpg
  • Gerald Beranek, one of California’s best known recreational tree climbers searches for large trees to climb in the wilderness along Big River in northern California.  One of his climbing buddies, Greg Liu is on the right.
    Tree Climb 0042 Big River.jpg
  • Peter Jenkins, an arborist in Atlanta, Georgia has belped to turn tree climbing into a world-wide sport pulls a pilot  line attached to a larger climbing rope, over a limb of a tree he uses to teach climbers.
    Tree Climb0027a PeterJenkin.jpg
  • Recreational Tree Climbing on the Caliiforna Coast near Elk.
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  • Recreational Tree Climbing on the Caliiforna Coast near Elk.
    Tree Climb 0031 Smith Cover.jpg
  • Members of Tree Climbers International, mostly from Japan climb twin sequoias near Springville, California.
    Tree Climbing 0041a Twin.jpg
  • Members of Tree Climbers International, mostly from Japan climb twin sequoias near Springville, California.
    Tree Climbing 0040a Twin.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
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  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
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  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
    Tree Climbing 0017e Summers.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
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  • Genevieve Summers climbs the Stagg Tree, a giant redwood  and the sixth largest tree in the world by mass.
    Tree Climbing 0036c Stagg.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
    Tree Climbing 0017c Summers.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
    Tree Climbing 0017b Summers.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
    Tree Climbing 0017a Summers.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
    Tree Climbing 0017 Summers.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs the Stagg Tree, a giant redwood  and the sixth largest tree in the world by mass.
    Tree Climbing 0036d Stagg.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
    Tree Climbing 0017d Summers.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs the Stagg Tree, a giant redwood  and the sixth largest tree in the world by mass.
    Tree Climb 0036b Stagg.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs the Stagg Tree, a giant redwood  and the sixth largest tree in the world by mass.
    Tree Climb 0036 Stagg Solo2.jpg
  • Gerald Beranek, one of California’s best known recreational tree climbers searches for large trees to climb in the wilderness along Big River in northern California.  Greg Liu is in the bow.
    Tree Climb 0043 Big River.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
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  • Genevieve Summers climbs the Stagg Tree, a giant redwood  and the sixth largest tree in the world by mass.
    Tree Climb0035 Stagg Solo1.jpg
  • Andy Taylor climbs a giant redwood near Springville, California.
    Tree Climb0014Double Tree 1.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers climbs the Stagg Tree, a giant redwood  and the sixth largest tree in the world by mass.
    Tree Climb0036a Stagg Solo2.jpg
  • Various members of Tree Climbers International assisting  a paraplegic member who with aid of her friends climbed and camped the night at the top of the Stagg Tree.
    Tree Climb 0024a Parap.jpg
  • Various members of Tree Climbers International assisting  a paraplegic member who with aid of her friends climbed and camped the night at the top of the Stagg Tree.
    Tree Climb0023Japan Spotter.jpg
  • Peter Jenkins climbs between two redwoods near Springville, California.
    Tree Climb0025Peter Between.jpg
  • Various members of Tree Climber International assisting  a paraplegic member who with aid of her friends climbed and camped a night at the top of the Stagg Tree.
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  • Andy Taylor rappels down a giant redwood near Springville California.
    Tree Climbing 0016a Double.jpg
  • Mr and Mrs. Sonny Rouche ny a trailer home on their ranch near Springville California.  The Rouche property has some the largest privately owned giant sequoias in the world.
    Tree Climbing 0040d Twin.jpg
  • Mr and Mrs. Sonny Rouche by a trailer home on their ranch near Springville California.  The Rouche property has some the largest privately owned giant sequoias in the world.
    Tree Climbing 0040c Twin.jpg
  • Mr and Mrs. Sonny Rouche by a trailer home on their ranch near Springville California.  The Rouche property has some the largest privately owned giant sequoias in the world.
    Tree Climbing 0040b Twin.jpg
  • Gerald Beranek, one of California’s best known recreational tree climbers at the site of the Henry Tree near Boonville, California.  Also pictured with his dog, Peewee.
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  • Andy Taylor rappels down a giant redwood near Springville California.
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  • Andy Taylor rappels down a giant redwood near Springville California.
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  • Andy Taylor rappels down a giant redwood near Springville California.
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  • Three porta-ledges made by North Face with mosquito netting on the California Coast near Elk, California.
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  • The Henry Tree, near Boonville, California, is a first growth coastal redwood and rises to some 320 feet.
    Tree Climb 0021 HenryTree2.jpg
  • The Henry Tree, near Boonville, California, is a coastal redwood known as an outlaw tree, a first growth tree that for various reasons was never cut because falling it would reduce it to splinters.
    Tree Climb 0020 HenryTree1.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers Fires a Pilot Line into the Stagg Tree, the sixth largest tree in the world.
    Tree Climb 0013 Cross Bow.jpg
  • Three porta-ledges made by North Face with mosquito netting on the California Coast near Elk, California.
    scf4327-282_Tree Climb 0028b PortaLe...jpg
  • Three porta-ledges made by North Face with mosquito netting on the California Coast near Elk, California.
    Tree Climb 0028b PortaLedge.jpg
  • The Henry Tree, near Boonville, California, is a coastal redwood known as an outlaw tree, a first growth tree that for various reasons was never cut because falling it would reduce it to splinters.
    Tree Climb 0022 HenryTree3.jpg
  • The Henry Tree, near Boonville, California, is a coastal redwood known as an outlaw tree, a first growth tree that for various reasons was never cut because falling it would reduce it to splinters.
    scf4327-280_Tree Climb 0020 HenryTre...jpg
  • Three porta-ledges made by North Face with mosquito netting on the California Coast near Elk, California.
    scf4327-282tree climb 0028a portaled...jpg
  • Genevieve Summers (right and below) takes a first time climber (left) up the Stagg Tree, a giant redwood, and the sixth largest tree in the world by mass.
    Tree Climb 0038 Stagg Wom 2.jpg
  • Stagg Tree, a giant redwood, the sixth largest tree in the world by mass is located on the property of the Rouche family near Springville California.  Sonny Roche, patriarch of family is the fold of the 100 foot in diameter tree.
    Tree Climb 0033 Sonny Roche.jpg
  • Genevieve Summers Fires a Pilot Line into the Stagg Tree, the sixth largest tree in the world.
    Tree Climb 0013a Cross Bow.jpg
  • Three porta-ledges made by North Face with mosquito netting on the California Coast near Elk, California.  Connie Sinclair is in the furthest tree.  In the topmost ledge is her daughter Holly (right) and Katie Lewis left.  In the other is Gerald Beranek of Fort Bragg, California and Jane Sinclair.  The property is on on Bill and Cynthia Courtney of the Elk Guest House.
    Tree Climb 0029 Porta Ledge.jpg
  • Three porta-ledges made by North Face with mosquito netting on the California Coast near Elk, California.
    Tree Climb 0030 Porta Ledge.jpg
  • Three porta-ledges made by North Face with mosquito netting on the California Coast near Elk, California.
    Tree Climb 0028a PortaLedge.jpg
  • The Henry Tree, near Boonville, California, is a coastal redwood known as an outlaw tree, a first growth tree that for various reasons was never cut because falling it would reduce it to splinters.
    scf4327-280tree climb 0020 henrytree...jpg
  • Genevieve Somers takes a first time climber up the Stagg Tree, a giant redwood,and the sixth largest tree in the world by mass.  Located on the property of the Rouche family  near Springville California the Stagg tree is nearly 100 feet in circumference.
    Tree Climb 0037 Stagg Wom 1.jpg
  • Three porta-ledges made by North Face with mosquito netting on the California Coast near Elk, California.  Connie Sinclair is in the furthest tree.  In the topmost ledge is her daughter Holly (right) and Katie Lewis left.  In the other is Gerald Beranek of Fort Bragg, California and Jane Sinclair.  The property is on on Bill and Cynthia Courtney of the Elk Guest House.
    Tree Climb 0028 PortaLedge.psd_.jpg
  • Candelabra Tree is several miles up Big River in California on property that is being taken over from a lumber company by several nature conservancies.
    Tree Climb0010 Candelabra 2.jpg
  • The Window Treelike most Sequoia gigantias have been struck by lighting and much of the interior is burnt out sometimes leaving only a thin crust of wood to sustain life.  Andy Taylor looks out its window.
    Tree Climb0041Window Tree.jpg
  • Candelabra Tree is several miles up Big River in California on property that is being taken over from a lumber company by several nature conservancies.
    Tree Climb0009 Candelabra 1.jpg
  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, climbers Ling Sinclair (blond hair) and Greg Liu use a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
    Tree Climb0008Big Shot5Ling.jpg
  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, Climbers Greg Liu (right) and Andy Taylor use a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
    Tree Climb0005Big Shot2Andy.jpg
  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, Climber Andy Taylor uses a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
    Tree Climb0004Big Shot1Andy.jpg
  • Stagg Tree, a giant redwood, the sixth largest tree in the world by mass is located on the property of the Rouche family near Springville California.  Sonny Roche, patriarch of family is the fold of the 100 foot in diameter tree.
    scf4327-290tree climb0033a sonny roc...jpg
  • Stagg Tree is the sixth largest tree in the world by mass and is located near Springville California.  It is nearly 100 feet in circumference.  Arborist and recreational tree climber Andy Taylor is the fold of the tree.
    Tree Climb0034 Stagg Andy.jpg
  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, climbers Ling Sinclair (blond hair) and Greg Liu use a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
    Tree Climb0007Big Shot4Ling.jpg
  • To get a rope into the 320 foot Henry Tree, the first branches of which begin at about 150 feet, Climber Greg Liu uses a Big Shot to launch a lead-filled pouch trailing a fishing line.
    Tree Climb0006Big Shot3Greg.jpg
  • Andy and Connie Taylor tucked 90 feet up in a redwood near their home in Elk.
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  • Andy Taylor and wife Connie Sinclair tucked 90 feet up in a redwood near their home in Elk.
    Tree Climb0001 Andy Connie1.jpg
  • Stagg Tree, a giant redwood, the sixth largest tree in the world by mass is located on the property of the Rouche family near Springville California.  Sonny Roche, patriarch of family is the fold of the 100 foot in diameter tree.
    Tree Climb0033a Sonny Roche.jpg
  • America's top climbing couple, Tommy Caldwell and Beth Rodden.
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  • Connie Taylor finds solitude in the treetops near the California coast near Elk.
    Tree Climb0011ConnieElk.jpg
  • A climber uses goggles to sooth himself to sleep during a climb to Danali National Park, Alaska.
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  • A climber uses goggles to sooth himself to sleep during a climb to Danali National Park, Alaska.
    Alaska Climber 0002.jpg
  • Miners of the Smoky River Coal Company discovered a spectacular dinosaur footprint site during strip-mining operations near the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates xnow-filled dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • Miners of the Smoky River Coal Company discovered a spectacular dinosaur footprint site during strip-mining operations near the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Grand Cache, Alberta.
    scf4327-123-dinosaur tracks grand 00...jpg
  • Miners of the Smoky River Coal Company discovered a spectacular dinosaur footprint site during strip-mining operations near the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Grand Cache, Alberta.
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  • (1 of 2)We were going to take a photograph of Phil Currie rappeling on this vertically faulted cliff and measuring these dinosaur tracks, but the light wasn't right so we returned the next day but the cliff had collapsed.  SEE
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  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.<br />
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(1 of 2)We were going to take a photograph of Phil Currie rappeling on this vertically faulted cliff and measuring these dinosaur tracks, but the light wasn't right so we returned the next day but the cliff had collapsed.  SEE
    Dinosaur Tracks Grand 0002.jpg
  • Miners of the Smoky River Coal Company discovered a spectacular dinosaur footprint site during strip-mining operations near the foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Grand Cache, Alberta.
    Dinosaur Tracks Grand 0001.jpg
  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates snow filled dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.
    Currie Phil 0013 GrandCache.jpg
  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates xnow-filled dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.
    Currie Phil 0012 GrandCache.jpg
  • Unlike mountain climbing, cluster ballooning isn't strenuous, yet it's easy to get lightheaded in the clouds.
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  • Photography is usually one of the professions where, if you do a bad job nobody dies but when I photographed the Chrysler Building there was every chance that if we messed up – statistically someone was going to get hurt.  We fabricated a scaffold with adjustable platforms to mount four motorized Hasselblad cameras and hang it over the edge of the Chrysler Building to get this viewpoint. One of my assistants, a bit of an electronics buff wired all the cameras to a single switching box so I could fire them all with one button. It so happened that the previous tenants had vacated the week before so we had the whole wing of the floor to ourselves.  We strung climbing rope through the windows and around the building as a main lifeline and clipped ourselves onto the line with harnesses.  The whole heavy contraption was lowered and raised about thirty times over rush hour pedestrian traffic some 57 stories above Lexington Avenue as we changed film backs and adjusted exposures and made slight adjustments in camera angles.  Even though we were all roped and harnessed in, if anything fell, say a film back or film slide and hit someone it would have been a disaster.<br />
We photographed the building over several days during a couple of sunsets and sunrises, even at different times of year but the best shot was taken the first day.  It was one of those miraculously rare clear days when the pollution was blown out to sea leaving metropolis looking like it just got out of the bath.  I used Tungsten film to accentuate the blues of magic hour when two divergent spectrums of light, blues and reds, coverag
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  • John Ninomiya, uses a global positioning system to keep track of his speed direction of travel and a variometer for his rate of climb.
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  • John Ninomiya, uses a global positioning system to keep track of his speed direction of travel and a variometer for his rate of climb.
    Cluster Ballooning 0011.jpg
  • Crew Member of the Goodyear Blimp climps a tower to untie it from the mooring.
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  • Crew Member of the Goodyear Blimp climps a tower to untie it from the mooring.
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  • Crew Member of the Goodyear Blimp climps a tower to untie it from the mooring.
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  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.  For a story I proposed on trash to National Geographic, I decided to ride a garbage barge as it motored past Gotham. Getting the pile of trash with the city in the background would be a powerful juxtaposition.  Having finished the shoot and waiting to get out of the stinking barge to the dump, I began strolling down the rows of barges back to the pilot house when I noticed the plastic American flag banner just as we were drifting by the Statue of Liberty.   I quickly climbed onto the revolting refuse and snapped about 10 pictures before we sailed out of range. Inspecting the film, I later noticed that there were quite a few other objects in the trash with the banner, including the infamous, kitchen sink.  After this shot was taken, barges had to be covered with giant nets so trash wouldn’t blow into the rivers and bay.  Freshkills Landfull was declared full in 2001 and later reopened in 2002 to discard the Trade Towers.
    scf4327-900_American Trash 0002.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.  For a story I proposed on trash to National Geographic, I decided to ride a garbage barge as it motored past Gotham. Getting the pile of trash with the city in the background would be a powerful juxtaposition.  Having finished the shoot and waiting to get out of the stinking barge to the dump, I began strolling down the rows of barges back to the pilot house when I noticed the plastic American flag banner just as we were drifting by the Statue of Liberty.   I quickly climbed onto the revolting refuse and snapped about 10 pictures before we sailed out of range. Inspecting the film, I later noticed that there were quite a few other objects in the trash with the banner, including the infamous, kitchen sink.  After this shot was taken, barges had to be covered with giant nets so trash wouldn’t blow into the rivers and bay.  Freshkills Landfull was declared full in 2001 and later reopened in 2002 to discard the Trade Towers.
    American Trash 0002.jpg
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