On a recent sunny afternoon, Nick Johnson tossed a bag of lead weights into a tree in Richfield, over the fork where two branches parted. He tied a larger rope to the line, pulled the rope back ...

Explore the Rope Wrench and Rope Walking Hitch-based climbing system in this detailed demo for arborists and tree climbers.

Most of us experience big trees with our necks craned and our eyes skyward as we gaze up into unimaginable terrain. But what if we could explore the ecosystems of treetops, the way we snorkel through ...

When you think of science and math, you probably don’t picture dangling from a rope 30 feet in the air. But at Davey Tree’s new SEED Campus, short for Science, Employee Education and Development, the ...

ALEXANDRIA - Dangling in a rope-harness in a 100-foot sycamore tree gave new meaning to hanging out with mom for Madeline Gardiner. “I feel like Tarzan,” Madeline said, swinging off a branch and into ...

Tim Kovar climbed his first tree in his Nebraska backyard at the age of four. Now a master climbing instructor, he has scaled more than 5,000 trees worldwide, at sites ranging from South America to ...

BENTONVILLE -- Joey Cameron was 1 second too late. Cameron, who works for Integrity Tree Care of Fort Worth, had 5 minutes to rescue a dummy from a tree Saturday in the Natural State Tree Climbing ...

I was about 100 feet up the tree when I dropped my pen. Some ten feet below me, Tim Kovar, probably the world’s most sought-after tree-climbing expert, shot out his right hand to catch it. Kovar, a ...