12 months ago we started our forays into the South African tree canopy. This is a short 4 min edit of our time there in January 2013. hope you enjoy. we leave again on feb 19th for another 4 week expedition finding big baobabs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfLd1Sz8CnY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRh4yjcSUew
This is a short vid/doco of a project we are working on in South Africa. The Cape Parrot is a crtically endangered parrot (less than 1000 in the wild) and we have been installing nesting boxes in the politsi valley were we have monitored a flock of...
just a rough edit of a trip into the bush to measure an ancient kauri tree-as normal gopro batteries died before the very end..
This tree was 41.6m tall and had a base of 10.2m-that did not taper for 16m. we are calculating the total wood volume.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZC4yKiLuhE...
thought id post a link to our flickR page- lots of climbing pics and just photos of our travels throught South Africa. Huge thanks to ours sponsors, Yale Cordage, ActSafe and TreeStuff. whom without, we could not do this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95563072@N07/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9UA3VWL7s
In January 2013 the team spent 4 weeks travelling through South Africa climbing and measuring the champion trees. Here is a short edit of our time in the Yellowwood trees, the national tree of south Africa..
nothing flash just 4 mins of diff views throughout NZ. shot on the way to the NZ national tree climbing champs and back again with Scott Forrest, James Kilpatrick, Fredi Hjelm and Drew Bristow. just good times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAAltCaBQh4
Just a little plug for an expedition we are embarking on in Jan 2013. 4500kms, 5 climbers , 2 camera guys lots of trees, a tonne of culture and an amazing story to go with it.
http://climbingafricasgiants.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ExploreTheAncientTreesOfAfrica