Humans may have first walked upright in the trees

[castanea]

Early humans may have first walked upright in the trees
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-early-humans-upright-trees.html
Short read, focused more on chimpanzees

Back to the Trees | Of human tree-climbing, forgotten potential, and skewed evolutionary perspective
https://www.georgebrill.co.uk/post/...potential-and-skewed-evolutionary-perspective
This is a much longer but comprehensive article about humans, shows three indigenous free-climbing techniques.

http://www.aboriginalculture.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Tree-climbing-Image-3.jpg
I'd seen this picture of an aborigine man climbing with just a vine years ago, resting while holding the lanyard with his foot and I'd never forgotten about it.

 

[cory]

Damn bro, that middle article was amazing, touched on so many fascinating points. Thx for posting!

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Excellent!!!

Thanks for sharing the links. There is a lot to absorb from those articles.

 

[castanea]

Also here is an awesome old clip of a traditional tree climbing technique, a variant on one of the ones outlined in the first post. This old guy makes a loop for his feet to improve his footlock. Dont miss the end its pretty crazy.

Getting into a different vein, the traditional Japanese style is pretty cool. Wild descent too.

I guess this topic came up on Joe Rogan at some point, I will try and figure out what episode it was. Just a short clip here.

 

[cory]

Good stuff!

I've descended a tree headfirst one time, similar to that, was a rather scratchy experience and once was enough!