Super Trees: Climbing a Giant Sequoia | Nat Geo Live

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  • @Anonymoose
    @Anonymoose 11 років тому +79

    These trees are absolutely mind blowing, and they are NOT replaceable. It's a disgrace to humanity that there are actually people who would take them down.

    • @machinelearning171
      @machinelearning171 5 років тому +9

      Anonymoose well, 95% of Redwood trees were cut down during steam engine times, human beings were and are nearsighted, we can not think and act with long term view. However we are not doomed, there are few people are with long term vision

    • @BigCroca
      @BigCroca 4 роки тому

      @@machinelearning171 98%

    • @MHShah17
      @MHShah17 2 роки тому +3

      Some people will kill for a dollar, some might as well pray to that dollar.

    • @johndave8017
      @johndave8017 2 роки тому

      yeah, all those clearcut trees will take civilizations to grow back

  • @CaliBreeeze
    @CaliBreeeze 7 років тому +9

    How could anyone not see the beauty in these ancient living things? So beautiful I get goosebumps every time I watch this some day I will see one in person

    • @nicoleheisel7456
      @nicoleheisel7456 3 роки тому +1

      They're definitely worth going to see. I went to see the giant Sequoias last summer at National Sequoia Park and this month I'm going to go see the Redwoods that are even taller in Northern California.

    • @nicoleheisel7456
      @nicoleheisel7456 3 роки тому +1

      They are absolutely beautiful.

  • @BruceJC75
    @BruceJC75 9 років тому +42

    I don't see how people saw the need to cut down such enormous trees in the past. Sure red wood is some of the best in the world, but we have no problems with pine for most of our current lumber needs. It's easy to harvest and easy and considerably fast to regrow. Either way I'm glad they are protected.

    • @joeblogs8345
      @joeblogs8345 8 років тому

      So you compare the historic needs to modern needs. Maybe that why you'll never understand.

    • @szaki
      @szaki 3 роки тому +2

      Greed, profit!

  • @Sweetgirl420
    @Sweetgirl420 3 роки тому +2

    If that tree could talk!!? What a story it could tell. Absolutely the most beautiful tree!!

  • @samdeur
    @samdeur 4 роки тому +5

    Amazing what a beauty.... here in The Netherlands we have cut down all our forests and had to replant them years ago.. in short all our forests are planted that's right we have zero forests left that are this old..
    take care of your nature people.. once you cut it or destroy it you and your children won't live to see it in all it's glory..

  • @steeeevo403
    @steeeevo403 11 років тому +4

    I just want to go touch one... Fucking amazing!!

  • @benitoriviera3157
    @benitoriviera3157 5 років тому +3

    Nat Geo, we love you guys; you do an awesome and amazing job. 👍

  • @connervaluch1058
    @connervaluch1058 4 роки тому +2

    I had a poster of that photo in my dorm room in college. I've always wanted to climb one.

  • @jlfoodforest
    @jlfoodforest 10 років тому +13

    Incredible film footage!
    I LOVE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC!

    • @AlexanderPoku
      @AlexanderPoku 10 років тому +1

      These people are insane!! Thank God. That is beautiful

    • @mukhtartalash2026
      @mukhtartalash2026 10 років тому +1

      hello my dear friend ! I think its winter ?

    •  10 років тому +1

      Wow! That was impressive ;-)

    • @AlexanderPoku
      @AlexanderPoku 9 років тому +1

      Omg, I had forgotten about this

    • @jlfoodforest
      @jlfoodforest 9 років тому +1

      Alexander Poku
      So BEAUTIFUL!

  • @theilluminedone7896
    @theilluminedone7896 10 років тому +23

    This is a big reason I love my state. Giant forests. Desert, Sierras, Coastal Redwoods, Spectacular. Only maybe Alaska has us beat. If I ever see one of those tweaker bastards cutting down a redwood or sequoia I will hurt them.

    • @DuskLegend
      @DuskLegend 8 років тому

      First of all what would tweakers be doing cutting a tree down, ever? Secondly, there's nothing wrong with harvesting material for resources. Just like all the comments on videos like this you take for granted the need for survival, for the tree, and for people. Also, that username.

    • @theilluminedone7896
      @theilluminedone7896 8 років тому +4

      Dusk Legend Your username suggest you don't live in consensual reality and have a high opinion of yourself. no wonder you are ok with these treasures being used to make toothpicks for sale to enrich some MNC who doesn't need any more money. Fuck it why not just dump all toxic byproducts into our national parks and forests... Fuck nature, we are MAN.

    • @DuskLegend
      @DuskLegend 8 років тому +4

      FistForFascistFaces No, I made this as an xbox username when I was 13, and somehow, it still sounds less edgy than your anarchy alliteration nonsense. But back to the point, industry *is* our nature, you cannot pretend for even a moment that we're still a part of nature as we know it, we are contained in it, at its mercy, but we live, work, and take from nature, separate from nature. Basically what you sarcastically said at the end, we're not nature - we're man.

    • @Japheth19
      @Japheth19 6 років тому +9

      Dusk Legend I acknowledge that your comment was made two years ago, but when it comes to giant sequoia, of the 30 million trees that were cut down during the early 1900s, only 1/5 of the trees were usable as resources. The trees are so massive, that they basically explode into splinters when they hit the ground, making the lumber, weak and useless. After millions of trees were cut down and rendered useless, they discovered that cutting the trees into parts, and lowering the sections piece by piece through an intensive cable system was the only way to do it. This means that California lost around 24,000,000 giant sequoia needlessly. There are areas that were once thick and lush forests that have been reduced to barren wastelands, because there were no regulations or restrictions on logging companies back then. The damage done will take literally thousands of years to undo. Now, thanks to their idiocy and avarice, there are restrictions and regulations that are so extreme that nothing is getting cut down, encouraging the spread of diseases, massive wildfires, and overwhelming insect infestations that have taken another 30 million normal trees from our forests. Luckily, Sequoia have natural protection against these things. The only things they have to fear are gravity and mankind.

    • @BigCroca
      @BigCroca 4 роки тому

      @@DuskLegend you can cut down trees that aren't ancient and or rare and wild

  • @jefffedor7239
    @jefffedor7239 10 років тому +1

    The forest lives! It is our breath of life.Giants watch over us.

  • @OfficialWoojoo
    @OfficialWoojoo 11 років тому +2

    Wow, this tree is just amazing!

  • @Tinaraver
    @Tinaraver 11 років тому +18

    BEAUTIFUL TREE - I can only imagine what sorts of nature spirits inhabit it :)

    • @nathanserna5162
      @nathanserna5162 4 роки тому +1

      More incredible is the thought of the CREATOR of all things including this magnificent tree.

    • @juanjohn-charles3538
      @juanjohn-charles3538 4 роки тому

      What? Nature spirits?
      That's nonsense. Stop worshiping creation. There are no nature spirits. God created all things. Turn away from this idolatry and worship only him.

    • @thomasgrant8074
      @thomasgrant8074 3 роки тому +1

      @@juanjohn-charles3538 I hope this is sarcasm or, better yet, satire. You're speaking nonsense.

  • @JaneWarrenCampbell
    @JaneWarrenCampbell 9 років тому +8

    I saw the 5 page insert of The President one day when I was finishing zip lining. I was in the cabin where we were taking off our gear and I looked up at the wall and saw the photo of that amazing and beautiful sequoia and started to cry! That perhaps explains why I have written a book called Conversations with a Tree. I have a deep and unusual connection and my greatest dream is to visit the Pres one day.

    • @drpreetkhatri
      @drpreetkhatri 8 років тому

      I am checking your book. I am in love with Trees. I feel their presence. Meditation.

  • @Carole1849
    @Carole1849 8 років тому +2

    If you find this fascinating, check out the book The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. It is the story of these climbers and how they developed the techniques to climb and study these trees.

  • @jdww734
    @jdww734 8 років тому +2

    3:18 WTF? How is that guy in green climbing all the way out there?

  • @waldenbuilder
    @waldenbuilder 11 років тому +3

    That is a beautiful tree

  • @regnorum
    @regnorum 9 років тому

    I don't wanna belive people would cut that beauty!!!

  • @bethhickey6621
    @bethhickey6621 10 років тому +6

    It's because we don't care much about living things anymore, whether it is a giant sequoia or a person-we just don't care. Those trees are absolutely breathtaking and we are allowing people to destroy them for money. How sad.

  • @randommemesweekly4417
    @randommemesweekly4417 4 роки тому

    we should preserve these amazing trees

  • @whatupplaya5179
    @whatupplaya5179 3 роки тому

    I have wanted a copy of that picture 😁 does anyone know how I could get one? Preferably a poster👍🏼 Just Incredible! Thanks to all who were a part of this❤️ It makes me SO HAPPY😁

  • @GuillaumeT96
    @GuillaumeT96 Рік тому

    I absolutely need to climb one of those giants.

  • @bloodbeastseb
    @bloodbeastseb 11 років тому

    I have this fold out! its awesome

  • @wiredforstereo
    @wiredforstereo 11 років тому +3

    Fortunately, there are a number of big parks in the Redwoods, there need to be more. The spot where Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was filmed (except the speeder chase) was all logged.
    On the other hand, wood that is logged is still sequestered carbon and stays that way for many years. Redwoods on managed land grow at the maximum rate and are then logged. There's not nearly as much old growth being logged as there once was, but that's probably because it was all logged already. There have also been new populations started around the world, which is good. But it will take thousands of years to regrow what's gone and to grow new groves.

  • @calibomber209
    @calibomber209 11 років тому +1

    I love trees too

  • @gnatucci
    @gnatucci 8 років тому

    Great Job... I will do the same with a tree of my country!

  • @ruthforsyth6124
    @ruthforsyth6124 2 роки тому

    Who needs mountain climbing, start here

  • @randomhobbies5796
    @randomhobbies5796 5 років тому +1

    Magnificent.. I just want to see it and touch it

  • @alpha-pz5ph
    @alpha-pz5ph 4 роки тому

    Length plz

  • @gelato73agustin24
    @gelato73agustin24 4 роки тому

    Just to imagine this tree was the size of the grass in you’re front lawn and it survived a lot to be that big

  • @nicolaskiersnowski9926
    @nicolaskiersnowski9926 10 років тому

    il et super cette abre

  • @draemalic
    @draemalic 2 роки тому +1

    Maybe don't hook into the tree and get a drone?

  • @ruthforsyth6124
    @ruthforsyth6124 2 роки тому

    Plant these anywhere they can grow

  • @juliodepaula4792
    @juliodepaula4792 3 роки тому

    Fantástico

  • @juanida1955
    @juanida1955 5 років тому

    Wow!

  • @tdawg719
    @tdawg719 Рік тому

    Pretty cool. Now you can just use a $1000 DJI drone.

  • @KLFD530
    @KLFD530 5 років тому

    (1:20) that's really bad audio editing. you hear a loop of the same segment of sound, three times.

  • @Orozco_PNW
    @Orozco_PNW 4 роки тому +3

    Why climb it and damage it? Seems like old-school conquest/grandstanding to do so. Drones could easily catalogue much now.

  • @IReallyMissCybertron
    @IReallyMissCybertron 11 років тому +1

    Wouldn't the largest living thing be the Great Barrier Reef?

    • @kbeynon79
      @kbeynon79 10 років тому +4

      I think one could argue that the reef is a collection of many different lifeforms.

  • @ericmclellan6955
    @ericmclellan6955 11 років тому

    I remember this poster fold out I kept it

  • @luisfcayo
    @luisfcayo 11 років тому

    This makes them look like dwarfs from The Hobbit.

  • @trondsi
    @trondsi 10 років тому

    Does anyone know what the "forest of five trees" that he talks about is? Are these close to the President and General Sherman trees?

    • @swithinbarclay4797
      @swithinbarclay4797 5 років тому

      If . . . I discovered THAT secret, I would tell ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, most especially Rush Limbaugh!

  • @Windycitykiid23
    @Windycitykiid23 10 років тому +9

    This remind me of avatar.

    • @swithinbarclay4797
      @swithinbarclay4797 5 років тому

      THIS . . . was only an INCIDENTAL inspiration for "Avatar". Sequoias sorely deserve accolades and tributes far, far better than this!!

  • @joemulgrew
    @joemulgrew 11 років тому +1

    Why are there people who do not like this?

    • @theilluminedone7896
      @theilluminedone7896 10 років тому

      Because they don't like America for some reason invalid or valid.

  • @thedude5599
    @thedude5599 4 роки тому

    Well I live in the West Kootenays. ALL of our trees are second or third growth. Miners burned all of our trees because they were searching for gold and silver. Trees had no value. If they left our Old Growth trees alone they would be worth far more then any gold or silver they pulled out from our ground'

  • @bolasblancas420
    @bolasblancas420 7 років тому +1

    I love living among them.

  • @Nrgman
    @Nrgman 6 років тому

    Cool

  • @mohammedmahmud86
    @mohammedmahmud86 5 років тому +2

    The amount of likes is the amount of cm long the tree is

  • @moet1114
    @moet1114 5 років тому +2

    They need these in ark

  • @korlumchukhu5483
    @korlumchukhu5483 10 років тому

    wow

  • @arbolorian
    @arbolorian 2 роки тому

    read The wild trees 👍

  • @NangNingNungNengNong88
    @NangNingNungNengNong88 2 місяці тому

    Asllamualaikummmmm selamatt pagiii Pak ibu team natgeo unique antique natgeoo ada buah fruits koleksi buah langka rare tress seqoia general sherman tidak iya vidionya pohon itu,

  • @ancestral_light
    @ancestral_light 10 років тому +2

    Sacred

    • @ronaldadams6527
      @ronaldadams6527 6 років тому

      K how do u gt tht thru to ppl today?
      that thy r sacred trees not to be felled.

  • @montetown5741
    @montetown5741 8 років тому +4

    There are no forests on earth. We live amongst grass shoots.

    • @AlexCab_49
      @AlexCab_49 7 років тому +2

      Monte Town please stop.

  • @davivify
    @davivify 9 років тому

    I got excited at the prospect of you guys climbing a giant tree. But it appears that, basically, you're just climbing ropes. Which could be attached to anything.

    • @swithinbarclay4797
      @swithinbarclay4797 5 років тому

      And what's more, "Mike", these men are having a VERY special and TREASURED experience, with their (and my) "big red friends".

  • @hiryumushuzen
    @hiryumushuzen 11 років тому +4

    It's pretty sad that we have other natural resources that can easily replace the need to chop down trees but we refuse to use them.

  • @frandickey8034
    @frandickey8034 4 роки тому

    😊♥️😊♥️😊

  • @Jamie-gi6fl
    @Jamie-gi6fl 11 років тому

    Wale climbs them

  • @Kwint.
    @Kwint. 7 років тому

    ELLO TOEKOMST!

  • @noneofyourbusines9976
    @noneofyourbusines9976 8 років тому

    Yes,probably bigger than the General Sherman tree,but they're not gonna tell you ! Ask them where the Grove of titans are exactly. They're not gonna tell you !

  • @PharaohFluidity
    @PharaohFluidity 11 років тому

    That would make one sweet canoe

  • @ronaldadams6527
    @ronaldadams6527 6 років тому

    the wood from these trees is not high quality why cut them?

  • @nickbradshaw1907
    @nickbradshaw1907 11 років тому

    jdi phantom and a gopro,i can take 4k,HD and not touch the tree
    it runs on a batterys

  • @mohammedmahmud86
    @mohammedmahmud86 5 років тому

    Amount of likes is the height of that tree in Cm

  • @lowlife.8894
    @lowlife.8894 9 років тому

    ummmm helicopters?

  • @tolowamaidu
    @tolowamaidu 10 років тому

    To bad 98 percent of the old growth waschoped down

    • @PINGPONGROCKSBRAH
      @PINGPONGROCKSBRAH 9 років тому +1

      tolowamaidu Most of the giant sequoias were actually saved: something like 2/3rds of the old growth sequoias are still around. But it's true that 96% of the old growth coastal redwoods were cut down.

    • @swithinbarclay4797
      @swithinbarclay4797 5 років тому

      Thanks a bunch, "Ping", for setting "Tolo" straight; way too many folks insist on getting their facts dagblasted WRONG!!

  • @tunkunrunk
    @tunkunrunk 6 років тому

    avatar Na'vi giant tree

  • @vls1900
    @vls1900 4 роки тому

    가만히좀 둬라 인간들아
    그 나무가 너희에게 해를 끼친적이 없는데 왜 그리 성가시게 구는건지

  • @jbeard82
    @jbeard82 9 років тому

    The dude sounds like he's breathing heavy.

  • @orion7397
    @orion7397 5 років тому

    wow