Wow, that's so awesome and absolutely breathtaking! I love great Redwoods. I grew up with pines and Redwoods in my backyard as a kid (northern california), and I would see birds perched on top and wish I was them so I could see the world all around and below me. The view from Hyperion is something like a dream. I wish I could sit atop it for as long as I wanted. Redwoods by far are my favorite trees. They always make me feel like I'm surrounded by something bigger than me, in a spiritual way. I can't imagine all that they have lived through, and they are like these pillars of wisdom I wish I could speak to. I just have absolute reverence for these trees and they make me love my home all the more!
redwoods and sequoias are my brothers and sisters to me, when i was a kid, we were moving, but i stoped us because we lived in a redwood forest, and we were going to move to a place that got hot and humid, but we stayed in the northcal redwoods, i still today, and i could not leave the trees
I was in Yosemite back in September. I saw redwoods and sequoias, they're simply amazing. I can't imagine just how awesome it would be to be in the top of the world's tallest tree.
Everyone should plant trees wherever they can. It takes hundreds years to grow big but only takes a day to take 'm down. Plant a tree , take care of it , watch it grow as if it's a child of your own.
Beautiful video. Thank you for raising public awareness of these beautiful forests. Nothing compares to the feeling of standing among these ancient trees and feeling their legacy around you.
I was at the bottom of the 2nd largest tree the Stratosphere and it's hard to see the top of the tree and even more since you are surrounded by lots of tall trees around you.
He gets to the top, is so excited, and when he pulls the branches away to get a view of what he's accomplished...there's a trunk of an even taller tree staring him in the face. Mocking him. Now THAT would have been a good video haha.
Wow. That tree is beautiful. I'm blown away by how huge it is. Most of the trees in that forest are likely older than written history. They're living history, and are an incredible testament to nature's longevity.
Hyperion is relatively young for a titan of its size, only about 1,000 years or so. I suspect that there aren't many redwoods in the park Hyperion lives in that would crack the 2,000 year mark, probably only a handful. However, in the last five years, more discoveries have been made in remote places in redwood parks, and some true monsters have been found that could be over 4,000 years old. www.mdvaden.com/redwood_year_discovery.shtml
I hope that in this video, there is some recognition of how it is contributing to inconsiderate treatment of these magnificent trees. Do we have NO imagination that we can't recognize that other "beings" on this planet are just as valid as we ourselves? All those climbing these ancient trees are contributing to their demise. One or two scientists help us to understand what is taking place up there in the canopy. However - do you remember a teacher pointing out to you as a young student - if one person picks a flower, ok, but if everybody picks a flower, they will all be gone! And your teacher was right. If you truly revere these trees, admire them with your mind, and let them be here for your great, great grandchildren!
I have hiked around that area a lot. Pretty Rugged in those particular woods. You would have to find a spot at the same hight as the foot of the tree far enough away to have a clear shot at the top of that tree with no other trees in the way. Not easy. What interested me was that the top was alive. Many of the big ones have ten or more feet of dead wood at the top. I wouldn't want to climb that.
@hagu44 would you rather say "i climbed the world's tallest tree" or "i measured the world's tallest tree using trigonometry" ? Math may be the fast way.. but climbing is the COOL WAY!
I somehow imagine Tree beard coming along at any point wondering what you're doing lol. It's a shame that so many of these trees have been cut down for timber and how sad that we treat the world as a giant commodity store!
wow that would be so cool to climb to the top of yet spectacularly frightening. think the highest i've ever climbed was about 100 feet which was prety damn scary. but i had no harnes and rope still i think it'd take bals of steel to climb that high
115.55 meters X 39.37 inches/meter = 4549.2035 inches / 12 inches / foot = 472.44 feet. A football field is 300 feet long. The tree is much longer than a football field and its end zones combined.
From the above-mentioned source: "The readings from the two positions should agree within the limits of instrumental error... Thus, differences of up to 1 m in readings for a 40 m tree are acceptable" You're no judge of honesty.
okay i just realized that its in the last 3 pages of the book.Yeah Preston talks about spickler and Sillett(guy with crossbow) the 2 people to discover this tree were micheal taylor and chris atkins.
I wrote a book on the magical majestic Sitka Spruce, so this video was AWESOME! Th world's tallest Sitka trees are called the 3 Sisters and r on the West Coast,BC.
You have to have an accurate measure of from where you are to the base of the tree. You Have to do this on uneven ground far enough away to have a clear shot at the top of the tree in a forest filled with huge trees that are in your way. Any line of sight, top or bottom is next to impossible. You can't do everything with math, sometimes you have to go look.
less then 1% left... omg it makes me so depressed. i can only imagine living in these forrest hundreds of years ago at its full potential. Must of been incredible.
The problem tedted is getting those coordinates. Read up on tree height measurements from a university. Even when you have line of sight the measurements are up to a meter off for every 40 meters height.
This is great. I hope that this could somehow be fashioned into a 60-second commercial by some conservation organization, as a rallying point to save these kinds of forests,although I don't know if 60 seconds would do this justice. Darryl
I'm lucky enough to have been born and raised 30 minutes from that forest, and other old growth redwoods. I encourage all to see these old growth stands, it's like being in the largest cathedral on earth.
Im a urban tree care specialist in DC, but I would also like to be a forest canopy scientist too. Trees live a secret life only revealed to those that climb them.
Just read a book about these guys and the top is most times so hard to se, and it can be like a very small branch, and the tree top is swinging all the time, that the only accurate way to measure a tree so tall is to climb to the top and drop a measuring tape.
Oh my God that is stunned. They didn't shoot it, they pitched a line OVER a branch and pulled up a climbing rope. The tree is 379' tall, strong enough to endure wind and weather for decades, and you think the weight of one guy matters? Plus he obviously has a world of respect for trees and was careful.
It may not be the world's tallest tree, but it's the closest one that today's specialists know of and if there is one any taller it would be very nearby and the difference would be minute. And for clarification, a sequoia IS a Redwood. "Redwood" is a colloquial term used to describe three species of coniferous trees endemic to California.
tedted: I'm well aware of the techniques. and for your information, they were in place before the term geomatics was coined. The problem doesn't lie in the math but in the accuracy of the multiple measurement. The University of Australia has a good site on forest mensuration. Read up on that.
Imagine how old those trees are, and the forests, unbelievable. How everything in the world kept on changing but they remained and have grown older and older and older. Those trees have been here way before us and they're still there. Awesome. It makes my skin crawl when I hear that they're about to extinct, and that there actually are people who would love to lumber them down. How fucked up you gotta be in your head to be able to do that, I wonder?
Redwoods are amazing. I have a little fear of heights myself. An old friend who was an iron worker told me that once you get to 60 feet with no problem your ok because from that point on up it doesn't make any difference. You might as well enjoy the view because you'll be dead if you fall anyway.
Depends on the tree and the rock. I could point out some Poplars in my area that would be 5.14 free climbs. Problem is there's nowhere to put in a cam or a nut. :)
The tree is actually 600 years old, not thousands. That's one reason why they think it'll continue to be the tallest for a while, it will keep growing.
Why is it that tall I wonder? If you think of the tallest mountain in the world, Everest, it has other mountains around it almost as tall. But this thing towers way above its companions, none of the others are even close. You'd think there would be at least a couple almost as tall. Fascinating. I know mountains and trees are different of course, but its still a curious thing.
Im glad he climbed it so I don't have to. Im assuming a better camera might have been too heavy at the time, but it would have been to nice to actually see his view with a nicer camera...Also this particular tree is estimated to be 600-800 years old rather than thousands of years as he said although some are a few thousand years old.
FWIW, to ant curious about Hyperion and author Preston's "keyhole" of Redwood National Park, mentioned in The Wild Trees ... a scenic photo was recently posted of one keyhole in the landscape ... about a 4 mile walk into the forest at Redwood National Park
the Hyperion is the world's tallest tree at 115 metres. surprisingly, it is a conifer and conifers usually dont grow so tall, as they pass water from cell to cell rather than through vessels.
Couldn't one get just as accurate a measurement using a drone- drone/ laser measuring combo? I know you lose the experience of the climb, but as a practical point, it seems that climbing a tree might not be necessary, or even the most accurate way to measure.
Well the rough part is that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle says (more or less) that you can't observe something without fundamentally changing it. So you win some, you lose some
not QUITE that simple, you'd need a string that parallel's the curve of the earth as a reference line from a certain point on the tree, preferably near the ground, if the ground slopes down from the tree, that would be easy to accomplish, but if it slopes up, it could be a little harder.
Most likely they use tape measure because you just cannot use laser that easily in a thick forest like that, where all the surrounding trees are also the same huge - there's just no way to see the tree's top from the ground.
It wasn't about just climbing the tree, he said he's a forest canopy researcher so it was about tree science and stuff. It's a pilgrimage, like a biologist going to the galapagos.
You know , if d= the distance from the tree, æ=the angle of elevation from the ground to the top of the tree when you're d meters away from the tree, and h= the height of the tree, then d•Tan(æ°)=h. So remember kids, if you don't want to exert any energy on silly things like climbing tall trees and measuring them, Stay in school, eat your vegetables, and MOST of all...
It would suck because imagine wanting to climb the largest mountain in the world and what you thought was Everest (or whatever the biggest is nowadays) then looking over yonder to see a bigger one would bring up a little bit of sick, you can't deny that. That last comment was a bit unnecessary, I had a great childhood thank you very much.
240p, we meet again...
Jasper Makkinje lol
I actually had to step it down to 144 due to piss poor dsl. :(
I remember the days of 240P porn. I could never go back to 240P. LOL
Richard's World Traveler broooo ikrrrr
Hahahahahah
he said its ONE of the highlight in his life and i understand that..nobody was there before...its a cool feeling!
Now you get fined $5,000 just for being NEAR this tree. #sad
Only without a permit.
yeah because the world is full of dumbasses and some fool is going to find a way to destroy it
How do you get a permit
You can’t get a permit for climbing these redwoods ever
Wow, that's so awesome and absolutely breathtaking! I love great Redwoods. I grew up with pines and Redwoods in my backyard as a kid (northern california), and I would see birds perched on top and wish I was them so I could see the world all around and below me. The view from Hyperion is something like a dream. I wish I could sit atop it for as long as I wanted. Redwoods by far are my favorite trees. They always make me feel like I'm surrounded by something bigger than me, in a spiritual way. I can't imagine all that they have lived through, and they are like these pillars of wisdom I wish I could speak to. I just have absolute reverence for these trees and they make me love my home all the more!
redwoods and sequoias are my brothers and sisters to me, when i was a kid, we were moving, but i stoped us because we lived in a redwood forest, and we were going to move to a place that got hot and humid, but we stayed in the northcal redwoods, i still today, and i could not leave the trees
I was in Yosemite back in September.
I saw redwoods and sequoias, they're simply amazing. I can't imagine just how awesome it would be to be in the top of the world's tallest tree.
If I climbed that tree to the top, I'd be like "Oh shit, how am I getting down?"
Thank you so much, this is a cool video and the narration is great!
Everyone should plant trees wherever they can. It takes hundreds years to grow big but only takes a day to take 'm down.
Plant a tree , take care of it , watch it grow as if it's a child of your own.
Beautiful video. Thank you for raising public awareness of these beautiful forests. Nothing compares to the feeling of standing among these ancient trees and feeling their legacy around you.
Trees give us the best food, best secure places to sleep, exciting locations to climb and to observe. I love trees!
this gave me chills :O well done
lol, this guy is really into his trees. he describes it like a tree raised him or he was a tree in a past life
In 2018, the easiest way to measure the height is to attach the tape to a drone and fly it up to the tree top.
Or use a laser to measure. Take about 10 seconds.
leaves and branches getting in the way
I was at the bottom of the 2nd largest tree the Stratosphere and it's hard to see the top of the tree and even more since you are surrounded by lots of tall trees around you.
The video with most comments from 13 years ago than the newest comments. Keep it like this
one word " amazing " :)
He gets to the top, is so excited, and when he pulls the branches away to get a view of what he's accomplished...there's a trunk of an even taller tree staring him in the face. Mocking him. Now THAT would have been a good video haha.
I'm going to climb the world's tallest tree and record everything in 240p for the world to see!
+Alex Dumitrescu LOOOOL IKR
This video is from 2006.
Fue hace 15 años cerebro de mosca
@@dimlighty this comment was from 2015
@@duck5682 I meant that you shouldn't expect great video quality in a video shot in 2006.
Wow.
That tree is beautiful. I'm blown away by how huge it is. Most of the trees in that forest are likely older than written history. They're living history, and are an incredible testament to nature's longevity.
Hyperion is relatively young for a titan of its size, only about 1,000 years or so. I suspect that there aren't many redwoods in the park Hyperion lives in that would crack the 2,000 year mark, probably only a handful. However, in the last five years, more discoveries have been made in remote places in redwood parks, and some true monsters have been found that could be over 4,000 years old.
www.mdvaden.com/redwood_year_discovery.shtml
how old are u now?
Is this Hyperion?
Certainly is.
I hope that in this video, there is some recognition of how it is contributing to inconsiderate treatment of these magnificent trees. Do we have NO imagination that we can't recognize that other "beings" on this planet are just as valid as we ourselves? All those climbing these ancient trees are contributing to their demise. One or two scientists help us to understand what is taking place up there in the canopy. However - do you remember a teacher pointing out to you as a young student - if one person picks a flower, ok, but if everybody picks a flower, they will all be gone! And your teacher was right. If you truly revere these trees, admire them with your mind, and let them be here for your great, great grandchildren!
SAVE THE TREES, THEY NEED YOU!
:)(:
Ok i will
Lmao 14 years later
On it
I have hiked around that area a lot. Pretty Rugged in those particular woods. You would have to find a spot at the same hight as the foot of the tree far enough away to have a clear shot at the top of that tree with no other trees in the way. Not easy. What interested me was that the top was alive. Many of the big ones have ten or more feet of dead wood at the top. I wouldn't want to climb that.
2019
Why are you verified lol
I love the part where Jim Spickler describes what it's like to climb the world's tallest tree.
i thought it was gonna be a super exciting video, but it turned out to be the most boring stuff I've ever seen and heard.
Thanks for the info!
+bovedli Maybe to you. To others, it's thrilling.
Great comment, I was excited from start to finish! 5 stars!
I found it very interesting.
Excellent video and share of Spickler's thoughts. We need more like him to pay true respect towards what keep us alive
A view from the canopy of the world's tallest tree is unlike anything that we have seen before. Thank you for showing us.
Appears to be a beautiful and peaceful place next to nature. The tree is phenomenal. Thank you for sharing that video with us.
one of the most exciting that i see. the combination of the music, the subject and the description is very special.
This trees are so amazing!
@hagu44 would you rather say "i climbed the world's tallest tree" or "i measured the world's tallest tree using trigonometry" ? Math may be the fast way.. but climbing is the COOL WAY!
Amazing that trees could be alive after all those years. I love it.
You posted this comment before I was born.
Que bello, estar alli para mi seria como tocar el cielo...Bravo!!!
I somehow imagine Tree beard coming along at any point wondering what you're doing lol. It's a shame that so many of these trees have been cut down for timber and how sad that we treat the world as a giant commodity store!
wow that would be so cool to climb to the top of yet spectacularly frightening. think the highest i've ever climbed was about 100 feet which was prety damn scary. but i had no harnes and rope still i think it'd take bals of steel to climb that high
Backpacker Magazine had a great article on the tree this past month. It answers many of the questions that people have been posting.
looks fun
@guaranic - you don't trust the hook. You shoot fishing line, use it to pull up thicker line, then use that to pull up climbing rope.
"The crown envelops you" lmao
115.55 meters X 39.37 inches/meter = 4549.2035 inches / 12 inches / foot = 472.44 feet. A football field is 300 feet long. The tree is much longer than a football field and its end zones combined.
From the above-mentioned source: "The readings from the two positions should agree within the limits of instrumental error... Thus, differences of up to 1 m in readings for a 40 m tree are acceptable" You're no judge of honesty.
that was awesome in sooo many ways! U Rock! U Climb! U inspire with ur vids! Keep rockin!
Wow I get a bit dizzy just with the though of the wind rocking that tree and being at the very top
Wow the beginning of this was very ethereal. I've been hearing a lot about canopy scientists lately, it's a very interesting field.
-Paul & Andrea
okay i just realized that its in the last 3 pages of the book.Yeah Preston talks about spickler and Sillett(guy with crossbow) the 2 people to discover this tree were micheal taylor and chris atkins.
I wrote a book on the magical majestic Sitka Spruce, so this video was AWESOME! Th world's tallest Sitka trees are called the 3 Sisters and r on the West Coast,BC.
You have to have an accurate measure of from where you are to the base of the tree. You Have to do this on uneven ground far enough away to have a clear shot at the top of the tree in a forest filled with huge trees that are in your way. Any line of sight, top or bottom is next to impossible. You can't do everything with math, sometimes you have to go look.
less then 1% left... omg it makes me so depressed. i can only imagine living in these forrest hundreds of years ago at its full potential. Must of been incredible.
The problem tedted is getting those coordinates. Read up on tree height measurements from a university. Even when you have line of sight the measurements are up to a meter off for every 40 meters height.
This is great. I hope that this could somehow be fashioned into a 60-second commercial by some conservation organization, as a rallying point to save these kinds of forests,although I don't know if 60 seconds would do this justice. Darryl
this video is so inspirational.. i love the way he describes the feeling.. it is as if im in there already.
I'm lucky enough to have been born and raised 30 minutes from that forest, and other old growth redwoods. I encourage all to see these old growth stands, it's like being in the largest cathedral on earth.
Watching it in year 2023 is giving a different vibe🙂
Im a urban tree care specialist in DC, but I would also like to be a forest canopy scientist too. Trees live a secret life only revealed to those that climb them.
I would have been scared shitless up there.
Because the wind blows, and because the trunk is so thin, it swaaaays.
*shivers*
Just read a book about these guys and the top is most times so hard to se, and it can be like a very small branch, and the tree top is swinging all the time, that the only accurate way to measure a tree so tall is to climb to the top and drop a measuring tape.
Oh my God that is stunned. They didn't shoot it, they pitched a line OVER a branch and pulled up a climbing rope. The tree is 379' tall, strong enough to endure wind and weather for decades, and you think the weight of one guy matters? Plus he obviously has a world of respect for trees and was careful.
It may not be the world's tallest tree, but it's the closest one that today's specialists know of and if there is one any taller it would be very nearby and the difference would be minute.
And for clarification, a sequoia IS a Redwood. "Redwood" is a colloquial term used to describe three species of coniferous trees endemic to California.
this guy is a complete greener. "your now inside this organism"
tedted: I'm well aware of the techniques. and for your information, they were in place before the term geomatics was coined. The problem doesn't lie in the math but in the accuracy of the multiple measurement. The University of Australia has a good site on forest mensuration. Read up on that.
Imagine how old those trees are, and the forests, unbelievable. How everything in the world kept on changing but they remained and have grown older and older and older. Those trees have been here way before us and they're still there. Awesome.
It makes my skin crawl when I hear that they're about to extinct, and that there actually are people who would love to lumber them down. How fucked up you gotta be in your head to be able to do that, I wonder?
Tree climbing not just for kids--it takes still and strength.
I used to love climbing to the tops of trees as a boy.
The guy is right, it's another world up there.
It is also very relaxing.
I love how he feels for nature.
I feel that way too, but its hard to feel that way for such a vast forest as that one. I wish I was him.
Redwoods are amazing. I have a little fear of heights myself. An old friend who was an iron worker told me that once you get to 60 feet with no problem your ok because from that point on up it doesn't make any difference. You might as well enjoy the view because you'll be dead if you fall anyway.
finally an actually good video on the youtube front page.
Depends on the tree and the rock. I could point out some Poplars in my area that would be 5.14 free climbs. Problem is there's nowhere to put in a cam or a nut. :)
The tree is actually 600 years old, not thousands. That's one reason why they think it'll continue to be the tallest for a while, it will keep growing.
Why is it that tall I wonder? If you think of the tallest mountain in the world, Everest, it has other mountains around it almost as tall. But this thing towers way above its companions, none of the others are even close. You'd think there would be at least a couple almost as tall. Fascinating. I know mountains and trees are different of course, but its still a curious thing.
fastben: Are you serious, or is that the faint odor of sarcasm I smell?
Im glad he climbed it so I don't have to. Im assuming a better camera might have been too heavy at the time, but it would have been to nice to actually see his view with a nicer camera...Also this particular tree is estimated to be 600-800 years old rather than thousands of years as he said although some are a few thousand years old.
terrific video... very interesting. trees like that are so amazing and climbing them must be even more amazing.
its cool u can see how round the landscape is
imagine if he found his dad at the top, explaining that the world is actually bigger than it seems
the peace tower is the tower part of the parliment.. the middle with the clock on it and the canadian flag at the top, it's called the peace tower
FWIW, to ant curious about Hyperion and author Preston's "keyhole" of Redwood National Park, mentioned in The Wild Trees ... a scenic photo was recently posted of one keyhole in the landscape ... about a 4 mile walk into the forest at Redwood National Park
the Hyperion is the world's tallest tree at 115 metres. surprisingly, it is a conifer and conifers usually dont grow so tall, as they pass water from cell to cell rather than through vessels.
this guy is so funny, he's so into it. he's totally loving on the trees, awh.
its fun doing this with a drone. You can fly to the tip of it and get a perspective from that vantage point
23 m taller than the Peace Tower in Ottawa. That really puts it in perspective for us who live in the states!
Couldn't one get just as accurate a measurement using a drone- drone/ laser measuring combo? I know you lose the experience of the climb, but as a practical point, it seems that climbing a tree might not be necessary, or even the most accurate way to measure.
In 2006 when Hyperion was discovered that kind of technology wasn't available.
Well the rough part is that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle says (more or less) that you can't observe something without fundamentally changing it. So you win some, you lose some
@1984wrx they attach the climbing line to the line from the crossbow and pull it up and through!
ever heard of a total station surveying equipment?
not QUITE that simple, you'd need a string that parallel's the curve of the earth as a reference line from a certain point on the tree, preferably near the ground, if the ground slopes down from the tree, that would be easy to accomplish, but if it slopes up, it could be a little harder.
The problem with that method tedted is determining the coordinates relative to the base of the thodolite.
a lot of the branches are bigger than most trees, and when they aren't, you run the risk of damaging them.
Most likely they use tape measure because you just cannot use laser that easily in a thick forest like that, where all the surrounding trees are also the same huge - there's just no way to see the tree's top from the ground.
Is this tree NOW officially taller than General Sherman? And have there been any gentic studies to see if they are perhaps related? WONDERFUL to see!
Its August 2021 and now its taller, but they could send a drone up to at least film what its like to be at the top of the tree.
awe-some! One of mother natures amazing creations. We must protect them so future generations may gaze upon the majesty and be enriched by them.
It wasn't about just climbing the tree, he said he's a forest canopy researcher so it was about tree science and stuff. It's a pilgrimage, like a biologist going to the galapagos.
You know , if d= the distance from the tree, æ=the angle of elevation from the ground to the top of the tree when you're d meters away from the tree, and h= the height of the tree, then d•Tan(æ°)=h. So remember kids, if you don't want to exert any energy on silly things like climbing tall trees and measuring them, Stay in school, eat your vegetables, and MOST of all...
It would suck because imagine wanting to climb the largest mountain in the world and what you thought was Everest (or whatever the biggest is nowadays) then looking over yonder to see a bigger one would bring up a little bit of sick, you can't deny that. That last comment was a bit unnecessary, I had a great childhood thank you very much.
Awesome! but the way the leaves are, it is a "Giant Sequoia" one of the oldest living trees on the planet.
Thanks for sharing such an awesome experience and discovery.
very observant and so true, yet so many ppl dont take a pause in there modern life routine to even appreciate how beautiful nature is!!
good job! its a good documentary and it mustve taken alot of skill and time to do it, amazing ^^
looks awesome, i would so do that if i wasn't afraid of climbing trees
it is in terms of wood volume...that tree is perhaps the tallest...i think its called stratosphere giant, but i could be wrong