Super Trees: Climbing a Giant Sequoia | Nat Geo Live

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  • @Anonymoose
    @Anonymoose 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@machinelearning171 98%

    • @MHShah17
      @MHShah17 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @johndave8017
      @johndave8017 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @CaliBreeeze
    @CaliBreeeze 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They are absolutely beautiful.

  • @BruceJC75
    @BruceJC75 9 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @szaki
      @szaki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Greed, profit!

  • @samdeur
    @samdeur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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..

  • @Sweetgirl420
    @Sweetgirl420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @theilluminedone7896
    @theilluminedone7896 10 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @jlfoodforest
    @jlfoodforest 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Incredible film footage!
    I LOVE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC!

    • @AlexanderPoku
      @AlexanderPoku 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @mukhtartalash2026
      @mukhtartalash2026 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hello my dear friend ! I think its winter ?

    •  10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow! That was impressive ;-)

    • @AlexanderPoku
      @AlexanderPoku 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Omg, I had forgotten about this

    • @jlfoodforest
      @jlfoodforest 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alexander Poku
      So BEAUTIFUL!

  • @steeeevo403
    @steeeevo403 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @JaneWarrenCampbell
    @JaneWarrenCampbell 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Tinaraver
    @Tinaraver 11 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @nathanserna5162
      @nathanserna5162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @juanjohn-charles3538
      @juanjohn-charles3538 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @jefffedor7239
    @jefffedor7239 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @benitoriviera3157
    @benitoriviera3157 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @connervaluch1058
    @connervaluch1058 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @waldenbuilder
    @waldenbuilder 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That is a beautiful tree

  • @Carole1849
    @Carole1849 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @OfficialWoojoo
    @OfficialWoojoo 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, this tree is just amazing!

  • @bethhickey6621
    @bethhickey6621 10 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @jdww734
    @jdww734 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @randommemesweekly4417
    @randommemesweekly4417 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    we should preserve these amazing trees

  • @GuillaumeT96
    @GuillaumeT96 ปีที่แล้ว

    I absolutely need to climb one of those giants.

  • @regnorum
    @regnorum 9 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @ruthforsyth6124
    @ruthforsyth6124 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Plant these anywhere they can grow

  • @Orozco_PNW
    @Orozco_PNW 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @wiredforstereo
    @wiredforstereo 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love trees too

  • @ruthforsyth6124
    @ruthforsyth6124 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who needs mountain climbing, start here

  • @whatupplaya5179
    @whatupplaya5179 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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😁

  • @alpha-pz5ph
    @alpha-pz5ph 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Length plz

  • @tdawg719
    @tdawg719 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @IReallyMissCybertron
    @IReallyMissCybertron 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @kbeynon79
      @kbeynon79 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @bloodbeastseb
    @bloodbeastseb 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have this fold out! its awesome

  • @juliodepaula4792
    @juliodepaula4792 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantástico

  • @randomhobbies5796
    @randomhobbies5796 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @juanida1955
    @juanida1955 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow!

  • @gelato73agustin24
    @gelato73agustin24 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @Windycitykiid23
    @Windycitykiid23 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This remind me of avatar.

    • @swithinbarclay4797
      @swithinbarclay4797 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @nicolaskiersnowski9926
    @nicolaskiersnowski9926 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    il et super cette abre

  • @moet1114
    @moet1114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They need these in ark

  • @gnatucci
    @gnatucci 8 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @thedude5599
    @thedude5599 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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'

  • @ancestral_light
    @ancestral_light 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sacred

    • @ronaldadams6527
      @ronaldadams6527 6 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @ericmclellan6955
    @ericmclellan6955 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember this poster fold out I kept it

  • @korlumchukhu5483
    @korlumchukhu5483 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow

  • @KLFD530
    @KLFD530 5 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @bolasblancas420
    @bolasblancas420 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love living among them.

  • @Nrgman
    @Nrgman 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool

  • @joemulgrew
    @joemulgrew 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why are there people who do not like this?

    • @theilluminedone7896
      @theilluminedone7896 10 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @hiryumushuzen
    @hiryumushuzen 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @draemalic
    @draemalic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @luisfcayo
    @luisfcayo 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    This makes them look like dwarfs from The Hobbit.

  • @arbolorian
    @arbolorian 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    read The wild trees 👍

  • @trondsi
    @trondsi 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @NangNingNungNengNong88
    @NangNingNungNengNong88 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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,

  • @mohammedmahmud86
    @mohammedmahmud86 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @swithinbarclay4797
      @swithinbarclay4797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then, let's EXCEED those "cm", okay, folks??

  • @montetown5741
    @montetown5741 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @AlexCab_49
      @AlexCab_49 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Monte Town please stop.

  • @davivify
    @davivify 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @Jamie-gi6fl
    @Jamie-gi6fl 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wale climbs them

  • @Kwint.
    @Kwint. 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    ELLO TOEKOMST!

  • @PharaohFluidity
    @PharaohFluidity 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    That would make one sweet canoe

  • @frandickey8034
    @frandickey8034 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    😊♥️😊♥️😊

  • @noneofyourbusines9976
    @noneofyourbusines9976 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 !

    • @noneofyourbusines9976
      @noneofyourbusines9976 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then you'll never be president.

    • @swithinbarclay4797
      @swithinbarclay4797 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If someone learns THAT secret, then Rush Limbaugh will pay someone to cut it down!!

  • @ronaldadams6527
    @ronaldadams6527 6 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @nickbradshaw1907
    @nickbradshaw1907 11 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @lowlife.8894
    @lowlife.8894 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    ummmm helicopters?

  • @tolowamaidu
    @tolowamaidu 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    To bad 98 percent of the old growth waschoped down

    • @PINGPONGROCKSBRAH
      @PINGPONGROCKSBRAH 9 ปีที่แล้ว +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 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @vls1900
    @vls1900 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @tunkunrunk
    @tunkunrunk 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    avatar Na'vi giant tree

  • @mohammedmahmud86
    @mohammedmahmud86 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amount of likes is the height of that tree in Cm

  • @jbeard82
    @jbeard82 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    The dude sounds like he's breathing heavy.

  • @orion7397
    @orion7397 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow