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
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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!
amazing size and the view. das any one know who did the music fatured on the last moments of this video. amazing piano let me know pls had tryed to contactthe guy who posted it here but he must have had fall down during another climbing escapade.haven`t heard back from him ever or even hi don`t know any help appreciated thnx
PLZ ! ANSWER MY QUESTION ! Ok i have climbed high stuff before with and without ropes ( ie not smart without ropes ) anyhoo HOW ! stroung is that cross bow u use to wedge that rope into the tree ? cuz that sketched me out cuz u for sure need ropes but how stroung is it really ???? Beatiful Tree ...
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
what's the name of th epiano song at the end of the movie? I like it!! pretty cool tree, I'd like to visit that national park someday, Pretty Impressive to walk between thode giant trees, I think you would realize how tiny you actually are in the world... too bad I won't be able to visit anytime soon because I live in Europe...
how does the crossbow work he shot a green line and in the next scene he was climbing a rope can someone explain to me what he shot into the tree. Was it an arrow? if so what kind?
Looks like my comment didn't post, so I'm trying again. Thank you for sharing this video! I very much enjoyed reading Richard Preston's article and wished that I could see this tree. Your video has allowed me that privelege. For those of you who think this is bogus, try doing a Google search for "Richard Preston" and "climbing the redwoods". The article is great!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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!
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!
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.
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.
one word " amazing " :)
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.
one of the most exciting that i see. the combination of the music, the subject and the description is very special.
Is this Hyperion?
Certainly is.
SAVE THE TREES, THEY NEED YOU!
:)(:
Ok i will
Lmao 14 years later
On it
Excellent video and share of Spickler's thoughts. We need more like him to pay true respect towards what keep us alive
I love the part where Jim Spickler describes what it's like to climb the world's tallest tree.
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.
2019
Why are you verified lol
that was awesome in sooo many ways! U Rock! U Climb! U inspire with ur vids! Keep rockin!
The video with most comments from 13 years ago than the newest comments. Keep it like this
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.
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.
Amazing that trees could be alive after all those years. I love it.
Great video. Thank you.
Very Interesting! Nice pictures. Good narration.
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
Appears to be a beautiful and peaceful place next to nature. The tree is phenomenal. Thank you for sharing that video with us.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
A view from the canopy of the world's tallest tree is unlike anything that we have seen before. Thank you for showing us.
Wow I get a bit dizzy just with the though of the wind rocking that tree and being at the very top
This was sweet. A very good video!
terrific video... very interesting. trees like that are so amazing and climbing them must be even more amazing.
How cool is that!!! Thx, for the information, dude!
Thanks for sharing such an awesome experience and discovery.
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?
this gave me chills :O well done
Wow. it's amazing what you did and what you do in your job. Keep up the work to protect our forests. I'm a forestry student, and I'm inspired. :-)
This trees are so amazing!
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
good job! its a good documentary and it mustve taken alot of skill and time to do it, amazing ^^
this video is so inspirational.. i love the way he describes the feeling.. it is as if im in there already.
spectacular video. thank you!
Amazing....a brilliant video!
Beautiful video.
Que bello, estar alli para mi seria como tocar el cielo...Bravo!!!
Watching it in year 2023 is giving a different vibe🙂
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.
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!
AWESOME!!
love it!!
amazing, thank you for sharing!
imagine if he found his dad at the top, explaining that the world is actually bigger than it seems
amazing size and the view.
das any one know who did the music fatured on the last moments of this video.
amazing piano
let me know
pls
had tryed to contactthe guy who posted it here
but he must have had fall down during another climbing escapade.haven`t heard back from him ever
or even hi don`t know
any help appreciated
thnx
Really healthy crown; The tree is still growing upwards. Growing from a riparian zone I take it?
"The crown envelops you" lmao
Very Amazing. Cool!
he said its ONE of the highlight in his life and i understand that..nobody was there before...its a cool feeling!
really amazing , good job
PLZ ! ANSWER MY QUESTION ! Ok i have climbed high stuff before with and without ropes ( ie not smart without ropes ) anyhoo HOW ! stroung is that cross bow u use to wedge that rope into the tree ? cuz that sketched me out cuz u for sure need ropes but how stroung is it really ???? Beatiful Tree ...
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
Awesome!
what's the name of th epiano song at the end of the movie? I like it!!
pretty cool tree, I'd like to visit that national park someday, Pretty Impressive to walk between thode giant trees, I think you would realize how tiny you actually are in the world... too bad I won't be able to visit anytime soon because I live in Europe...
Lovely! It would be such a great experience to do that!
i love your spirit !!!
and anything on any level of this masterpiece
a very individual modern sensual adventure documenary...
Southern coastal Oregon? Where else?
beautiful video
ever heard of a total station surveying equipment?
its cool u can see how round the landscape is
how does the crossbow work he shot a green line and in the next scene he was climbing a rope can someone explain to me what he shot into the tree. Was it an arrow? if so what kind?
so how many feet tall is that? i cant remember the meter to foot formula. i think it should be upper 300s maybe?
Looks like my comment didn't post, so I'm trying again.
Thank you for sharing this video! I very much enjoyed reading Richard Preston's article and wished that I could see this tree. Your video has allowed me that privelege.
For those of you who think this is bogus, try doing a Google search for "Richard Preston" and "climbing the redwoods". The article is great!
1 of the most amazing videos here on youtube!!
5 stars
Wonderful.
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.
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.
amazing. takes some guts too
this guy is a complete greener. "your now inside this organism"
cool thanks for sharing !!
Was it found by Michael Taylor and Steve Stillet?
looks fun
Backpacker Magazine had a great article on the tree this past month. It answers many of the questions that people have been posting.
@surrynet are u able to calculate?
looks awesome, i would so do that if i wasn't afraid of climbing trees
beautiful.
very good video, i also would climb it!
thx, keep on doing this work
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.
Old videos on TH-cam are the best
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.
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.
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
I would have been scared shitless up there.
Because the wind blows, and because the trunk is so thin, it swaaaays.
*shivers*
So.... where can we found seeds?
that was so interesting! wow. now I want to go climb it!
its fun doing this with a drone. You can fly to the tip of it and get a perspective from that vantage point
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
@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.
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.
Very cool, thanks for sharing something with us that most of us ground dwellers would never see.
finally an actually good video on the youtube front page.
Thanks for noticeing Ottawa
I wanna know when this was fillmed, cus Ive been to, at the time, the worlds tallest tree about 12 years ago, so i duno if its since been surpassed.