Stick a guy 50 feet up in a tree, suspended on ropes, arm him with a chain saw and a goal of moving multi-ton sections of tree top to the ground and you can imagine why.

Saying that a recent tree-climbing school was hands-on is a bit of an understatement. As an arboreal activity that requires a ...

Technical tree climbing involves a rope, saddle and other proper tree-climbing gear because you're actually climbing on the rope rather than on branches.

He launched Blue Ridge Tree Climbing 10 years ago after perfecting his techniques, which involve ropes tied with several kinds of knots. News Roundups ...

I did a little tree climbing courtesy of "Treetop Explorer." Owner Curt Andrews says it's a fun sport with a lot of new discoveries everytime you go up high.

Using harnesses and ropes, Gehan climbs the tree he’s working on and cuts from the top down, lowering tree sections by rope in delicate areas. He started Climbing Arborist in 2009.

For the previous 29 feet of my “recreational tree climbing” career, I had progressed from hesitant to clumsy to competent to downright cocky, as I got my head around the ropes and hardware I ...

No big thing. With no formal rope-rescue training, he used his prior tree-climbing skills, common sense and a professional attitude to get the job done.

Tree Climbing at Silver Falls, a new business at Oregon’s largest state park, is offering guided trips that follow ropes into the canopy of old-growth giants east of Salem.

Bayard is careful of the trees, leaving nothing in them from the climbs, and using sleeves over the ropes to protect the branches’ bark from friction.

The new ropes course, which opened this weekend, allows visitors to see the park from a new perspective by climbing on rope bridges, ladders and swings, crawling through aerial tunnels and ...