Kauri

[Dean Lofthouse]

That's got to be professionally shot right ??

 

Absolutely stunning footage mate, looks like it's straight off National Geographic HD channel

[bbtarb]

amazing video!

[John Shutler]

Cool vid Drew, but I must ask, why bare feet?

 

at a guess so as not to damage the tree

[old snake]

Thats awesome mate,looked an amazing tree to climb too:thumbup1:

[Tree Man Tom]

Wow :thumbup1:

[SJH]

Top quality video mate!!

[MaxJ]

Amazing!

[DrewB]

Wow, cheers for the comments guys. Barefeet-this is to protect the tree and its many lichens from our boots, kauri hold a fantastic array of different trees, liverworts, lichens,moss,orchids and we dont want to stand and destroy them-you never when a botanist may want to climb and study the tree at a later date and it wouldnt be a good look if our boots had just scraped a500yrold patch of epiphyte off. and its also quite nice climbing barefoot on a nice day.

The film was shot by a pro camera crew over acple of days-the major pain is getting the gear into the bush and set in diff trees-we had portaledges set up in variour trees, etc.. The purpose was to help get finance for our mission to do all of the ten tallest trees of NZ. cheers

[Stephen Blair]

i cant get it to work Drew. It wont go by the first 12 secs.

[MasterBlaster]

it wouldnt be a good look if our boots had just scraped a 500 year old patch of epiphyte off.

 

I love that barefoot/patch part! And I hear you!!!