The latest United States tree climbing championship and roadtrip, cut into a five minute video short. Featuring some brief clips of the recent International Tree Climbing Championship in Portland (Or), as well as tall tree climbing further to the south in California.
Thanks to Jeremie Thomas of Mt.Arborist for the camerawork, directing, editing, casting, soundtrack and uploading…
Portland (Oregon) is a fair trip from Australia, but the team from the 7 o’clock news made the journey, and a brief wrap-up of the recent ITCC made it onto the national news (starts at about five minutes, after the Olympic conclusion).
Congratulations to the ITCC organisers, judges and volunteers for a competition which ran as smoothly as if it had been on rails. The results were even up online within a couple of days, unprecedented for a major tree climbing comp.
Congratulations to Bernd Strasser for his ninth ITCC win, and to Veronika Ericsson from Sweden for her first world title. The competition ran seamlessly in beautiful summer weather, and the standard of climbing was extremely high. into trees‘ Joe Harris took second place in the Men’s Masters, after winning the preliminaries on the Saturday. One more day in Portland, and then we’re off to the redwoods…
Full results to be posted here soon.
