yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

360° Climbing Giants | National Geographic


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

[Music] [Music] My name is Wendy Baxter, and I have probably one of the coolest jobs on the planet. [Music] I get to climb in and study giant sequoia trees. My name is Anthony Ambrose, and I am a canopy biologist. I've loved trees and climbing trees my entire life. The first time I actually climbed a giant sequoia was just life-changing. [Music] There's no branches down low, and you're just climbing up this massive orange trunk. Anthony is actually the person who taught me to climb; his enthusiasm and love for these trees is just contagious.

[Music] The trees themselves are just enormous. I mean, it's almost hard to understand how big they are. [Music] It's really quite a long climb to get to the top. Sometimes, it's hard to believe. It's like, "What? I'm still going? Where is the top of this thing?" It just seems like they're never-ending. You get into the branches and limbs, and you get to see how really big and gnarly and complex it is. It almost feels like I'm in multiple trees because it has all of these trunks coming up—almost kind of like a hand.

[Music] Look at that! It's gorgeous! As you reach the top of the tree, you break out into the light. It's just almost kind of like experiencing, you know, a sunrise. It is definitely a magical, mystical place. You also start really getting a sense of the scale and perspective that you can only get from being up in the crown of one of these massive trees. I am climbing on this living organism—something that is much bigger and older than I am—that I need to respect. [Music] They're just so big, and you're so small. [Music] You

More Articles

View All
Homeroom with Sal & Congresswoman Karen Bass - Wednesday, August 26
Hi everyone, Sal Khan here. Welcome to this Homeroom live stream. As always, I’m very excited about the conversation we’re going to have with our guest today, Representative Karen Bass. But before we get to that, I’ll give my standard announcements. Fir…
More problems with knowing the 'fundamental nature' of X
Npg85 made a video in which he offered an alternative way of trying to distill the fundamental essence of the process. In his video, he used the example of a computer speaker to illustrate his thinking. So I’m going to use the same example to demonstrate …
Pregnancy 101 | National Geographic
(elegant piano music) [Narrator] The product of millions of years of evolution, the human body is capable of many remarkable things, but none of which may be quite so incredible as the development of life in utero. (calm music) Over three million babie…
More Lies About the World You Believe
So you’re 11 years old. You’ve just scarfed down some mac and cheese and birthday cake. You and your friends run wildly, eager to jump in the pristine blue pool on a hot summer day. And then your mom stops you, saying, “No swimming yet! Wait 30 minutes!” …
Random number list to run experiment | Probability | AP Statistics | Khan Academy
So we’re told that Amanda Young wants to win some prizes. A cereal company is giving away a prize in each box of cereal, and they advertise: collect all six prizes. Each box of cereal has one prize, and each prize is equally likely to appear in any given …
One Final Shot: 15 Opportunities That Are Going Away Soon
You have all the time in the world until your world suddenly doesn’t have much time left. This year might be your last chance, so here are 15 things you’ve got one last chance to do. First up, change career fields. We seem to be at a breaking point here.…