Canopy Climbers // Tree Climbing in Costa Rica

If you’re a rock climber but there’s no rocks around… you climb the trees.
A group of friends in the Costa Rican jungle are spearheading the new wild and exciting sport of tree climbing by using traditional rock climbing techniques to scale giant strangler fig trees. In order to give back to their community, they're sharing their passion with the community by teaching local kids more about the forest through tree climbing.
To learn more about tree climbing and how I made this film check out the link below:
roosmith.com/blog/canopy-clim...
To donate or get in touch with the tree climbers and Palo Vivo reach out through their website:
www.palovivo.org/

[@immaculataabba3992]

Really enjoyed watching this film and learning about the community.

[@NoahKane]

So good Roo!!

[@hegepedersen6411]

Weird you didnt get a reply in 11 Months

[@bendavies3331]

Love this film! Such an insight into how nature should be a core part of education for all children

[@stelz750]

This is awesome. I'd like to try out some tree climbin! Kudos to you guys for setting up a kids program!

[@roosmith6]

Thank you! Getting kids stoked on the outdoors is so important to keeping these places protected and enjoyed for many years to come :)

[@scottytarvan9523]

Start tree climbing tours, my dream come true. Great job...

[@roosmith6]

Tree climbing tours has definitely been brought up! I think the goal is to keep it small and minimize the impact on the stranger figs since, ultimately, we want the trees to be around for a long time for everybody to enjoy :)

[@EvanWisheropp]

This is LEGIT! It was an honor to climb these trees.

[@roosmith6]

🥳

[@JorgeChavarriaMono]

Fantastic! Thank you Palo Vivo! Great work! I hope you can make it to the public schools soon! We need more activities and education like this to be a better and more integral community. Thank you for everything!

[@roosmith6]

Thanks for the thoughtful comment! We appreciate the support :)

[@altitude_sports]

Great job! Super inspiring story, thanks for sharing

[@nate_dodge]

Great work as always brother! Super interesting story!

[@totaratree99]

Nice video thanks for making and posting. Different perspective from mine as an arborist, but I do love getting out into the natural forest and up into the real canopy.

[@roosmith6]

Thanks for checking it out, super cool to see and hear about all the different ways we can get outside and enjoy the trees!

[@charlesworth11]

This is amazing and inspirational thank u so much for sharing this 💜

[@roosmith6]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the kind words!