The Man Who Climbs Trees Audiobook (Free)

Random Home presents the audiobook model of THE PERSON Who Climbs Trees, written and browse by James Aldred.

This is actually the story of a specialist British tree climber, cameraman and adventurer, that has made a career out of travelling the world, filming wildlife for the BBC and climbing trees.

James’s climbs take him around the globe, scaling one of the most incredible and majestic trees in existence: the strangler fig tree of Borneo, the monolithic Congolese moabi tree, the fern-covered howler tree of about The Man Who Climbs Trees Costa Rica as well as the colossal hill ash of Australia. On the way he meets native tribes and jungle felines, he gets stung by African bees and chased by gorillas, and he spends his evenings in a hammock pitched a huge selection of ft up in the surroundings, with just the celebrities above him.

This book blends incredible stories of his adventures in the branches and a desire for the majesty of trees showing us the joy of rising – literally – above the daily grind, up in to the canopy of the forest.

‘The wide horizontal branches extended away from me to curl up like the giant fingers of an enormous cupped hands. I slid back to the centre of its defensive palm and waited for my center to sluggish. After a while the tiny herd of fallow deer I have been pursuing emerged in the trees, carefully picking their method through the churned-up leaf litter to pass beneath me in the wake of the ponies. That they had been there all along and I had been instantly struck that not one of them seemed to have observed or smelt me as I crouched in the hands of the oak directly above.’