Paul Rosolie

Extremely exhausting.

Like I really trained for a long time.

And there is no rest.

The only rest you get hurts.

You'll have to cling to the tree and your feet are smeared against the bark and you're holding on with your toes, if anything.

And if you fall...

you know, if I put a, if you're climbing up, I mean, it's basically trad climbing.

If you're climbing up and you put a safety, which is, you know, a piece of rope with a carabiner and you put my rope through that, again, as you're doing that, it's dangerous because if you fall, you fall.

Then I do that and then you climb up right before you put the next one

you're going to fall double.

So if you climb 30 feet, you fall 60 feet.

And so your head's going to smack against the side of the tree.

As you're climbing, you don't know if you're going to reach into a wasp nest or if there's going to be a venomous snake.

And there's, by the way, in those trees, a lot of those, a lot of those.

And it took me over an hour just to get to the branches the first time.

And it's just, again, full exertion, everything I had.

And then you get to the branches are above you.

And each of the branches is the size of a mature oak tree.

They're just, you know, these huge branches, big, big, big branches inside thick as a minivan.

And you're, you're climbing up this straight tree.