recreational tree climbing

Climb a tree. Face death. Find yourself?

Andrew Joslin specializes in getting people high into tree canopies, leading classes in “recreational tree climbing” that are about something more: connecting with your ancestral DNA while finding your “ceiling” of fear.

By Billy Baker Globe Staff,Updated August 19, 2022, 5:34 a.m.

So I sit and dream, an upright ape wrestling with the fact that we used to climb trees and the fact that we stopped for some reason. In the meantime, late at night, I find myself on the Internet pricing ropes and climbing diapers and life support devices, certain only that there are no sane people involved in that conversation.