La storia di una salita.
La conquista della cima della sequoia piu alta del mondo THE PRESIDENT, all’interno del Sequoia National Park, California, U.S.A.
L’avventura invernale è stata filmata dal National Geographic. (guarda il video)
On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern Sierra Nevada, looms a very big tree. Its trunk is rusty red, thickened with deep layers of furrowed bark, and 27 feet in diameter at the base. Its footprint would cover your dining room. Trying to glimpse its tippy top, or craning to see the shape of its crown, could give you a sore neck. That is, this tree is so big you can scarcely look at it all. It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods. (MORE..)
