The World's Tallest Tree
By Mark Flippo
This 3200 Year Old Tree Is So Huge It's Never Been Captured In A Single Image... Until Now."The President" is one of those trees. The giant sequoia stands 247 feet tall, measures 45,000 cubic feet in volume, and is an estimated 3,200 years old.The trunk is 27 feet wide and his mighty branches hold 2 billion needles, the most of any tree on the planet. On top of that, he still adds one cubic meter of wood per year making him one of the fastest growing trees in the world.Giant sequoias exist in only one place. It took an intricate set of pulleys and levers to scale the tree, which some argue is the largest in the world (taking width into account). After 32 days and stitching together 126 separate photos, we are left with this breathtaking portrait of The President.
If this tree could talk, can you imagine the stories it could tell. Tell about the different ways people dressed and moved around the wilderness. We are still unkind, thoughtless, murderers, thieves, and still adulterers. But I am sure it could keep your attention with stories to last you a life time! How the early brave pioneers fought off animals to keep their families safe or came to the aid of a needy stranger. The trees around hold all of that info in the records. What will the life around you have to say about you?