There's more to climbing a tree than just climbing the tree. For kids, the experience is physical and mental, said Lise Brown, an educator in Winnipeg who focuses on outdoor education.

New Tribe, an Oregon company that sells equipment for recreational tree climbing, has sold almost 1,500 tree-climbing saddles this year - up 34 per cent from 2003.

Wild animals are the best movers on the planet, and little ones spend much of their time frolicking, fighting, leaping, and climbing. From birth, human children share animals’ potential for wild ...

A 2008 study conducted in England found that half of British kids have been stopped from climbing trees. Parents, they're nervous. But come on!

Climbing trees is important for children’s development, particularly of their self and spatial awareness, and of their own strengths and capabilities. It promotes freedom and it’s thrilling.

Last Thursday, July 11, residents of Coquitlam's Eagle Mountain area had front row seats to an apparent mother bear's lesson for two cubs — tree climbing 101.

The Prairie Chapter Tree Climbing Championship will host an expected 32 tree-climbing arborists from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.