[Londonist Ltd]
Follow Jack’s tree climbing adventures HERE
Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching video :
- I’m an obsessive tree climber
- Probably 200 or so trees across the city
- I’ve distilled that into my book
- The tree climber’s guide
- Central London
- All the emails, the phone calls and the spreadsheets
- So I stepped out into a park with a sandwich
- A pine tree
- 60 Feet above London
- The view was just amazing
- Start at the end of your road
- Local green space, a park or garden
- Start on a low branch
- Until your confidence builds
- Take a friend to help you out
- With a friend you can get into 100 more trees than you would on your own
- Work your way up
- Risk-averse (opposed to taking risks) age
- Councils are terrified about being sued
- If you’re cautious and respectable
- There is no reason you shouldn’t explore trees across the city
- It grows up to 60 or 70 feet high
- You can get all the way to the top
- Maybe one day we’ll come back