FOR THE LOVE OF TREES
THE TOP OF A GIANT TREE IS ‘A UNIQUE PLACE TO BE. IT’S A TRULY SPECIAL FEELING’
PEOPLE often do a double take when he tells them what he does for a living. A professional tree climber? Is there really such a thing?
But this 60-year-old grandfather from Stellenbosch in the Western Cape isn’t telling tall tales: he’s taken his passion for trees and turned it into a rewarding career.
And it’s not just any old suburban oak or wild fig he climbs – Leon Visser tackles the tallest trees he can find in the wild.
He recently climbed one) that soars 83,7m into the sky in Magoebaskloof, Limpopo.
