A Woman Lived 738 days on Top of a Thousand-year-old Redwood to Avoid It Being Logged Down

The group was up against a logging company that was cutting down the region’s redwoods. They needed someone to occupy a tree to bring attention to the cause. Julia volunteered, thinking that she would only have to be up in the tree for about two weeks, maybe a month.

On December 10, 1997, she climbed the 55-meter-tall tree to giving it the name “Luna“. That was when it was realized what she had gotten herself into. “You are tied to a climbing rope; you use your hands and feet to slowly climb the tree. At about 25 meters high, I made the mistake of looking down. I panicked and froze. When I opened my eyes again, I kept my eyes fixed on Luna as I went up.”