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Husband and wife team lifts a veil from sentinels of a lost age
It’s another world: dangling from the branches of an 84m, 400-year-old tree; the rainforest below replaced by radiant light and open vistas over treetops to distant, forested valleys.
It’s also a world most Australians don’t know exists, much less visit.
Tasmania’s eucalyptus regnans tower up to 100m, the world’s tallest flowering plant and highest hardwoods, yet while Australians grow up learning about America’s mighty redwoods, few are aware of the equally imposing giants on their doorstep.
A husband-and-wife team hope to change that, spending 68 days camped in the Styx forest northeast of Hobart to rig one lofty regnan with the ropes and cameras required to create a composite image of 87 frames …
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Matthew Denholm, The Australian. (Brilliant) Pics: Matt Newton