I went to the

Indian Institute of Science

campus

to attend the

5th International Canopy Conference

….there were demonstrations of

tree-climbing

Here's Edward, an expert tree-climber, setting up the ropes for the different techniques: here's what it looked like from a distance....Tarzan's hideout... Here's Gowri Shankar doing it fairly easily: Here's who also managed to climb a reasonable height: Yours truly getting into the harness (pics of me are by Gowri): I looked rather suspiciously at the harness as I did not wish to appear in the next day's obituary columns: Slowly, I too started climbing upwards: </lj-cut> It's a question of, er, getting the...hang of it! </lj-cut> Here's Edward, running around the branches of the tree and then letting himself down to the ground with the greatest of ease: It will be many births before I can become a creature of the canopy like that....!