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Yeah, it is pretty interesting. Gene self-published the book back in 1986 at Arena Press in Point Arena California. The book is filled with wonderful stories of his daily life climbing trees for a living.

The front cover shows a guy bending over a dead body. He had just been electrocuted. A father and son were setting up a well drilling rig 8 inches from the 12,000 volt line! Five minutes later they were both dead.

Here's the front and back cover of Gene's book

Keep climbing Bob, you're an inspiration!

Talking about age and climbing. How many of you guys remember Eugene D. Hendrickson who worked as a line clearance tree trimmer for many, many years in California? He climbed well into his seventies. He wrote a great book about his years of climbing. Its called CLIMBING TREES CAN BE...