STIHL Spokesman Mark Chisholm Takes 3rd Place at the
International Tree Climbing Championship
This event marks the expert arborist's 15th top-five finish in his 18 years
at the competition
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Date: August 2008
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(ST. LOUIS) – Expert arborist Mark
Chisholm has done it again. The two-time world champion took his 15th top-five finish in
the International Tree Climbing Championship, hosted by the International Society of
Arboriculture (ISA). He finished in 3rd place overall.
In a field of 37 competitors, which included this year's champion, Bernd
Strasser, who is sponsored by STIHL in Germany, Chisholm finished Saturday's preliminary
competition in overall first place and took the following finishes in advance of Sunday's
Master's Challenge:
- Belayed Speed Climb – Chisholm took 2nd place with a time of 48.87 seconds
in this event that tests the contestant's ability to climb up a predetermined route
from the ground to about 60 feet up a tree with a belayed climbing system attached for
safety.
- Aerial Rescue – Chisholm finished in 2nd place with a score of 44 points
in this timed event that tests the contestant's ability to climb to and safely lower a
120-pound dummy representing a climber who is unable to descend without assistance.
- Work Climb – Chisholm took 3rd place with a time of 84.015 seconds in the
work climb, which tests the contestant's ability to move about the tree using a
tree-climbing rope and saddle to several work stations, where they are given in-tree
tasks to complete.
He held his secured footlock world record of 13.8 seconds.
Chisholm has placed among the top ten at the ISA's International Tree Climbing
Championship for the past 17 years. He recently won his 16th straight title at the New Jersey
Arborist's Chapter of the ISA’s Tree Climbing Competition – which qualified him
for this year's international competition.
"This competition is always very tough, and I'm proud to be working among the
best in the industry here," said Chisholm. "An event like this does so much to raise awareness
for the importance of caring for trees – one of our most important renewable resources."
One part acrobat, one part expert rope climber, one part tree physiologist, and
several parts competitor and thrill seeker, Chisholm works as a professional arborist with his
family-owned Aspen Tree Expert Company in New Jersey. A STIHL spokesman since 2001, Chisholm
travels the world conducting safety and education training on behalf of STIHL among numerous
professional groups, most recently in Italy at the annual European Congress of Arboriculture.
STIHL manufactures the world's largest selling brand of chain saws, which Chisholm uses
professionally and personally.
Learn more about Chisholm's work at www.treebuzz.com or www.stihlusa.com.
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