Modern-day Tarzans have a swinging time

Casey Tavares swinging from a rope he and other arborists made at the Bartlett Arboretum in Kansas, the United States. — Photos: TNS

There was terror in Kaleb Locke’s scream when he fell 5m from a cedar. But partway to the ground, that yell turned to laughter as a rope attached to a harness around his waist tightened.

Back and forth Locke swung through the trees and over a lake. Six friends, some of which watched and shouted encouragement from perches 10m up in sycamores, anxiously awaited their turns.