Climbers Brian French and Will Koomjian ascend the Brummit fir in Coos County Oregon. It is the National Champion Douglas fir and stands 335 feet tall. Freesolo Photography / Sean O'Connor “Watch out!
Above the village of Berqa, in the sun-bleached hills of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, lies a kingdom. The land here is arid and too rocky for farming - but one piece of vegetation has made its mark.