George Welles craned his neck to look at the figures in the tree canopy above. “This is the definition of a bad day,” he said, pointing out the climber that was carefully lowering a dangling dummy ...

It's not as easy as it sounds," she said. Ms Murray is one of 25 arborists vying for the top spot in the Tasmanian Tree Climbing Championship, hosted in Launceston's City Park this weekend.