No, I don't know of the person you speak of. Didn't think I was beating up on tree climbing; I rather like climbing trees. Was actually,(if you reread my original post), questioning the practice of breaking branches off of a tree. That question has since been answered by the party in question.
sorry, im a tad incoherent . i was speaking of beating up on trees. you don't have to do that on denali. there are no trees... right????
guess beating up on a tree is better than playing wack a mole with a sea lion.