Some of the oldest and biggest trees in the world are found in California – redwoods, sequoias, and bristlecone pines. The oldest living tree (a bristlecone pine) is around 5,056 years old – scientists keep its exact location secret so nobody goes and tries to make gazillions of toothpicks out of it. The tallest tree is a sequoia called “Hyperion” that is 379 feet tall. That number might not be so easy to understand, but if you think that Alden is about 3 1/2 feet tall, you’d have to stack up about 108 Aldens to be that tall. And we only have one.
Recently, National Geographic magazine photographed another very tall sequoia called “The President,” which comes in at a measly 247 feet (only 70.5 Alden’s stacked up, though we still only have one):
It still took 32 days to get a photograph, which was actually 126 separate photos that they stuck together to make one giant photo. Check out this great video showing how they did it: