Thursday, November 19, 2009

Question - 371


Identify the person and the associated event.

Hints: No hits so far except one valiant attempt by Corina :) The zoomed out visual on the left might give you an idea of what she was up to. A film adaptation of her exploits is scheduled to come out in 2010 with Rachel Weisz (not Kristen Stewart) portraying her.

Answer: The picture shows Julia Butterfly Hill, an environmental activist who lived in a 180 feet tall coastal redwood tree for a mind-boggling 738 days to prevent it from being cut down by the Pacific Lumber company. Mrinalini, Manix, Corina, Iam and Jaggi got it. I suppose the originally posted picture provided no clues to work with. Well done all.

7 comments:

Corina said...

Bella Swan enjoying a trip in the forest with Edward?? :))

Unknown said...

American environmentalist, Julia Hill who lived on an ancient redwood tree (that she called Luna) to prevent it from being cut down. To be played by Rachel Weisz in Deepa Mehta's film "Luna"

Arvind said...

no googling. guessing its one of the Leakey Ladies. Jane Goodall,maybe.

Anonymous said...

I was going to write Julia Butterfly Hill yesterday, but when I compared the Wiki photos, they did not even come close! But, I guess, she is the one. She does look nice, out of the tree.

Corina said...

Alright, lets try that again. It's tree sitter Julia Butterfly Hill, on top of Luna, in an attempt to save the grove from being cleared by the Pacific Lumber Company. She lived in that tree for over 700 days. The film "Luna", directed by Deepa Mehta is scheduled to be released in 2010.

IamXcited said...

Julia Butterfly Hill

Great effort by her! I guess hugging the tree was out of question, unless you are King Kong.

Nice effort by QM in bringing this to our notice. Once this Q is complete, QM should send a spam email to the gang and spread the word on her.

Subject: "If you don't forward this email to 10 other people, R.W might not play in the movie!"

As long as its R.W in the movie ...

Jaggi said...

Julia Butterfly Hill (Couldn't have cracked it without the zoomed out version)