Sonnie Trotter’s Huge Totem Pole Send
Sonnie Trotter’s standard-setting send on Tasmania’s Totem Pole.
Trotter managed to link all three pitches on the Ewbank Route into one 70-metre stretcher. The route was first climbed in 1968 by John Ewbank and Allan Keller at A3. It was the original route up the iconic pillar off the southeast coast of Tasmania. It took Ewbank and Keller nine months to establish the route.
In 2009, Doug McConnell and Dean Rollins made the first free ascent of the route at 7c or 5.12d. Trotter has been visiting Australia with Will Stanhope and photographer Cam Maier for the past few weeks.
Look for more on this story in the April/May issue of Gripped magazine.
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