Watch Sonnie Trotter Send Totem Pole’s Ewbank Route 5.13bR

The Ewbank Route on the Totem Pole was first freed in 2009 by Doug McConnel and Dean Rollins some 30 years after the first ascent in four pitches. In 2016, Sonnie Trotter sent the route in one long 70-metre 5.13bR pitch. He was visiting Tasmania with Will Stanhope in search of hard gear lines. Trotter appeared on Gripped magazine’s cover this spring freeing the Ewbank Route in a photo by Cam Maier, see here. Ontario-born Trotter is now based in the Canadian Rockies and is one of the world’s leading trad climbers.