Colleen Kettlewell, Totem Pole (PLACES WILDERNESS 2025)

This photo was taken from the lookout at Cape Hauy, Tasmania, on Day 4 of our Three Capes Track walk in December last year. The Totem Pole is a sea stack popular amongst rock climbers in the Tasman National park, Tasmania. It contains a number of climbing routes, all of which require a Tyrolean traverse to return to the mainland, and is famous for being the site of the 1998 accident which caused British climber Paul Pritchard’s hemiplegia. Around 2- to 30 climbers tackle the 65m tall Totem Pole each year.

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