Five Ten 2016 | Sonnie Trotter | First free ascent of Ewbank Route on Tasmania’s Totem Pole

In January of 2009, after a 9-month battle (and 30 years since the First Aid Ascent) ’The Ewbank Route’ on the iconic Totem Pole saw all 4 of its original pitches climbed free by two local talents, Doug McConnel, and Dean Rollins. The Tasmanian classic went at 27 (or in Yosemite terms), and Planet Mountain wrote: “the two climbers were the first to point out that their style could be greatly improved upon as they freed the individual pitches over separate days, and pitches 2 and 3 were separated by