The Totem Pole de Tasmania, a gigantic needle nailed in the abyss

As if outside a gigantic needle nailed in the coast between lofty abysses, the Totem Pole de Tasmania is an incredible stone monolith of about 70 meters of height, that could be included enters the formation rocky more imposing strangers and of the world:

Image of the Totem Pole de Tasmania

The Totem Pole is destiny forced for all the climbers whom they look for to confront the most extreme challenges: the monolith hardly has 4 meters of diameter in their wider part, and to scale it, it is required to realise a passage in rápel through cliff and a reduction between rocks until arriving at the base with low tide.

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The Totem Pole is in addition a true icon to Tasmania. Infaltable destiny in the list of all the lovers of the extreme places to climb, the Totem Pole was the ideal icon for a campaign of Greenpeace. In 2001 climbers of Greenpeace they dared to raise the Totem Pole, and unfolded a poster to denounce the fishing and the illegal commerce in the zone:

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