1975: Climbing Tasmania’s infamous Candlestick on ABC Sportsnight
This is excellent. In 1975, ABC Sportsnight followed a group of climbers as they climbed the Candlestick, a tower in Tasmania rising out of the sea just next to the classic Totem Pole.
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