Before It Falls (2016)

"Imagine a matchstick. Scale it up a hundred times until it is 70 metres high and four metres square. Stand it alone in the sea, a single, freestanding dolerite column so fragile to the eye one dares to hardly breathe" John Ewbank, on the Totem Pole. This lonely, precarious needle of rock has haunted imaginations around the world, and changed the lives of those who've made the pilgrimage to the bottom of the world for it. Lee Cossey is one such man, who makes an audacious attempt on the Totem Pole.