Simon Bischoff

That's how John Ewbank, defines the Totem Pole of Tasmania in his first ascent (1968): "Imagine a matchstick. Scale it up a hundred times until it is 70 meters high and four meters square. Stand it alone in the sea, a single, freestanding dolerite column so fragile to the eye one dares to hardly breathe". 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.

Mark Savage returns to Federation Peak in Tasmania with an intrepid team of adventurers to undertake his second attempt at scaling the notoriously dangerous Blade Ridge, an aesthetically pleasing line that defeated him twenty-four years previously. To accomplish a world first, the team undertakes their attempt in mid-winter. Their seventeen-day expedition plays out during Tasmania’s wettest winter on record, in the heart of the unforgiving wilderness of the Southwest. Collaborating with videographers Dan Haley and Olivia Page to film the expedition, Winter on the blade is Simon Bischoff's first major film.

Augmentium - A first ascent in Tasmania is a documentary about rock climbing that takes place in Freycinet National Park. It was directed by Simon Bischoff in 2014 and produced by Get A Dog Up Ya Productions. It features Andrew Cubbard 'Squibs'.