Totem Pole (Monument Valley)
The Totem Pole is a pillar or rock spire found in Monument Valley. It is a highly eroded remnant of a butte.Parts of the 1975 thriller film The Eiger Sanction were filmed at Totem Pole. According to author Ron Hogan, "n addition to directing and starring in The Eiger Sanction, Clint Eastwood did all his own stunts during the mountain-climbing sequences." Hogan further adds that, Eastwood and his film crew "were the last people to climb Monument Valley's Totem Pole; in order to gain permission for the shoot, they had to agree to clear the mountainside of all the pitons from previous climbing expeditions".
