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Ayers Rock 26-Sep-2006 At 1:37:38 PM DaCrux

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I have to disagree with you Chris. Uluru is a World Heritage Area – and should be preserved. It also has great spiritual significance for Anangu and they prefer that people don’t climb it. You wouldn’t want people to come your home and destroy whatever they want just because it feels natural to them or to walk all over your ancestors’ graves. There aren’t that many areas in Australia where climbing is banned, and you’ll find that in most of them, climbing is banned because they’re in national parks.
I think sometimes people want to climb in some places only because they aren’t allowed to. I remember bushwalking in a spectacular gorge in South Australia, admiring the rock, only to get home and find on the net that climbing was prohibited there, which made me want to climb there even more. It’s a good thing that it’s a 3 hour walk (uphill) to the gorge, after a 3 hour drive otherwise I might have been tempted :)