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Australia's famed Uluru outback monolith to be closed to climbers
Reuters ^
| 11-1-2107
| Zalika Rizmal
Posted on 11/04/2017 11:49:45 AM PDT by Eddie01
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australias world-famous Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, will be closed to climbers from 2019, its management board said on Wednesday, ending a decades-long campaign by Aborigines to protect their sacred monolith in the Northern Territory.
A board of eight traditional owners and four government officials voted unanimously to close the rock to climbers, a spokesperson told Reuters.
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat; History; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: aborigines; australia; closed; uluru
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posted on
11/04/2017 11:49:45 AM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: Eddie01
World’s largest boulder; glad I climbed it when I had the chance.
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posted on
11/04/2017 11:57:35 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
To: SkyDancer
What was it like when you climbed it, SkyDancer? How was the climate? What time of day did you do it?? Thanks!
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posted on
11/04/2017 12:04:11 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: Eddie01
At least they still have Ayers Rock. Kinda looks the same, to be honest.
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posted on
11/04/2017 12:14:47 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
To: Eddie01
When you ban Uluru Rock climbers from climbing Uluru Rock then only Uluru Rock outlaw climbers will climb Uluru Rock.
Or something like that.
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posted on
11/04/2017 12:15:12 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Eddie01
Well there goes the Tourist Dollars
To: Ken522
Okay, the initial climb is very steep and there's a chain hand rail to help you along. About every fifty feet or so people are sitting trying to catch their breath then move on to what's the lower shelf where everybody usually stops; however there's a higher shelf (top lookout) that has no safety chain to hold on to and is only about eight feet wide with a drop off on either side (looong way down) - on the top the wind is blowing really hard. There's a guest book there for people to sign. It's harder going down than up.
Hope this helped.
I'm glad they're closing it down, tourists were really trashing it.
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posted on
11/04/2017 12:20:16 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
To: SkyDancer
Heck with your connections I would have taken a helicopter
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posted on
11/04/2017 12:23:46 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: VanDeKoik
At least they still have Ayers Rock. Kinda looks the same, to be honest.
...
According to the article it’s one and the same. I guess when they renamed it that was a sign that ignorance would rule. It’s a rock. Like the rock in Saudi Arabia it’s not to be worshiped.
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posted on
11/04/2017 12:26:59 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: Vaquero
Nope. No aircraft allowed, no sky diving. You want on top, you climb it.
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posted on
11/04/2017 12:31:48 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
To: SkyDancer
That rock has best cliff hang gliding site evah written all over it.
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posted on
11/04/2017 12:38:50 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: SkyDancer
Pass😎👍
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posted on
11/04/2017 12:45:18 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: SkyDancer
Isn’t that where the unpleasantness with Azaria Chamberlain happened?
To: Eddie01
Not much different than here where our aboriginals make similar demands
Try climbing a nice hoodoo on Navajo or Zuni or Hopi lands
Beg and $$
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posted on
11/04/2017 1:27:00 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
To: nickcarraway
Yep - also there’s a brief mention of it in the movie Quigly Down Under
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posted on
11/04/2017 1:41:15 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/04/2017 1:56:29 PM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: Eddie01
Of course it’s “sacred.” To hear the natives everywhere talk, every rock and pebble is sacred. Until you give them money ...
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posted on
11/04/2017 1:58:57 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Eddie01
Good! I’m glad that happened.
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posted on
11/04/2017 2:41:13 PM PDT
by
Daniel Ramsey
(Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
To: SkyDancer
I climbed it in 1987. Quite a view from the top.
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posted on
11/04/2017 3:03:08 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
To: Moonman62
Ayers Rock is one of three things to climb to join the Pacific Rim Climbers Club. The other two are Diamond Head and Mt. Fuji. I still need Fuji to complete the triumvirate.
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posted on
11/04/2017 3:24:45 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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