Official Launch of A GUIDE TO CLIMBING AYERS ROCK in Melbourne next week. Come and celebrate the launch and release of Marc Hendrickx's new book: 5th of December Click HERE for details. A guide to climbing Ayers Rock -- Marc Hendrickx With Roger Franklin, online editor of Quadrant, launching this important book. What are they saying about this book I recently visited Ayers Rock for the first time – and yes, many of the locals still call it by that name, or more simply, The Rock. I never climbed it but I did fly over it in a helicopter. That night I met some elders (the real type!) who did the most authentic and most beautiful welcoming I have ever witnessed. I wanted more. After that experience, I could not help but feel how wonderful it would be to climb The Rock, but only in the presence of a guide who has the same authenticity as the elders I met that day. If managed properly, I believe regulated climbing could benefit both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
Our mountains belong to all of us. The Right to Climb them and bask in their views that inspire awe and wonder is as old as the human genome. This long-established cultural tradition is under threat by a small group of bureaucrats determined to impose their way on the rest of the world. It is right to Climb because we have the Right to climb. If you don’t exercise your rights you lose them. Don't let petty nanny state bureaucrats take them away.