Uluru-Kata Tjuta Board of Management Lasseter Highway Yulara NT 0872 Subject : Ayers Rock Summit Climb To the Uluru-Kata Tjuta Board of Management and Land Owners We are looking to open a dialogue with Park Owners about reopening the Ayers Rock climb. The world-renowned walk (climb for some) to the summit of our greatest natural wonder – Ayers Rock, was closed to the public on the basis of myths and misinformation on Saturday 26 October 2019. This despite promises given at the time of the handover that there would be no change to tourist access! It's impossible to put a dollar figure on the social cost of the closure - the loss of awe and wonder for 1,000,000s of visitors, but we can estimate the economic damage and it is extraordinary. Figures from Parks Australia show a three year average (2014-2016) of 295,000 visitors prior to the ban being announced in late 2017. Visitor numbers exploded between 2017 and the end of 2019 as 1000s and 1000s of people tri...
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.