A Guide to Climbing Ayers Rock launched in Melbourne 5 December 2018. The book was officially released on Wednesday evening at Il Gambero in Lygon St Carlton with the assistance of Quadrant 's online Editor Roger Franklin. Thankyou Roger for your support. Only 323 left to climb before madness takes its toll. Photo credit Allan Kerr Copy of Marc's speech below: see also Those who would steal Ayers Rock at Quadrant A Guide to Climbing Ayers Rock It’s been surprising how difficult it has been to generate wider interest in the closure of an innocent outdoor activity that remains on the bucket list of many visitors to the red centre. Australian’s are pretty much asleep at the wheel on this and when they finally wake up, I think they will be surprised to find how much of life’s small pleasures they have been locked out of. By then of course, as we will likely see with the Climb up Ayers Rock, it will be too late to change anything. This book was born out of a...
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.