Last day at Disneyland - a first hand account of the end of the iconic climb While Right to Climb could not attend the end of climbing at Ayers Rock last week we received the following firsthand account of how the day panned out from veteran climber Gerry Krieg. It seems Gerry has the honour of being the very last paying guest to head up the Rock. The behaviour of Parks officials in attempting to censor and control the flow of information as he came down offers a glimpse into the workings of a new police state now operating at the Park. That they were aided and abetted by a passive media mob says much about the state of the press in the country. Why would government need to censor them when they happily censor themselves? With a vision of tourism this dark how long will what is left of “Disneyland” survive? FINAL DAY AT ULURU / AYERS ROCK - the secret business THE MORNING 25 Oct 2019 Given what later occurred it is worthy to record some context from earlier in the day. W...
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.