Copy of letter sent to Premier of NSW Gladys Berejiklian Premier of NSW Hon Gladys Berejiklian MP GPO Box 5341 Sydney NSW 2001 RE: BAN ON MT WARNING SUMMIT WALK AND NATIONAL PARK Dear Premier, I draw your attention to the imminent ban on the Mt Warning Summit Walk and closure of the Wollumbin National Park in northern NSW by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). The ban is not justified by the available evidence and NPWS have mislead the Government on issues of safety and Aboriginal views about the climb for decades. The summit trail is the main feature in the park and was built by volunteers in 1909. It is about 4.4km long. The first 4km are a gentle walk on a well graded track, the last several 100m involve a rock scramble that NPWS described in 1998 as “a fantastic walk” with “dazzling views”. In 1929 the area was listed as a National Park. Speaking at the opening ceremony at the summit local Alderman A. B. Black dedicated the park to the people ...
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.