Some letters in the Sydney Morning Herald 2 November 2017 With respect, Uluru belongs to the many, not the few The impending closure of the famous Uluru climbing track, while certainly understandable from a sacral point of view, from a social point of view seems to be based on the pretence that the rock is essentially owned by one group of people, rather than to be respectfully shared by all ("A rock, and a barred space", November 2). In 2005, I and many other domestic and international tourists conscientiously ascended the spine of the rock in the small window of opportunity that exists just after dawn. We did not spit on it, or leave rubbish, or etch our initials onto the hallowed surface. Unlike other man-made buildings or houses of worship, Uluru has physically existed well before human eyes first gazed upon its grandiose geographic majesty, and so should be more than the ultimate preserve of only a few. It forms part of our historic landscape, which should not be den...
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.