LEGEND OF THE CLIMB - Graeme Phillips 996! Series of posts celebrating climbers of Ayers Rock #13. Graeme Phillips standing on the summit cairn (on right), late 1960s (photo from Shirley Goodman. While discussing our iconic Climb with Macca on the ABC his producer handed me a note with a phone number and said the person on it wanted to speak to me about the Climb. After the interview, I placed this slip of paper on the shelf and it took me a few weeks to get around to calling the number. I'm so glad I did, as, through the wonderful Shirley Goodman, whose name was on that slip of paper, I have learnt a small part of the remarkable story of the late Graeme Phillips. Graeme Phillips ( photo from ABC report) In my book " A guide to Climbing Ayers Rock " I credit Howard Rust as the person who climbed the rock the most times (100) and Graeme Phillips as the man who climbed the most different routes (7). I thought that 100 climbs was a remarkable effort and given ...
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.