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Summit Cairn 1962

Summit Cairn 1962.
There are few photos online showing the survey cairn erected by National Mapping Surveyor Reginald Arthur Ford in 1958. This photo from the Film Australia Collection shows the cairn in 1962. The dog (kelpie?) a sign of the less regulated nature of the National Park in the 1960s. I understand it is a still from a short film "Äppointment with Alice"-- see below.

Credit: National Film and Sound Archive. 

Appointment with Alice

A description of the tourist attractions of Central Australia.
Series: Australia Presents | Episode: 1 | Year: 1962 | Total Duration: 15 Minutes
Afghan cameleer, Sado.Couple with dog, reach the stone cairn at the top of Uluru (Ayers Rock).Landscape with tree and waterfall.People standing along the edge of Finke River waterhole.Pilot arriving in small plane near the foot of Uluru (Ayers Rock). A large crater in side of Uluru is known as "the brain".
Ruins in old gold mining town of Arltunga.Ruins in old gold mining town of Arltunga.Ruins in old gold mining town of Artunga.Stanley Chasm.Two Aboriginal men, carrying spears, drinking from the waterhole at Ross River.
View of Kata Tjuta (the Olgas).Visitors walking on a bush track through old growth forests.
CU "brain" crater marking in Uluru (Ayers Rock) and high angle WS of the huge "Womens Cave" dwarfing visitors. Tilt to roof of cave with eroded sandstone forming hanging rocks. VS "Roo Tail" rocky outcrop on Uluru with VS of tourist climbing between it and the rock. LS then GS couple and dog climbing up the western slope of Uluru. WS climbers reaching stone cairn at top of Uluru. CU woman taking photograph of the view. WS with Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) across plain. MS of woman leaving signature in small visitor's book keep in stone cairn. WS Uluru in late afternoon light.




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