Mt Arapiles is one of the world's best rock climbing destinations. For decades people have flocked to this remote western Victorian mountain to climb its stunning crags. It seems this will no longer be the case with the woke Victorian Government now putting most of the mountain under lock and key with bans to most of the routes. In doing so it has started a war with the climbing community it will inevitably lose. If you want to climb...do it! “It’s a wipeout folks. The literal beating heart of climbing in Australia has been ripped out and discarded’’ The Australian's John Fergusson reports: Rock climbing at the world famous Mt Arapiles in Victoria will be gutted under Labor after Parks Victoria cited secretive cultural heritage investigations as the driving force behind the decision. The site is one of the world’s most significant rock climbing areas and arguably Australia’s nursery for the pursuit. Up to half of all routes are predicted to be shut. The ban...
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.