AYERS ROCK DAY 2026 Celebrating the anniversary of the first Climb 20 July 1873. 153 years since the enlightenment arrived, 2460 days since the stone age returned. Climbing legends #2 Series of posts celebrating climbers of Ayers Rock. #2 William Christie Gosse - first documented climb Gosse's sketch of Uluru showing SW corner near Multijuju waterhole, drawn from about -25.35376, 131.03281. For recent photo showing similar view click here . You can read WC Gosse's account of his explorations in central Australia via the Gutenberg Project ( HERE ). In 1872 Gosse was charged with finding a route from central Australia to Western Australia. He came across the rock he named "Ayers", after the SA governor Sir Henry Ayers, on the 19th of July 1873 and was the first European to scale the summit. You can read more about William Gosse at the ANU's dictionary of Australian Biography . Here's Gosse's diary entry for the 20th of July 1873 documenting his climb to t...
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.