Climbing legends Series of posts celebrating climbers of Ayers Rock. #4 Allan David Breaden and W Oliver 2nd to climb Allan Breaden at Hernbury Station, approx. 1930. Photo Credit. Allan Breaden and W Oliver climbed the rock in 1897 as part of a prospecting party . Here's Breaden's Journal entry for March 4 1897 Breaden's journal available Mitchell Library. Breaden is reported as likely the first, along with Oliver (Coulthard??) to undertake an west to east traverse of the rock. "Anent Ayers Rock, again in the recent news. Mr. McKenzie told me that he knew two bushmen, Bob Coulthard* and Alan Breaden, who scaled up the western side and left their names there in a baking powder tin, and then carefully tobogganing down the east side." *This is the only mention of Bob Coulthard climbing. Perhaps McKenzie means Oliver? Further details about Breaden in this bio from The Mail 1936 . "STOLEN by the blacks when he was two years old at Booboo...
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.