Climbing legends Series of posts celebrating climbers of Ayers Rock. On reaching the top, the feeling of exultation made everything worthwhile . . . though the sense of tremendous space on all sides, in this rolling ocean of desert, cannot be properly described... #7 A dash to Ayers Rock A dash to Ayers Rock, published 1972 In January 1953 the Centralian Advocate records the flying visit of Cyril E Good e, Rex Ingamells and Bert Phillips to Alice Springs. Bert and Cyril had left Melbourne some days previous driving " an ancient ... Rolls Royce buck board ute ", collecting Rex in Adelaide on the way through. The report is likely a few weeks old as the three were in the region around Christmas 1952. Not the best time to be travelling in Central Australia! Rolls Royce Ute owned by Connellan Airways on display at Alice Springs Airport, perhaps similar to the "poetmobile"? We met a few mates today In a town they call The Alice And so we joked the...
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.