Climbing legends Series of posts celebrating climbers of Ayers Rock. #9 Knox Grammar Scientific Expedition: First Schoolboys and Masters to climb the Rock, 1950 Knox Grammar boys walking across the top of Ayers Rock,1950. The Knox Grammar Ayers Rock Scientific Expedition is a remarkable achievement. There's a wonderful movie of the expedition " Red Horizo n ", narrated by Edrich Chaffer, one of the student participants, that we highly recommend viewing ( see Part 1 ). The expedition left Sydney on August 30, 1950 and travelling by plane, train and automobile arrived at Ayers Rock late on the evening of the 5th of September. The same trip these days takes about three and half hours. In Red Horizo n Edrich ends his narration about the expedition stating: "It set me on a career where I personally had learnt one of the most important lessons of all, and that was: how to think. And I found it invaluable in my career ever afterwards. And I ca...
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.