Intellectual freedom sold out debating the Climb. I have been a member of the Geological Society of Australia , since the mid-1990s. While there has been no official statement from the society about the ban on climbing Ayers Rock the society newsletter (TAG - short for The Australian Geologist ) did publish an essay supporting the climb by me in the March 2018 issue. This generated some debate in the following issue from a few who think that the rock should not be scaled, fair enough. In the December 2018 issue of TAG, there was an advertisement for my Book " A guide to climbing Ayers Rock ". This is how the ad appeared, on page 45 near the last page. TAG December 2018, page 45 The ad triggered a response from U niversity of Adelaide lecturer Dr Kathryn Amos . Dr Amos was gobsmacked by the appearance of the advert in the newsletter and her letter appeared in the March 2019 issue of The Australian Geologist (TAG)... TAG March 2019, page 9. While I welcome ...
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.