Text of letter sent to the UN World Heritage Committee. In banning climbing of Ayers Rock Parks Australia and the Park Board risk having the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park removed from the World Heritage List. Climbing route and lookout location in map submitted with the 1987 World Heritage Nomination. Ms Mechtild Rössler DIRECTOR OF THE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE CENTRE World Heritage Centre UNESCO 7, place de Fontenoy 75352 Paris 07 SP FRANCE RE: WORLD HERITAGE IN DANGER: CLOSURE OF ULURU/AYERS ROCK CLIMB BREACHES WORLD HERITAGE LISTING Dear Ms Rössler, In 1987 the Australian Government nominated Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park for the World Heritage List based on its outstanding Landscape values. The nomination was accepted by the UNWHC and the site was proclaimed a WORLD HERITAGE SITE in 1987. World Heritage sites are places that are important to and belong to everyone, regardless of where they are located or who owns the land on which they occur. They are a...
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.