Climbing legends Series of posts celebrating climbers of Ayers Rock. #10 Lauri Sheard: An Australian youth among desert Aborigines Lauri E Sheard 1922-1942 Lauri Sheard was the son of Mountford's friend Harold Sheard, and was aged 18 when he accompanied Mountford on this Expedition in 1940. During the trip Lauri Sheard recorded his experiences in a diary, later published as An Australian youth among desert Aborigines , and took almost 1000 photographs of his own. Lauri's account of his climb from his diary reprinted below: Wednesday August 7, 1940 We packed our gear and lunch on the camels and set off once around the eastern end of the rock. Proceeding to the climbing slope, this time the position reversed, I went up and Mountford stayed below taking photographs, , using the colour cine camera. The climb was not terrifically steep, but it was jolly hard work, as for a part of the way we went on hands and knees, but once over the steeper pitches and wit...
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.