Summit Photos: celebrating some great photos taken at the summit of Ayers Rock #1 Kathy Ferguson May 1964 This nice black and white portrait of Kathy Ferguson taken in May 1964 shows the summit cairn prior to the construction of the current directional plinth. The summit was established as a trigonometric point in 1958 . The current directional table was built in 1970. Caption reads: Miss Kathy Ferguson of Jersey in the Channel Islands, an early climber at the cairn on top of The Rock; she was one of a small group of five on an Ansett-Pioneer tour who reached the summit in May 1964. (Photo from P.88 of Storm over Uluru: The greatest Hoax of all by Peter B. English). The first woman to climb the rock was Isabella Foy who ascended with her husband and son on the on the 28th of May 1936. The second woman to have climbed the rock and left her name in the small tin on the cairn was Englishwoman, Beryl Miles, Authoress of The Stars My Blanket , wh...
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.