Special Australia Day Post Climbing Tales This series celebrates Uluru climbing experiences posted online. #4 Oakey High School excursion 1976 School excursions to Ayers Rock have been a feature of tourism to central Australia since the early 1950s. The first excursion took place in 1950 when a group of school boys from Knox Grammer visited Ayers Rock. The trip featured scientific studies of flora, fauna, geology and geography. Anthropologist Charles Montford accompanied the boys and undertook a survey of cave paintings and helped the group witness an initiation ceremony. A group of 23 boys climbed the rock on 7 September 1950 leaving their names in the summit cairn. We'll provide more details about this trip in a later post. SMH 13 September 1950 Schools are still journeying out to Ayers Rock and despite pressure from Parks Australia, some groups are still managing to climb it; such as this great group of overjoyed young adventurers from 2014 - below (if ...
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.