Australia | At WH-listed Uluru-Kata Tjuta NP, climbers overwhelming sacred monolith as ban nears

SYDNEY, Australia — It is an unusual sight for the famous but remote sandstone monolith known as Uluru: dense lines of eager climbers snaking up its reddish-brown surface, headed toward the peak of a rock sacred to the Indigenous Australians who live nearby.

Tourists are flocking to Uluru because, as of Oct. 26, they will be prohibited from scaling the 1,141-foot-tall rock, whose auburn ridges rise incongruously from the flat central Australia scrubland that surrounds them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/world/australia/uluru-climbing-ban.html

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