Australia | At WH-listed Uluru-Kata Tjuta NP, climbers overwhelming sacred monolith as ban nears
- Dave Harmon, PW editor
- Jul 11, 2019
- 1 min read
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.
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