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Uluru climbing ban: Tourists to scale sacred rock for final time

October 24, 2019
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Uluru climbing ban: Tourists to scale sacred rock for final time

Uluru climbing ban: Tourists to scale sacred rock for final time

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Media captionUluru tourist: "It is probably disrespectful but we climbed"

Huge crowds will attempt to scramble up Australia's Uluru on Friday before a ban on the climb takes effect.

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The giant monolith – once better known to visitors as Ayers Rock – will be permanently off limits from Saturday.

Uluru is sacred to its indigenous custodians, the Anangu people, who have long implored tourists not to climb.

Only 16% of visitors went up in 2017 – when the ban was announced – but the climb has been packed in recent weeks.

Photos of people in lines snaking up Uluru in past months have even drawn comparisons to recent scenes on Mount Everest.

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Image caption Thousands of tourists have rushed to climb the rock before the activity is banned

One social media user posted a timelapse showing the massive queue at Uluru just one day before the closure.

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One day out from Uluru climb closure, this is the line at 7am. pic.twitter.com/fxs344H6fV

— Oliver Gordon (@olgordon) October 23, 2019

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Hundreds of people queued on Friday to make the climb, but it remained temporarily closed due to strong winds. Park officials said they would provide regular updates.

Since the 1950s, dozens of people have died on Uluru due to accidents, dehydration and other heat-related events. In 2018, a Japanese tourist died while attempting to ascend one of the steepest parts of the rock.

Uluru is 348m (1,142ft) high, and the climb is steep and can be slippery. Temperatures in the area can also reach 47C (116F) in the summer.

In 2017, the board of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park voted unanimously to end the climb because of the spiritual significance of the site, as well as safety and environmental reasons.

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One Anangu man told the BBC that Uluru was a "very sacred place, [it's] like our church".

"People right around the world… they just come and climb it. They've got no respect," said Rameth Thomas.

There are several signs at the base of Uluru that urge tourists not to climb, but many have proceeded anyway.

"It's difficult to see what that significance is," one man who climbed this week told the BBC. "It's a rock. It's supposed to be climbed."

Nearby campgrounds and hotels were fully booked this week. This had led to tourists camping illegally and dumping waste, locals said.

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Image caption Tourists have been arriving at Uluru in large numbers

The climb's closure is not expected to significantly affect visitor rates to the national park, officials and tourism operators say.

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