Some humans are stupid (Day 3)

I was raised to respect other cultures. Since the hand over of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park to the Anangu people the first Australians hold the rock as sacred. They will not forbid you from climbing Uluru, but expect you to show some respect by not climbing. At the base of the walk there is a sign in 6 different languages expressing the wishes of the traditional owners of the land.

We witnessed the amount of disrespect some people had for these wishes ourselves. Tour bus after tour bus unloaded more people. These people are so excited to climb the rock, they run to the base and start the climb.

We don't climb so why the bloody hell do you climb!

It was amusing to watch people climb Uluru. No less than 35 people have died on this endeavour. If you just round the corner, there are 8 plaques which commemorate the passing of individuals claimed by the very difficult and dangerous climb. You see people start and chicken off. Ones that just stop on the incline petrified with fear. Others bumming it down or the ones that grab tightly to the chain. I even saw a stupid individual jog down to help his partner crying on the incline! One slip and many people will die or get hurt.

SERIOUSLY PEOPLE, STOP THIS MADNESS!!!

You read about how people think it is okay to climb, because they paid park entry fees. How just because Uluru is sacred to the first Australians it isn't relevant to them so they climb. Well how about this climbers! What about the environmental reasons to stop you damaging Uluru!

The site is a source that sustains life; the climbers damage this ecosystem and will spoil it for countless generations of humans and destroy the wildlife Uluru supports. If you want to know more see this link  or ask the rangers about the contaminated waterholes at the base of Uluru.

You can see the white path climbers have eroded on the rock