Thread: The Banning of Climbing Uluru (Ayers Rock) - thoughts on this article?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I'm not here to talk for them.

well thats a first.

I'd like to think I sometimes speak about interesting things I've learned about them, but I wouldn't presume to speak for them, or anyone else. Hopefully...

Here are 5 good reasons.

5 reasons why you shouldn't climb Uluru | NITV

Originally Posted by bob10

Here are 5 good reasons.

5 reasons why you shouldn't climb Uluru | NITV

none of those were good and #3 is a flat out lie.

Thanks Bob. I agree with all five reasons. As for number 3, if 30 people have died in 32 years of climbing, that certainly makes it dangerous.

"Also in Egypt, there was a religion that

worshipped the Sun

directly, and was among the first monotheistic religions: Atenism.

Sun worship

was prevalent in ancient Egyptian religion. The earliest deities associated with the

Sun

are all goddesses: Wadjet, Sekhmet, Hathor, Nut, Bast, Bat, and Menhit."

Wow, imagine the money the descendants of these people could make by charging us earthlings a fee for using "Their Sun" as it was part of their culture!
Oh, hang on, we know that the sun is just that, a "Sun", nothing more, nothing less, although one would have to admit that it plays a far more important role in mankind's existence than a large, sandstone rock protruding from the ground.

Considering the geological time frame in which the rock has existed the pettiness of the whole thing is ludicrous.
Ah, well, time to calm down and have a nice, cold can of "Rat Sars"!

RA the Egyptian sun god was a bit of a dude, but at 25 centuries BC he was a late comer compared with Aboriginal beliefs, which go back at least 60,000 years.

Ra - Wikipedia

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Thanks Bob. I agree with all five reasons. As for number 3, if 30 people have died in 32 years of climbing, that certainly makes it dangerous.

35 reported deaths, but it is such a pointless exercise. And it all grew out of a marketing ploy by tourism Australia, to get Australians to spend more of their tourism dollar at home. A much more interesting exercise is to take a guided tour around the bottom of the rock, learning something of the indigenous culture while you are at it. Besides, anyone in the know goes to Kings Canyon, a much better walk.

A Strange, Sad History of People Climbing Uluru - VICE