Uluru · The Rock You May Not Climb

Uluru stands in the desert at the centre of the Australian continent, a single vast sandstone rock that turns orange-red at sunrise and sunset, its walls carrying springs, caves and rock art left over tens of thousands of years.

The Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the place, say that everything here was made by the ancestors of the Dreaming: the stones, the caves and the cracks are what they left as they walked. Many of the stories are told only within the community.

The climbing route closed permanently in 2019. The park authority’s words are these: this is not a mountain to be climbed.

Folklore / Northern Territory · Australia / Time immemorial