“If I travel to another country and there is a sacred site, an area of restricted access, I don’t enter or climb it, I respect it. It is the same here for Anangu. We welcome tourists here. We are not ...

Nature seemed to be siding with indigenous Australians' demand for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on Friday when high winds threatened to prematurely end the generations-old tradition of ...

Climbing the world’s largest monolith Uluru was banned Wednesday amid concerns it was becoming a “theme park”, undermining the giant red rock’s deep cultural significance. Scrambling up the symbol of ...

The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board announced in 2017 that tourists would be banned from climbing the rock on October 26, 2019. The announcement came after it was found that less than 20 per cent ...

YULARA, Australia (Reuters) - Australia's Uluru officially closed to climbers for good on Friday, although the last visitors to scale the sacred rock were allowed to stay until sunset, as a permanent ...

At more than one thousand feet high, Uluru is one of the most recognizable sites in Australia. On Friday (October 25), hordes of tourists flocked to climb the peak before a permanent ban takes effect ...

Large numbers of tourists are rushing to scale Uluru — also known as Ayers Rock — ahead of a looming ban on climbing a site sacred to indigenous Australians. Photographs of hundreds of people ...

ULURU, Australia (AP) — Nature seemed to be siding with indigenous Australians’ demand for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on Friday when high winds threatened to prematurely end the ...

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Tourists can carry on climbing Uluru, the massive rock in the heart of the Australia's central red desert, after the Australian government on Friday ruled out banning the ...