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Coolest features to climb in Australia 4-Dec-2015 At 9:08:21 PM PeterW

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On 4/12/2015 Goshen wrote:
>For what it's worth; climbing Uluru's 300m faces like we climb everything
>else (ropes, bolts etc); would be exceedingly tedious after even the first
>15m of the same move over and over again. Crimp to rail to crimp to sidepull
>to rail to crimp, repeat.

Are you aware that Uluru was "climbed" back in the 70's? The route went up the Kangaroo Tail, and from memory started with quite a long chimney. I think the rest of the route went up a water gully. I'm fairly sure there were no bolts (not a lot of other gear either!) as keeping a low profile (orange t-shirts, orange-painted gear!) was critical after being ordered off the rock at shotgun point on a previous attempt!