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Uluru ethics 29-Apr-2008 At 10:34:37 AM adgoneclimbing

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i'm not sure if I'm the only one.... but it annoys me that humans pave paths up everything 'sacred' or not to get a better view. Half Dome is a classic example, such a classic formation and ample other vantage points on other formations to get a similiar view, but hey lets put a massive engineering feat tourist ladder up the back.

I reckon there should places that are hard to get to or that you can't get to (there aren't many out there so why not have a few)... leaves a bit of mystery and maybe some respect for nature (that it is too hard for joe public to climb up).

This 'climb everything' attitude regardless of other issues that some climbers have is the sort of thinking that gets crags closed and landowners pissed off.