Uluru, Australia — 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 ...

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 ...

Responsible world travelers know how important it is to respect the local culture. But a lack of respect from visitors is why climbing Uluru, in Australia, is about to become a thing of the past.

Tourists climb Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory YULARA, Australia (Reuters) - Australia's Uluru officially closed to climbers for good ...

Walk of shame: "I climbed Uluru" used to be the proud boast sold on T-shirts at the local tourist shop back in the mid-1990s. In recent years, however, climbing Uluru has seemed less of a boast and ...

YULARA, Australia, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Australia’s Uluru officially closed to climbers for good on Friday. The permanent ban takes effect after a decades-long fight by indigenous people to close the ...

SYDNEY — Australia on Wednesday announced plans to stop tourists climbing Uluru, the giant red rock sacred to Aborigines and formerly known as Ayers Rock, which draws hundreds of thousands of visito ...

Thousands of people are flocking to climb Uluru – Australia’s sacred giant monolith – before a ban comes into force at the end of October. From October 26, visitors to Uluru, known for many years as ...

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 ...

The climb ban goes into effect after repeated requests for people not to climb. Australia's landmark sandstone, considered a site of "great spiritual significance," has been turned into something of a ...