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"We, the Anangu traditional owners of
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, have
a responsibility to teach and safeguard
visitors to our land. We feel great
sadness when a person dies or is hurt
on our land. We would like to educate
people on the reasons we ask you not
to climb and if you choose to climb, we
ask that you do so safely."
[Anangu park guards]
"That's a really important sacred thing that you are climbing... You shouldn't climb. It's not the real thing about this place. The real thing is listening to everything. And maybe that makes you a bit sad. But anyway that's what we have to say. We are obliged by Tjukurpa to say. And all the tourists will brighten up and say, 'Oh I see. This is the right way. This is the thing that's right. This is the proper way: no climbing."
[Kunmanara, Traditional Owner]
Please, do not climb Uluru.