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 ...

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 ...

Aboriginal theories about the creation of the Uluru rock formation vary and are rarely shared with outsiders, but the Anangu people are clear about its hallowed place in their heritage. It’s where the ...

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 ...

If you ban it, they will come. That was the case at Uluru, the sacred red rock in Australia’s Northern Territory, where tourists flocked to make a final ascent before a permanent ban on climbing came ...

When misbehaving tourists get in trouble, who foots the bill? Australians aren’t happy with three tourists who reportedly ignored pleas not to climb Uluru (a sandstone monolith Uluru-Kata Tjuta ...

If you haven’t climbed Uluru by now, it’s unlikely you ever will. The giant monolith in Australia’s Red Centre will be closed to climbers from October 26, a decision made out of respect for the land’s ...

There is a beautiful rock in the middle of Australia sometimes known as Ayers Rock, but now more commonly known by its traditional Indigenous name, Uluru. The red rock that stands sensationally in the ...

Just before I arrived at Uluru, the sacred red rock monolith in the middle of Australia, an important Aboriginal elder there passed away. I first heard about his death from a ticket agent at the Alice ...