The Rock

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Huge crowds of people scrambled to Australia, Uluru, for The Last time on Friday , before a ban on climbing The Sacred Rock .

The huge Monolith Once better known to visitors as Ayers Rock - is permanently outside of the borders of Saturday.

Uluru is sacred to climb for the native custodians, the Anangu people, who begged for a long time the tourists.

Only 16% of the visitors went out in 2017, When the ban was announced, But The Climb has been Packed into The Last few weeks.

The Last climber before a delayed start due to dangerously strong Winds - One of the Many Reasons , Uluru was closed to people who reach The Summit over The Years .

The feet Can be dangerous, with dozens dying since the 1950s. The High temperatures in the Region, the reach 47C (116F) in the summer, my visitors have died from dehydration and other heat-related events.

But the steep and slippery ascent to The Summit - the 348m (1,142 ft) high, Can also as dangerous. Only in The Last year, a Japanese tourist died while trying to ascend One of the steepest parts of The Rock .

However, according to the park officials as to the rise for sure, hundreds of people on the hike Made up on Friday .

thousands of tourists have thrown The Rock to climb before the activity is forbidden

in the past few months, comparisons have been employed in The Final scenes on Mount Everest .

A Social Media user posted a time lapse shows the huge queue at Uluru on Thursday.

The gate was closed due to 16:00 local time (06:30 GMT) on Friday . Once people officials, said to come with a metal chain as a climbing aid, would be immediately dismantled.

Why is the ascension?

In the year 2017, the Board of management of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park , has unanimously at the end of The Climb , because of the spiritual importance of the place as well as for safety and environmental reasons.

An Anangu man from the BBC said that Uluru was a "very Holy place, [it is] how our Church".

"people around The World . come and climb. You have No Respect ," said Rameth Thomas .

aboriginal argues that elders have a long time, the people should not be allowed to climb The Rock

There are several symptoms, at The Base of Uluru, the non-urge to climb the tourists, because the place is sacred-value.

"It is hard to see what this meaning is," a man who climbed This Week , the BBC said. "It's a Rock . It is to be mounted. "

'time to rest and heal'

Phil Mercer, Bbc News at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

It was the joy had asked, as a sign that visitors were not far to walk to Uluru, the park rangers at The Base of the big Red Rock .

to stop A long struggle by the traditional owners, visitors scaling was over The Summit at last. An aboriginal elder said that it was time To Let these Holy places to "rest and heal".

There was a mockery of a small group of Indigenous women. "Get off The Rock " they cried, as two men from Germany - father and Son - make their way to the bottom.

If The Last group is descended of the climbers, for The Last time with The Heat of the relentless afternoon sun on their faces, languages, you have to climb over your joy to One of Australia's most famous places. A visitor from Sydney said that at The Top it was like being on another planet, while a mom of Darwin told me that she hoped that One Day lifted the ban.

in the vicinity of campsites and hotels were Fully Booked This Week . This had led to the tourists camping waste illegally and dumping, the locals said.

The rise of the closure is expected to affect not say much visitors prices in the National Park officials and tourism operators.

tourists arrival at Uluru in large numbers, What is Uluru and The Sacred stories?

The Anangu believe that in the beginning The World was shapeless and drab. Ancestral beings emerged from this void and journeyed through The Land , creating all living species and forms.

Uluru is carried out, the Physical Evidence of the exploits of ancestral beings in creation time.

One such story is that of Lungkata, the greedy and dishonest blue-tongue lizard, came to Uluru from the North and stole meat from Emu. If Emu followed him back to his cave, Lungkata ignored him.

"He went back to sleep, he was asleep," One of Uluru's indigenous custodians, Pamela Taylor, said the BBC, in the past year. "The EMU was very angry and Made a fire, and it went up in The Cave , and The Smoke blocked him and he fell over. "

Ms Taylor pointed to a huge blue patch on the Uluru, which is to say, it was where Lungkata burnt body rolled down and left a mark.

"did He steal the bad things to go to. This is why we Tell the kids to go to steal things, because you get the penalty, such as Lungkata. "

they added some stories to Tell Holy to.

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Source of news: bbc.com