July 20 marked 150 years since the first documented account of climbing Australia’s famous Ayers Rock. While climbing ‘The Rock’ likely dates back into the waning stages of the Pleistocene when humans first arrived in the red centre some 25,000 years ago, the first person to make a record of the climb was an explorer and surveyor William Christie Gosse (1842-1881).
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