A 12-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after falling 20m while climbing Uluru

The incident comes less than two weeks before a ban preventing people from climbing the sacred landmark comes into force.

Numbers visiting the rock have swelled as time runs out before the climbing ban is introduced on 26 October. Source: AAP

A 12-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after falling approximately 20 metres while climbing Uluru with her family, just weeks before the climbing ban comes into force.

Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) flight nurse Troy Dicks, who attended the incident on Tuesday, said the girl was descending from the summit when she fell "some 20 metres", resulting in a fractured finger, multiple grazes and a possible fractured ankle.

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