Outrage as visitors crowd Uluru in final weeks before long-awaited climb ban

A photo showing the path up Uluru clogged with climbers - just weeks before a ban to climb it comes into force - has outraged many Australians.

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

A surge in tourists to Uluru wanting to climb the rock before it's no longer allowed has prompted outrage among Australians who believe the traditional owners' wishes should be respected.  

Parks Australia has not recorded the exact number of visitors during the school holidays, but Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park manager, Mike Misso, said it's the busiest they've been in more than a decade. 

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