On a very windy Sunday morning New Zealand rock climber Richard Mills (36) with his climbing buddy tackled one of more than a dozen cliff ‘walls’ off Sublime Point, Leura. But a rock (about 30cm across) dislodged and fell on Mill’s head. His buddy quickly called emergency services and local Blue Mountains Police Rescue from Katoomba and NSW Ambulance Special […]
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At Nature Trail, we happened to be holidaying in New Zealand’s South Island at the time of this latest terrible Blue Mountains tragedy. Photo of our Milford Sound cruise above (Click image to enlarge plasma screen view) We chose and recommend Mitre Peak Cruises for safety first, quality in every way, being local and very personable. Visit: ^https://www.mitrepeak.com/) So, we only […]
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Yesterday the New South Wales Parks Service decided to blanketly close the entire Blue Mountains National Park of some 2690 km2 indefinitely. The huge area extends pretty much from Bilpin to Kanangra and from Warragamba Dam to Mount Victoria. The reason for the blacket closure is simply the likelihood of well, rain. What? Rain in the Blue Mountains? Who would […]
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Tragically again, two more people have been killed by a landslip in the Jamison Valley just south of the village of Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains. Yesterday, Monday 4th April 2022, a group of tourists (a family of five from Britain) embarked on an unguided day hike along the Wentworth Pass loop track. They likely followed the UK-based website […]
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Yet another negligent bushwalking club has lost a member to planned misadventure commonly referred to as ‘Clifftop Exposure‘ it seems, aka hiking at the cliff edge. On Sunday afternoon 17th October 2021, a 33-year-old woman with five hiking colleagues from Sydney was hiking along the clifftop along Mount Solitary (trekking) Track when she fell about 40 metres tragically to her […]
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Yes, this is a cliff face and there is no track up or down it. Access should be wisely left to trained and experienced rock climbers and abseilers having the right gear, like starting with adequate 60m long 10mm diameter static nylon climbing ropes, climbing helmet and shoes, harness, figure eight, etc. But then Nature Trail is not a rockclimbing […]
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On 24th February, I registered with the bushwalking forum, Bushwalk Australia, and proceeded to scribe and submit my first post concerning the tragic deaths of two on a Wollongambe canyoning trip in the Blue Mountains National Park on 2nd January 2021 by some bushwalking club, as follows: “Dear All, Well, where is Blue Mountains Best Practice for Canyoning? Blue Mountains […]
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BASE jumping in the Blue Mountains
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Wollangambe Canyon might need some more warning signage, if only people would heed the advice. Two weeks after the so-called “whirlpool” tragedy on Saturday 2nd January, when two women drowned on a bushwalking club lilo trip, two more lilo tourists got themselves lost in the same canyon and had to be rescued. This time they were more downstream in what […]
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We read sadly that two more visitors to the Blue Mountains partaking on a canyoning trip have just perished. Last Saturday 2nd January 2021 at around 2:30pm, two participants with the locally based Upper Blue Mountains Bushwalking Club have tragically drowned while liloing in Wollangambe Canyon. This increasingly popular wet canyon is situated a few kilometres north of Mount Wilson […]
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Tragically, just before midday smoko on Wednesday 29th November 2017, three contractors with the NSW NPWS (Parks Service) were suddenly struck by a boulder fall from some 10 metres above them. They were repairing a cliff section along the historic National Pass in the Blue Mountains National Park at Wentworth Falls. These were the boulders. At the time of the […]
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