Leading Blue Mountains environmentalist Keith Muir has called the shutdown of the Blue Mountains National Park a gross “overreaction” by the Parks Service, akin to closing all beaches along the 2000km New South Wales coastline after a fatal shark attack such as at Little Bay on 16th February 2022. That didn’t happen. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) management […]
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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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We are perplexed by the thrill-seeking desire of certain bushwalking clubs to promote dangerous chasm “exposure“. Bushwalking is on-track bushwalking. Then again adventurous bushwalking clubs beg to differ, insisting that bushwalking can do whatever they want and go wherever they choose – bush-bashing through sensitive ecology, vertical rock scrambling, canyoning, lilo canyoning, rock climbing. But are such heightened hazardous activities […]
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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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