Japanese tourist dies climbing Australia's Uluru

July 4, 2018
Tourist have been able to scale the Outback rock since the 1960s.

A Japanese tourist has died after collapsing on Uluru, six months before a climbing ban comes into force at the sacred indigenous site.

NT Police say the 76-year-old man collapsed and lost consciousness while climbing yesterday afternoon and was flown to the nearby Yulara health clinic but couldn't be revived.

The ABC has reported the man was a Japanese tourist.

His death is not being treated as suspicious and a report is being prepared for the coroner, police said.

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