As the state moves to protect Indigenous site Whinpullin, or Minto Crag, climbing groups realise ‘you can’t just go charging in’
To the Ugarapul people south-west of Brisbane, the grass trees, or whinpullin, are protectors of mountains.
Among these is Minto Crag, an arc of rocky ridge and forest that looms over the cattle country of the Coochin Coochin valley. But in early 2020, when whispers of new happenings at a secluded spot on the crag reached the ears of the people who live in Whinpullin’s shadow, they quickly discovered the crag would need greater protection than that offered by its grass trees.
Gillett’s son-in law is Aboriginal teacher and writer David Spillman, who lives on a property that takes in part of Minto Crag. He says the rock harbours the stories of several ancestor spirits – including Warrayum – and is linked to rainbow serpent and other origin stories around the country.Gillett says Whinpullin, which forms something of a curtain at her back door, is “very significant, culturally and ecologically” to the district.
“It really was, in terms of rock climbing potential, world class,” he says. “It would have been one of the world’s hardest climbs. It would have been internationally famous.”
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