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“I’m respectfully asking them not to climb and being respectful in the sense that if they do choose to climb I ask them to be safe,” he said. “When someone does get hurt or dies we have to do sorry business, it’s an inner responsibility that we feel. The start of the track at Mt Beerwah. Picture: Letea Cavander The start of the track at Mt Beerwah. Picture: Letea Cavander “Because we feel responsible for the death or the injury.” Mr Murphy’s goal is to have the climb closed. “I think it’s time, there’s been enough talk and enough deaths,” he said.

That is what the locals are saying.  It is not merely an Abo 'sacred' thing.