Australia's iconic rock Uluru scaled by final climbers

ULURU, Australia -- Nature seemed to be siding with indigenous Australians' demand for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on Friday when high winds threatened to prematurely end the generations-old tradition of climbing the sandstone monolith. Rangers warned hundreds of anxious tourists who gathered at the base of the iconic rock before dawn that they would miss their last opportunity to ever scale its 348-metre summit unless blustery conditions subsided. But the winds calmed and the first o