For campers ready to take the great Australian outdoors to the next level, an overnight stay on the side of a sheer 300-metre cliff face in Mount Buffalo National Park has been launched and it s just a four-hour drive from Melbourne. In Australia s first and the world s highest cliff camping experience, guests abseil down to the portaledge on the north wall of Mount Buffalo Gorge for a three-course meal and overnight stay before waking to a spectacular sunrise, coffee and breakfast the next morning and an optional multi-pitch abseil to the valley floor. Unleashed Unlimited s Andrew Dawson, who founded the company with his brother, Howie, says that as young rock climbers in Australia they d see images of people sleeping on portaledges on giant walls in places such as Yosemite and always wanted to know what it would be like.
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National parks authorities fear visitors are venturing dangerously unprepared into the bush, inspired by social media images and taking serious risks after emerging from months of lockdown in the city.
Mount Buller is among the locations where emergency services have carried out the most high angle rescues.
Growing concerns about the summer holidays come as new figures showed Mount Buller, Mount Buffalo, Taggerty and Arapiles were locations where emergency services were conducting the most treacherous and complex rescues at great heights.
Figures supplied by the Victoria State Emergency Service showed it conducted 365 high-angle rescues in the five years to 2020 across the state. These are complex rescue operations carried out at major heights with slopes of at least 60 degrees.
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National parks authorities fear visitors are venturing dangerously unprepared into the bush, inspired by social media images and taking serious risks after emerging from months of lockdown in the city.
Mount Buller is among the locations where emergency services have carried out the most high angle rescues.
Growing concerns about the summer holidays come as new figures showed Mount Buller, Mount Buffalo, Taggerty and Arapiles were locations where emergency services were conducting the most treacherous and complex rescues at great heights.
Figures supplied by the Victoria State Emergency Service showed it conducted 365 high-angle rescues in the five years to 2020 across the state. These are complex rescue operations carried out at major heights with slopes of at least 60 degrees.