‘Too special a place’: how an eclectic Queensland alliance saved a sacred site from rock climbers

Ugurapal man Kruze Summers at Minto Crag, an ancient basalt rock formation near Croftby, Queensland. Photograph: Dan Peled/The Guardian

To the Ugarapul people south-west of Brisbane, the grass trees, or whinpullin, are protectors of mountains.

“To us, whinpullin are the silent sentinels,” Kruze Summers says. “They’re bodyguards of our mountains.”