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General Climbing Discussion

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New hard route at Araps 10-Nov-2012 At 5:06:24 PM Dave J
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On 10/11/2012 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>A change in ascent style does not afford renaming rights as far as I am
>aware.

I think there are plenty of cases where the route has been given a new name once its been freed. "Sheffield Steal" springs to mind (and its not even properly free!).

In much of europe the person who chips/glues and bolts a line gets to name it though the actual ascent may not come for years.

>I would suggest that Steve Monks being the traditionalist you quote him
>as being, resisted such nonsense as renaming a route because it was freed
>because he is a traditionalist!

He was probably just afraid of the *mods.
>
>The ideology that you propose would amount to a guide-book writers nightmare!
Not if the guide book writers just stuck to documenting free routes.

>☺

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