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Pioneers of Tassie's Best Climbs 23-Sep-2016 At 11:03:47 AM BA

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On 23/09/2016 Tastrad wrote:

> Lyle Closs once wrote in Screamer magazine 1984, that climb names are a memorial
>to men's dreams.

Ahh, yes. A very good article indeed. I reprinted it in the North Grampians guide back in the early 1990s. The article finishes: "And just as the printing of the names of the first to climb the route is a memorial to other mens dreams, so to climb that climb is to lie in another man's grave. The grave may be the same. But it was not dug for you."

So it is in fact a reference to the first ascensionists and not the name of the climbs and it also suggests that females didn't do first ascents back then.

Lyle wrote some good stuff, it's worth chasing up and reading the whole article.