On 2/02/2011 tnd wrote:
>The simple fact as I understand it is that the other Rod (Young) didn't
>want to publish a book with a bunch of racist epithets and chose to edit
>them. His book, his decision. Being an editor's great, you get to be an
>autocrat. That doesn't make the climbs any more difficult to find or alter
>their quality. It's the editor's decision what to include in his book.
Um yes and no. As a guidebook editor you're much more open to racial vilification charges than the people who named the routes, like it or not. This would be rather more painful than a Chockstone lynching...