As I understand it, tradition holds that when a climber completes a first ascent, he/she earns naming rights to the route. If this is correct, and short of being a guide book author, how does one go about officially naming the route so that it is relatively immortalized as such in the climbing community?
Robert E wrote:As I understand it, tradition holds that when a climber completes a first ascent, he/she earns naming rights to the route. If this is correct, and short of being a guide book author, how does one go about officially naming the route so that it is relatively immortalized as such in the climbing community?
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