Search Results for: "names"
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Indoor Climbing
Climbing’s Biggest Names Competing This Weekend in Boulder and Lead
Here’s who’s made it through the Boulder and Lead qualifiers in the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships
Aaron Pardy August 3, 2023 -
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These apps will give you Indigenous place names for where you’re climbing
Native Land, Whose Land? and Indigenous BC are all available for download
Gripped September 30, 2021 -
Profiles
These Banff Mountains Had Indigenous Names
Cascade Mountain, Tunnel Mountain, Sulpher Mountain and Mount Rundle are colonial names that replaced Indigenous ones
Brandon Pullan August 3, 2021 -
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Indigenous Mountain Names Should be Used, Not Colonial Ones
“I think that any name that was known to be used by Indigenous people in the past trumps a colonialist name” – Colin Haley
Brandon Pullan June 24, 2021 -
Profiles
We Need to Cancel More Colonial Mountain Names, Like Rundle
It was called Waskahigan Watchi before Europeans arrived and renamed it for some Methodist preacher who spent little time in the area
Brandon Pullan June 3, 2021 -
Profiles
Climb United: A Modern Rethinking of Route Names
Included is a draft of principles for publishing and creating route names
Gripped April 8, 2021 -
Profiles
Offensive route names and how language in climbing culture can be hurtful
The following was written by Squamish climber Michelle LeBlanc and first appeared in Gripped’s February/March 2021 issue
Gripped March 15, 2021 -
News
Offensive Rock Climb Names in Squamish Changed
Updates to the Squamish Select guidebook have been made including some new route names for old climbs
Brandon Pullan September 23, 2020 -
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Erased – Route Names and Climbing Culture
Bethany Lebewitz, Ashleigh Thompson, Melissa Utomo and Erynne Gilpin hosted an online community discussion regarding prejudice route names, mountain project and climbing culture
Noah Walker July 28, 2020 -
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Progress on Changing Names of Bow Valley Peaks
Lawyers and officials are working together to rename racist and offensive peak names in the Canadian Rockies
Gripped July 17, 2020