Given the topic of offensive route names, this article contains some unsettling language. Examples are a necessary tool to illustrate the severity of this egregious issue.
Lifeâs A Bitch And Then You Marry One, One Less White N , Rape and Carnage, Slant Eyes, Violently Silence Me, Slave Girl and Sluts Have No Honour were all real names given to climbing routes across the world.
Recently, thereâs been a movement in the climbing community to change offensive route names.Â
The issue was raised after the Black Lives Matter movement and other efforts put the mediaâs focus on progressiveness and inclusivity, with many long overdue changes happening as a result.Â