In reply to Blue Straggler:
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> Would you care to elaborate on that, returning the courtesy that I granted to you?
Well its just that you must have had a suspicion that it was or you wouldn't have mentioned it, and I suspect it is.
There are all sorts of reasons why women have not been as forthcoming as men in new routing; history, demographic, the fact that until recently there were far fewer women than men climbing, the very fact that as in most sports the top males are usually better than the top females, though that of course does not preclude them from doing new routes!
In reply to Ian Hill thats bullshit, many of those routes are both significant and notable, The Dubliners was one of the hardest routes in the Poisoned Glen in Ireland way back in 1958. Nea was breaking down barriers, to be 'notable'it doesn't have to be the very hardest thing about.