Toponymy of Climbing Space: Names Within the Polish Climbing Community

Abstract

Social groups create social space from geographic space in ways which are useful to their members. The nature of the social space can be approached through the names which are used to define it. A study of the names in the “climbing space” created by Polish climbers shows that they are used in ways which are meaningful only within the context of climbing and they serve to express group values and to promote group solidarity.