In reply to RKernan:By the time we arrived, late start, lots of people on routes and waiting for hadrians,point five,sickle, left egde, observatort buttress, smiths etc. We went for plan D of tower scoop which was free from traffic, probably due to the slope above !(should have went for indicator wall maybe)
I have a picture of you on route to the epic with the monster cornice ! we done tower scoop then an awful traverse onto tower ridge with spooky snow and we noticed you hadn't moved for a while and trying to traverse. Team behind us on tower ridge, up which we finished, were rescued next morning after what must have been a horror show of a night out in them conditions.
Never been that spooked by dodgy snow before.