Hidden - AltLd - 17/Aug/12

Hidden - AltLd - 17/Aug/12

Hidden - AltLd - 17/Aug/12

Hidden - 2nd - Aug/12

Led every pitch .The crux is badly polished but handily full of tat. Learned about overtaking policys. Whoever climbs the fastest....Wins!
mickd - Lead - Aug/12

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Aug/12

Hidden - Lead O/S - Aug/12

Ollie B - 26/Jul/12 with T.Livinstone

Tom Livingstone - Lead O/S - 26/Jul/12 with Ollie Burrows

Hidden - AltLd - 19/Jul/12

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 23/Jun/12

Hidden - AltLd - 23/Jun/12

Hidden - 2nd - 22/Jun/12

Hidden - 09/Jun/12

Laramadness - 2012

Then followed normal route to the summit...
Adam Booth - AltLd O/S - 02/Sep/11 with Steve Seale

gowla - AltLd - 01/Sep/11 with adam booth

Great climb lots of people
gingernick - AltLd - Sep/11 with Dan the Man

Jack Doyle - 21/Aug/11 with Derek

Jack Doyle - 21/Aug/11 with Derek

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 17/Aug/11

The Mountain Goat - 2nd - 15/Aug/11 with Dom Sellers

Somerset swede basher - Lead O/S - 14/Aug/11 with Jon Miles

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 13/Aug/11

r_findlay - AltLd - 04/Aug/11 with stu_buchan43

started at the right of the foot up bolted route, which is not the start and a bit harder. very nice climb especially the flakes at the top. Ab out but don't pack the ropes as there's a walk then another ab. We learnt the hard way! Camped at the lac as missed the last cable car.
darren hudson - AltLd O/S - 02/Aug/11 with David Ford

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Aug/11

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Aug/11

mark schramm - AltLd O/S - 12/Jul/11 with tom m

Adi Hooper - AltLd - 12/Jul/11 with Roger Ward

tommoulds - AltLd - 12/Jul/11 with Schramm

Julli - AltLd O/S - 11/Jul/11 with Noora S.

Variation of letterbox
Bradders - AltLd O/S - 11/Jul/11

RKernan - AltLd O/S - 07/Jul/11 with Conor Gilmour

d_meacher - Lead - Jul/11 with Gill Byrne

theo.mooney - Jul/11

JRSB1991 - Jul/11

chrissloan84 - Lead - 2011 with paul

Hidden - 2nd - 29/Aug/10

Hidden - Lead - 13/Aug/10

Hidden - Lead - Aug/10

tumbling wizard - Aug/10 with andrew marshall

johnmctighe - 2nd - 16/Jul/10 with Stephan

Hidden - Lead - 09/Jul/10

Neil D - AltLd O/S - 02/Jul/10 with Boriz Korzh

Nice route. At the end of the route, we carried on to the top of Aid du Paigne along the North Ridge, however had to turn back about 50m below the summit as bad weather was coming in.
BorisVBlade - AltLd - 02/Jul/10

robinsi197 - AltLd - Jul/10 with Nick

Hidden - Jun/10

Hidden - 2010

alancash100 - AltLd - 2010

Hidden - 2nd - 26/Aug/09

inuklm - 23/Aug/09 with Dave Gent

Henrik - AltLd O/S - 17/Aug/09 with Josef

Great little climb. started late and ended up spending the night on the ledges under the Ticket.
david0811 - AltLd O/S - 13/Aug/09 with Mark Reid

davidgent - 10/Aug/09 with Kunal

Kyuzo - Aug/09

I found it tricky, but several French grannies in wheelchairs seemed to skate up it...
oldgrey - Aug/09 with Virgil Scott

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Aug/09

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Aug/09

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 28/Jul/09

Phil Jennings - AltLd O/S - 28/Jul/09 with Tom Nichols

Very enjoyable climbing on a lovely sunny day. Made it easy to put up with waiting at the belays while the over-equipped (peg hammers!) team in front of us dogged their way up. Too easy unfortunately - got to the top of the traditional descent and realised we wouldn't make the last 'phrique down from Plan de l'Aiguille. This was after having shaken our heads at the teams taking the easy (and quick) way out down the bolted routes on the Peigne slabs. Traditional descent turned out to be a chossy couloir followed by an unexpected snow slope. Not easy to negotiate in our trainers. Hadn't bothered with crampons or axes. Under-equipped maybe? Hmmm. Time for a rather uncomfortable "seated glissade." Two very foot and arse sore alpinists finally made it back to car around 10 pm.
Andy Clarke - AltLd O/S - 26/Jul/09 with Rob

Moved together - Eero led the way as a)he was much better than us and b)he'd done it before
Bart Shaw - 25/Jul/09 with Tim and Eero

Moved together for most part. Seconded a couple of pitches ...
bullwinkle - 2nd O/S - 25/Jul/09 with Eero & Bart

Letterbox pitch with a rucksack was an "interesting experience". Felt a lot harder than HS. Given V in the Alpine Club guide.
Caspar - 2nd - 16/Jul/09 with Neil + James

Pat-H - 2nd - 14/Jul/09

Glyn - 04/Jul/09 with David Fountain and Jonny

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 04/Jul/09

Rained on descent
davefount - AltLd - Jul/09 with Glyn and Jonny

+ James Waldron
Neil D - AltLd rpt - Jul/09 with Caspian James

planned on going to the summit but cold beers won the day.
Tobias at Home - 13/Jun/09

Missed the last 'pherique again!
mathquirk - Lead - 25/May/09 with Babu Blatt

brockers - AltLd O/S - 2009 with CarlZ

Mathijs - 2009

Started off at the next buttress and did a few pitches of more interesting climbing first before meeting the route. Learned some lessons on overtaking here. A bit too crowded for my tastes.
reima - AltLd - 2009 with Nora, Niamh

Hurray for Blizzard Bags!
andysroom - Lead dnf - 2009

StuDoig - AltLd - 11/Sep/08 with Olly Thomas

featuresforfeet - AltLd O/S - 31/Aug/08 with Tobias at Home

Approached from the half-way Aiguille de Midi cable car station (Plan de l'Aiguille, 2317m). Scrambled/soloed to left of 1st pitch, to overtake a larger team on the route. Great climbing throughout, with a wide range of different styles - chimney, face climbing, slabs, hand cracks, corners, etc. Abseiled leftwards down slabs from top of 12th pitch. Tricky route-finding through scree & boulders from the end of the last abseil to get back down to the trail.
Nick Smith - UKC - 2nd O/S - 10/Aug/08 with Andy Owen & Neil

Matthallinan - AltLd - 03/Aug/08

MoWalker3 - AltLd - 01/Aug/08 with Quiet Ian

JonHarvey - AltLd O/S - Aug/08 with Jay Jackson

Hidden - AltLd - Aug/08

Mark Walter - AltLd O/S - Aug/08 with Steve Becwith

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Aug/08

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 25/Jul/08

The Bad Cough - AltLd O/S - Jul/08 with Lee Bonner

dan gibson - Lead rpt - 27/Aug/07 with sam read

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 11/Aug/07

Hidden - AltLd - 11/Aug/07

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 06/Aug/07

Hidden - Lead - Aug/07

tom.e - 31/Jul/07 with Tom Powell

Hidden - Lead - 29/Jul/07

From Chaminix made good time. V
Paul-Michael - AltLd O/S - 17/Jul/07 with Paul Nurse

Hidden - AltLd - 16/Jul/07

Mr Powly - Jul/07 with Tom Everett

Hidden - AltLd rpt - 29/Jun/07

Hidden - AltLd - 23/Jun/07

matthias13 - AltLd - 23/Jun/07 with JamesA

Bristoldave - AltLd - 2007 with douglas

Thin 5+ move halfway up can be frigged as necessary using guides' tat; letterbox pitch a solid UK VS. Superb.
Peter Metcalfe - AltLd - 09/Sep/06 with Mike Weighleigh

Nicos - Lead O/S - 09/Sep/06 with rich howels

Hidden - AltLd - 05/Sep/06

Brian Birtle - AltLd O/S - 03/Sep/06 with Jon

dave657 - Sep/06 with mel_1

Hidden - AltLd - 31/Aug/06

Ross Barnes - AltLd - 29/Jul/06 with Andy I

Kyuzo - AltLd - Jul/06

mattyork2 - AltLd O/S - Jul/06 with Josh Bakker-Dyos

andyinglis - AltLd O/S - 29/Jun/06 with ross barnes

Ross Barnes - AltLd - 26/Jun/06 with Andy I

Stuart Johnston - Lead O/S - 22/Jun/06 with g taylor

Hidden - Lead O/S - 17/Jun/06

hal - AltLd - Jun/06

Smelly Fox - AltLd O/S - 13/Aug/05 with Sion Brocklehurst

chrissloan84 - AltLd O/S - Jul/05 with Sim

feilx - Jul/05 with Dan (welsh)

dannyboy83 - AltLd O/S - Jul/05 with Will Barbour

Hidden - Jul/05

A nice outting, especially the crux "letterbox" pitch. Actually, the first pitch ended with a tight chimney that was also good fun. The descent sucked as it started to rain and Philipe almost died as what we were using for a rap anchor came tumbling down on top of him! Somehow he escaped with only major bruises and we down-climbed the rest of the wet, slippery slopes having missed the last car down, continued on down to the valley.
Yyonnx - AltLd - 20/Jun/05 with Tom Fralich

Hidden - 20/Jun/05

Hidden - Lead rpt - Jul/04

Pitched. Backed off at the midway couloir
SteveM - AltLd - 04/Jun/04 with Tobs

Stone Muppet - 2004

tom.e - 2nd O/S - Aug/03

220bpm - AltLd O/S - Aug/03 with Dave

Backed off down a grotty couloir but made it to the last lift with time to spare!
SteveM - AltLd dnf - 04/Jun/03 with Tobs

Hidden - 2nd - Sep/02

Mark Salter - AltLd - 18/Aug/02 with Chris Shorrock

TobyA - AltLd O/S - Aug/01 with Stuart Adams

dan gibson - Lead O/S - Aug/01 with helen gibson

ian bryant - Lead dnf - 14/Jun/01 with walter

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Jul/99

bladderedagain - AltLd - Jul/99

DerwentDiluted - AltLd - Aug/98 with Tim Stain

daveyb - AltLd - 20/Sep/97

Guy - Aug/97

Hidden - AltLd - Jul/97

Done with a guide in the 1990's
francois - 2nd - 1995

tjekel - 1995

craig h - AltLd - Aug/94 with Jim Mellor

Mike - AltLd - 31/May/94 with Austin Harley

alkira - 07/Aug/93 with bruce goodlad

Hidden - AltLd - 03/Aug/93

Hidden - Solo - Jul/93

Hidden - Lead - 26/Aug/91

Brian Rodgers - AltLd O/S - Jul/91 with Sam Martin

Loads of fun. One pitch overhung but the holds were like a stack of dinner plates - perfect.
Pete_Frost - AltLd - Jul/91

Budge - AltLd O/S - 1991 with Richard Teed

Hidden - Lead - Sep/90

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Sep/90

Got overtaken by a guide and his party, they clipped our gear on the route and used our belays... I wasn't entirely happy with the situation, but have since learned that British manners have a place only in Britain and posh American Restaurants. In the Alps, no one waits for anyone: deal with it! Great Day out though!
BigHairyIan - AltLd O/S - 06/Aug/88 with Guy Summers

Alps - not my cup of tea at all!
steve taylor - Aug/88 with Dave Gilkes

auld al - 2nd O/S - Aug/88

michael burrows - AltLd O/S - 25/Jul/88 with steve williams

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 20/Jul/88

Hidden - AltLd - Jul/88

1 hour
John Marsland - Aug/87 with Dave Soles

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 02/Aug/86

Guy - Aug/86

Hidden - AltLd - 22/Jul/86

with Colin Lennox
ill_bill - 11/Jul/86

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Jul/86

In big boots - duh! Should have been in rock shoes. Walked all way back down to Chamonix after minor row with John.
eroica64 - AltLd - 11/Sep/85 with John Graeme

Used two 8 foot slings for pro.
John Marsland - Solo - 12/Aug/85

Hidden - Aug/85

John Marsland - 1982 with Andy Veveris and Chris Broad

mark-abz - AltLd - Aug/80 with ?

Richard Weller - Aug/80 with Richard White

Hidden - AltLd - 1980

beaumap - Lead - Jul/79 with Stan Tanner

leland stamper - AltLd - 1979 with Hugh Grandfield

Hidden - AltLd - Aug/78

Hidden - AltLd - 16/Jul/78

Hidden - AltLd - 16/Jul/78

Bolt Phobia - Lead rpt - 04/Aug/75

Steve Woollard - Lead - 15/Aug/74 with Andrew Huch, Malcolm Parker

Bolt Phobia - 2nd - Jul/74 with Steve Woollard