Rock took 3 hours. Ice took 4 as it was in very poor and icey condition
Ollie B - 21/Aug/12 with T.Livinstone

Boshed the rock in 3 hours! Ice was shit but managed fine
Tom Livingstone - Lead O/S - 21/Aug/12 with Ollie Burrows

Did the rock section really quick and were moving slowly on the ice so thought we would use the original finish. Bit of a mistake really ended up doing an a1 pitch, a one legged offwidth, scottish III/IV ice pitch and exciting mixed. When I got down was sick and are still feeling awful really lucky I managed to get the last lift down would have been bad to have spend the night up there.
Ewan Russell - AltLd O/S - 14/Aug/12 with james wilson

See below, last lift was a godsend @ 7.30pm
climb_this - AltLd O/S - 14/Aug/12 with Ewan Russell

guy757 - AltLd - 02/Aug/12

Great route! Started at 3pm, rained on at 7pm on the first day, meaning a bivi much sooner than we'd hoped for.
Ken Applegate - AltLd - 04/Jul/12 with Scott Kirkhope

luke321 - Jul/12 with Tom Jagger

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 30/Jun/12

Owain Llewelyn - AltLd - 26/Jun/12 with Ed

sacdenouilles - AltLd - 24/Jun/12 with J F Philippe

Climbed in two days. Cruxes seem to be understated on most accounts, found them harder than 'VS' and frequent. Getting around the Rognon took five pitches, not the expected three. Good route, although lacks line as the route wanders. The whole thing is also essentially a pile of choss. I'm surprised more people don't get hurt or killed by rockfall. So if it's on your tick list do it now because it's falling down!
Merlin - 2nd - 23/Jun/12 with Mark Patterson

Well, I thought it was great!
mark88 - Lead - 23/Jun/12 with Merlin Andrew

Hidden - 2012

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 02/Oct/11

Si - Oct/11

Hidden - AltLd dnf - 07/Sep/11

Drew M - AltLd - Sep/11 with Fred Lyon

Hidden - AltLd - 14/Aug/11

Went a few times gloriously off-route and bivvied on the best ledge we could find in the white-out, which obviously wasn't the usual place. Steep ice bit turned out to be so well travelled that a comparison to ladders would be in place.
reima - AltLd - 12/Aug/11 with Niamh

Great day, super fun. 2hours 25mins from the bergshrund to the midi plan ridge. (Sorry Greg) Perfect conditions at the moment.
Dave Searle - Solo - 10/Aug/11

Great day, super fun. 2hours 25mins from the bergshrund to the midi plan ridge. (Sorry Greg) Perfect conditions at the moment.
Dave Searle - Solo - 10/Aug/11

Bradders - AltLd - 10/Aug/11

Greg Boswell - Solo O/S - 02/Aug/11

Hidden - Aug/11

In a day from the hut. Did the entire rock in stickies, good ice on the left exit of the rognon. Stunning climb!
Alexandre Buisse - AltLd - 16/Jul/11 with Nick Valentine

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 16/Jul/11

13 hrs in all, bad snow conditions on the arete and upper section slowed us down and we were extra careful after the accident the previous week
RKernan - AltLd O/S - 12/Jul/11 with Conor Gilmour

twright180 - 11/Jul/11 with John McCune

Easy 2 day climb with Floris. Day 1, 5 hours in the afternoon to the bivy. Day 2: another 5 hours to the top. Took the left exit to finish the route, climb ever steepening ice with the final crux pitch of 80degree ice that then became rotten nevee as the angle eased.
I_hang_dog - AltLd O/S - 11/Jul/11

Lenny - AltLd dnf - 05/Jul/11 with Paul

Condition were ok, dry rock in the lower sections. snow was a bit sugary but top ice sections were good. moved together through low, easy sections, pitched some harder parts. possibly off route on some parts, some higher gullies probably around V mixed (in hindsight I think we were on the Eastman Variant). Started late (1730) on first day, forced bivvy on rock section. finished route at 1800 next day just in time to miss the last cable car down.
chris687 - AltLd O/S - 04/Jul/11 with Gareth Steel

Started late on the 3rd at about 1700. Ended up going too far L and a bit off route, necessitating a slightly uncomfortable bivi. Also managed to find a narrow couloir with some ice going at about Scottish 5. Avoided the rock rognon at the top via the ice on the R. About 200m of reasonable quality ice, though we had only 3 screws for protecton. Overall great route.
garethsteel - AltLd - 04/Jul/11 with chris687

Hidden - AltLd - Jul/11

Hidden - 2011

Hidden - 2011

9 hours, top class route.
liamo333 - 2011

Over two days, 12 hours climbing. Quite snowy on the upper rock pitches. Finished left.
Luke Brooks - AltLd - 22/Sep/10 with Francis

Hidden - AltLd - 13/Sep/10

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 13/Sep/10

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 06/Sep/10

Peter Holder - AltLd - 06/Sep/10 with lewis fraser

Took the right side up fairly hard ice. Completed in about 8.5 hours from the 3rd bin rather than the bivi option.
stevepotter - 05/Sep/10 with Matt

Quite snowy, poor delicate ice in the upper section. Right of rognon finish, excellent finishing gully to top out from!
John Carney - 01/Sep/10 with Rob Jarvis

Hidden - AltLd - 31/Aug/10

Moved together throughout, climbed left side of Rognon. 8.5hrs climbing
Matt Bennett - AltLd O/S - 22/Aug/10 with Lewis Grey

LewisGray - AltLd O/S - 22/Aug/10 with Matt Bennett

Bivied at the top of the rock section, fantastic place to be. The Ice arete was the sacriest bit,your only protection to falling off would be for your partner to hopefully jump off the other side!
Shaw Brown - AltLd - 19/Aug/10 with Loz

moved together over rock, pitched ice exiting left of original route
stuart34 - AltLd O/S - 04/Aug/10 with James Monypenny

Pete Graham - AltLd - Aug/10 with Howard Lawledge

tumbling wizard - Aug/10 with andrew marshall

Wicked route, did in two days with bivi
inuklm - AltLd - 13/Jul/10 with David Fernandes, Juha

Started at 3am in the afternoon and finished the rock section at 9.30pm. Bivied until 2am and finished the snow and ice in the dark taking advantage of the perfect conditions. The sun hit the route as I was halfway through leading the top pitch! Top out at 6.30am
BorisVBlade - AltLd O/S - 07/Jul/10 with Neil Dowse

Neil D - AltLd rpt - 07/Jul/10 with Boriz Korzh

With a bivi. Ace route
Bristoldave - Lead - 05/Jul/10 with CarolineH

A fabulous line, loved it first time I saw it, massively enjoyable (and for me challenging) route. Conditions were pretty wet with a storm stopping us early on the first day, then some slush puppy conditions in the ice sections. But a dream come true.
oldgrey - 02/Jul/10 with Virgil Scott

Kyuzo - Jul/10

centurion05 - Jul/10

CarolineH - 05/Jun/10 with Dave

basvdploeg - 2010

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 30/Jul/09

Hidden - AltLd β - 28/Jul/09

Hidden - AltLd - 28/Jul/09

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

Hidden - AltLd - 28/Jul/09

Ally Baba - AltLd - 28/Jul/09 with R. Mcmurry

Anders_HP_DK - Lead - 24/Jul/09

Phil Belcher - Lead O/S - 14/Jul/09 with Ben Cooling

Beautiful route! From bivi on the plan, thought we'd have to bivi on the ridge too, so we lugged big packs but hit the top at 3pm - much shorter than expected.
mathquirk - Lead - 02/Jul/09 with Petter Zachrisson

Hidden - Lead - Jul/09

Bruveris - AltLd - Jul/09

Got the first lift up to the Plan de L'Aiguille and sent the route in 1 day. Rock was in perfect condition and there was quite a lot of fixed gear. Ice was soft but not steep. Had to bivi in the top station as we missed the last train down.
benclimbing - AltLd O/S - Jul/09 with Phil Belcher

Superb - the rock climbing was generally easy providing the easiest path is found and we took the rognon via some strange combo of direct and on the right with some fairly steep ice involved. Done over 2 days with bivi, rope damaged in rock fall meant doing most of it with a 25m 1/2 rope. Memorable adventure!
markfairbank - AltLd O/S - 29/Jun/09 with SteveyM

Overnight. Went off route and tried to take the Rognon direct by mistake: a great piece of Scottish grade 4 ice climbing followed. Ended up escaping off to the right and taking the easy ramp to the top. . . .
SteveMyatt - AltLd O/S - 28/Jun/09 with Mark Fairbank

Climbed the whole route on crampons, quite a bit of slush-puppy snow. With the fohn wind we were sinking knee deep in the snow!! Entertaining!!
Niekolaas - AltLd O/S - 23/May/09 with Jelle

brockers - AltLd O/S - 2009 with CarlZ

robertporter - AltLd - 06/Aug/08

felixthelion - AltLd - 02/Aug/08 with T. Brookes

tommytuffa - AltLd O/S - 02/Aug/08 with Felix

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

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Aug/08

blouise - Aug/08 with James Gordon

Jules C - Aug/08

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 28/Jul/08

Plan 7.20 - on route 8.40 - start snow 20.50 - top out 23.15. Went badly off route once leading to lengthy delicate moving together. Crux 5+ pitch seemed pretty straightforward, HS 4b? Ice section straightforward as stepped out. Need to be faster!
Misha - AltLd - 25/Jul/08

9 hours. 1 hour approach. Climb carefull is people are below you. A guy from one party broke his helmet because of a small avalanche of stones caused by a party next to us.
laurent - Lead - 25/Jul/08 with Sarah

We kipped at the top of the rock. Nice route. Not too hard. The hardest rock is perhaps english 4b at a push. The ice we found fine. Didn't place any screws though we carried a few.
decs - 16/Jul/08 with Sam

sgl - AltLd - 16/Jul/08 with duncan

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

Hidden - Lead - 04/Jul/08

10.5 hours from the Aig du Plan. Excellent route.
HamishD - AltLd - Jul/08 with chris burn

Hidden - 2nd - Jul/08

jam_rich - Jul/08

Neil D - AltLd - Jul/08 with Robert Porter

Somerset swede basher - Lead O/S - 29/Jun/08 with Dan Wicks

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 29/Jun/08

Rob84 - Lead O/S - 21/Jun/08 with Jim D

nofx - 2008

rob askew - AltLd - 2008 with IanJackson

Hidden - Lead O/S - 2008

Hidden - 15/Sep/07

Hidden - AltLd - 09/Sep/07

Hidden - 09/Sep/07

Will_he_fall - 28/Aug/07 with Aly

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 15/Aug/07

Done in a day (8h50). Went left at the top.
tom.e - AltLd O/S - 04/Aug/07 with Luke Porter

Hidden - Solo - Aug/07

Hidden - AltLd - Aug/07

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 26/Jul/07

Stuart Johnston - AltLd O/S - 26/Jul/07 with g taylor

Nicos - Lead O/S - 22/Jul/07 with rich howels

Classic mixed route, with good rock sections, an airy snow arete and even some steep ice to finish. Felt long as was pretty snowy and slow going at the bottom, but then it is 1100m!
Chad123 - AltLd - 01/Jul/07 with Emily

Went Left (Scot IV). Lead ice and rock crux. Amazing day. We didnt use ice screws.
IanJackson - Lead O/S - Jul/07 with Robeverybody

dave657 - 14/Sep/06 with Mike

Hidden - AltLd - 07/Aug/06

Hidden - AltLd - Aug/06

Adam Booth - AltLd O/S - 24/Jul/06 with Roel, Ed Booth

Ed Booth - AltLd - 24/Jul/06 with Adam Booth

Hidden - Jul/06

reg_measures - AltLd O/S - Jul/06 with Ralph, Timmy

bring shit loads of screws if doing in late season. 3 was enough but sketchy. going left at the rognon gives a pitch of scottish 5 ice. easily avoided on the buttress at the top though. mind crevassess at top too especially at 3pm
david morse - AltLd - Jul/06 with chris todd

Hidden - Jul/06

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 30/Jun/06

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Jun/06

Hidden - AltLd - Jun/06

mike kann - AltLd - 2006 with Rich Draisey

Did it just after a dump of snow so most of the rock climbing was actually hard mixed climbing. Single push. Brilliant fun.
Neil Adams - Lead dog - 2006

zero six - AltLd O/S - 2006

feilx - Sep/05 with Ian Lovatt

All sorts of excitment.....
andyinglis - AltLd - Aug/05 with neil adams

dannyboy83 - AltLd O/S - Jul/05 with Welsh Dan

Dave Thompson - AltLd O/S - 2005 with Thomas Martin

Bivvied at the half way ledges.
220bpm - AltLd O/S - Aug/04 with Dave

Scotsken - Jun/04

Nearly wiped out by a house sized boulder on the glacier in the afternoon. Very impressive at the storm which was bout 200m below the start of the ice arete. Went left of the rognon at the top.
BenTiffin - AltLd dog - Aug/03 with Dan Robinson

Hidden - 2nd dnf - Aug/02

tjekel - 2001

Hidden - AltLd - Aug/99

innes - AltLd O/S - Aug/99 with Jim

Jim Walton - AltLd O/S - 08/Aug/98 with Ed Cartwright

stokesrees - AltLd - 1997 with Asmus Norveslet

Hidden - Lead O/S - 17/Aug/96

Very Cold ice very hard ...not an easy ascent
Tony Kartawick - AltLd - Aug/95 with Nick

frost - AltLd - Jul/94

alkira - 28/Jun/94 with kerry atkey

Hidden - AltLd - Jun/94

Fell off before I even got on the route whilst climbing soft snow to the foot of the rock section: thought I'd burst a kidney when I hit a rock! Sucked it up and followed my mate to the bivi when a huge storm arrived on the wrong side of the mountain - merci m. Meteo. Snow arete didn't solidify until well after dawn so couldn't do the rognon and went for steep ice on left as the best option. Good fun to lead. My mate got the slush up to the Midi-Plan ridge. Still a brilliant route.
Pete_Frost - AltLd - Jul/93

Hidden - Lead O/S - 28/Jul/92

Budge - AltLd O/S - 1992 with Brian Ottewell

Hidden - AltLd - Sep/90

Hidden - AltLd - 17/Aug/89

Hidden - Jul/89

Bivied just below the Rognan after taking too long helping a couple of Spnish climbers.
Guy - AltLd - Aug/88 with The old man

lots of spring snow on lower rocks. 2 bivvies with Simon & Pip
Grezza - AltLd - Jun/88 with JuJu

Hidden - AltLd - Aug/87

Hidden - Oct/83

John Marsland - Aug/83 with Winky and Andrew

Hidden - Lead - Aug/81

climbed over an afternoon & a morning with a bivy at the start of the snowy arête, as usual at the time we climbed the rognon rather than ice at the top
Doug - Aug/80 with Duncan Macallan

mark-abz - AltLd - Jul/80 with Brian W

Nigel Bond - AltLd - 25/Aug/78 with Stuart Millar

Paula Hamilton-Gibson - AltLd - Aug/76 with John Whittock

First route in Western Alps
Falko - AltLd O/S - 01/Aug/75 with Peter Brashaw

granitbahn - AltLd - Aug/71