luckyjim - AltLd - 10/Mar/13 with D Helm

easers - AltLd - 10/Mar/13 with Doug

Dougbart - AltLd - 10/Mar/13 with Iain

Went off route and missed the top section
Ben Sharp - Lead dnf - 28/Feb/13 with rick armitage

Fantastic, but long day out. Very icy conditions. Second ice pitch was a sustained 45m of steep ice,and felt much harder (IV,4) than the grade. Not helped by a lack of ice screws!. Then I think we traversed round much further to the right than we were supposed to before finding a way to the top. A proper mountaineering adventure!
JasonK - Lead - 23/Feb/13 with Alec Carr

Very steep Ice pitches for Grade III, good test of nerve on some bulletproof ice
jasoncash - AltLd O/S - 22/Feb/13 with Andy Cash

Solid Grade 4 bullet hard water ice.
markwarner - AltLd - Feb/13

Brucemacrosson - AltLd - Feb/13 with Ruth Love

MTBAnimal - AltLd O/S - 10/Jan/13

Great climb definitely a IV in the conditions. All steep pitches were mainly ice, very little neve. Dodgy ice at bottom, better higher up for climbing but no so good for protecting.
jandyd05 - 2nd O/S - 26/Feb/12

Hidden - Lead - 24/Feb/12

karinh - AltLd - 19/Feb/12 with Colin G

Hidden - 2nd - 15/Feb/12

One of the best routes I've ever done, even though I did nip around the start of the third icefall (it wasn't there...).
RedFox - Solo O/S - 14/Feb/12

Terrific route. Nice steep ice at start, but what I guess is the third "hard to get onto" ice pitch seemed to be nonexistent (vertical rock wall topped with icicles?) and previous footprints led up right and then traversed left to go "around the block".We had 6 ice screws and wish we'd had a couple more. Above the clouds in inversion conditions for last few pitches and summit.
timday - AltLd O/S - 12/Feb/12

Awesome. My first climb on the Ben. Best day on any mountain - yet! Good conditions little wind no precipitation. Topped out to see cloud inversion and sunset bueautiful. Fogbow at start showed the way up. We'll be back.
davidbird63 - 2nd O/S - 12/Feb/12 with David Adcock

luckyjim - AltLd - 09/Feb/12 with m mcdermott

Hidden - AltLd - Feb/12

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 29/Jan/12

started first two pitches off to the left gutter
bob johnson - 2nd O/S - 28/Jan/12 with Mike Pescod

Hidden - AltLd - 28/Jan/12

Piers Harley - AltLd - 16/Jan/12 with Jeremy Windsor, Paul Winder

konacol - AltLd - 15/Jan/12

Hannah Evans - AltLd - 14/Jan/12 with Tony Sheperd

dan doran - Jan/12 with konacol

Crowley6969 - 2nd O/S - 27/Mar/11

Led P1, short and not so steep. Mark led P2, started easy, but got very steep right at the top, certainly harder than a III. Ice not so great, dinner plating off. Accidentally avoided P3 as Mark belayed too far off to the right, but then traversed back left on steep snow to get back on route. Mark led P4 up through upper buttress to belay just before the chimney. I led P5 for 60m, but then started moving together for the final snow slopes onto the summit. Great route, lots of ice, and a good alternative to Glovers if it gets too busy.
Karlos - AltLd O/S - 12/Mar/11 with Mark B

Found myself half way up pitch 2 with 1 ice screw left and finding it hardgoing. Made a belay and Rich then led onto the snowslope and we did alt leads then to the top. 7 pitches. Great route.Hats off to the victorians who ascended most of this route in 1907 without any ice screws!!
chrissy - AltLd - 05/Mar/11 with Rich

First route on the Ben
rmowilson - 2nd - 11/Feb/11

Finished up Beam me up Scotty.
Col Kingshott - AltLd O/S - 22/Jan/11

firthy1234 - AltLd O/S - 22/Jan/11

Hidden - 2011

Also known as Goodeves in my SMC guidebook. An excellent route with 6 long pitches, all of excellent standard. We used 60m ropes and 2 of the pitches were at full rope length. Top end of the grade but well protected on the more difficult sections. Start of pitch 3 was the crux.
Conan - AltLd O/S - 17/Apr/10 with Philippa Reader, Loz

wildrover220 - 2nd - 16/Mar/10 with Laurence Gill, John Trudgill, Pete Trudgill

Hidden - 2nd - 28/Mar/09

davefount - AltLd O/S - 17/Mar/09 with Will Kelsall

Hidden - AltLd O/S - Mar/09

morsy - AltLd - 22/Feb/09 with peter duggan

Simon K - 2nd - 01/Feb/09 with Mike Pescod + PR

Ross McGibbon - 2009

very hard for the grade on the ice pitches
dthomson - 12/Apr/08 with Mark Bannan

crowberry gully - 07/Apr/08 with Ross McGibbon

Completed the first pitch but backed off the second due to being short of ice screws. Shame, was in superb condition.
markfairbank - Lead dnf - 23/Mar/08 with SteveyM

Excellent ice conditions, but second ice fall requires more screws for a direct route.
SteveMyatt - 2nd dnf - 23/Mar/08 with Mark Fairbank

tim newton - 2nd O/S - 23/Mar/08 with dave kenyon

Went off route after the second pitch and ended up on the slopes of Raeburn's Easy Route. Traversed back right onto Hale Bopp for one pitch then back onto The White Line to the summit. T'was a long long route...
My Gravity - 2nd O/S - 09/Mar/08 with Simon S

traversed in from cascade
CurlyStevo - AltLd - 2008

suess - AltLd - 31/Mar/07

Captain Solo - Solo - 25/Mar/07

Hidden - 1994

ste_d - AltLd O/S - 02/Apr/92 with mik

mikedelderfield - Lead O/S - 02/Apr/92 with Steven Delderfield

innes - 1990