In reply to Northern Mountain Monkey:
I wasn't going to reply here but seem as news of Steve and Tim's fine repeat is getting world wide exposure then Ive posted this on the Alpinist.com website
"Rewriting history
Wasn't going to comment when this story was first reported on British web sites. But considering that this now getting "cut and pasted" straight into Alpinist.com then its worth putting the record straight.
Tim and Steve's fine repeat was surely the fourth. Olly and I on the first ascent didn't "traverse off". It was dissapointing of Tim to suggest that as he knows it's not actually possible to traverse off - you're in the middle of a hard steep wall with no ledges. We climbed an alternative straight up final pitch, parallel to the summer rock line. It went at VII 7 for that pitch very much in keeping with the standard of the rest of the route.
Andy and Duncan made the second ascent, being the first to climb that final pitch of the summer line. Having repeated most of that pitch on Curly's wall its about the same standard as our finish, but is a more direct line and makes a better route.
A route often evolves following repeats and refinements of the line, as has happened with Sioux Wall but theres no need to write early pioneers out of the history as Tim seems to be trying to do.
For readers wondering if this sounds like alot of fuss about a variation on some tiny mountain on the other side of the world. It is! but we are talking about the Ben here which beats most mountains eight times its size any day."