In reply to afreeding:
For pure fun and not instruction
If you can find a copy of a 'Century of Scottish Mountaineering' ( Scottish Mountaineering Trust) read 'Thirty hours on Ben Nevis' by Charles Inglis Clark.
Not ice climbing as we know it but gives the atmosphere of Scottish climbing brilliantly, less has changed since 1908 than one might think. People had epics in the same way for the same reasons, and in the same places, its about a very long and wandering ascent of Tower Ridge.
For information I'd look at Ian Parnell's book the title of which I forget!