In reply to j mace:
In mountaineering there are no set rules and its up to the climbing community as a whole to decide what is acceptable or not. 'The Cartwright Connection' is not the first new route on the North Buttress of Mt Hunter which was not climbed to the summit. In the alps new routes are normally claimed if they join up with existing routes and then rappelled.
It often seems that people apply one set of rules for some and different rules for others! I got slated by some people for claiming the first complete ascent of the NW face of Mt Kennedy (The Artic Discipline Wall).
Most of the people who cast judgement are completely unimformed......do yourself a favour and get out climbing instead of talking about it.