In reply to Richard White:
If I top-roped every pitch up the Nose but free-climbed them all, even with falls, then I will have free-climbed the Nose (I suspect there's more chance of winning the lottery jackpot
, even if the style was poor. Obviously, leading every pitch would be a much bigger achievement.
By this criteria it would appear that Jorg is the 5th; Lynn Hill twice, once alt lead, once lead all, Scott Burke, led all except great roof, Tommy Caldwell twice, once alt lead, once lead all, and Beth Rodden, once alt lead.
SImilarly Salathe was free climbed by Skinner AND Piana, but was not free climbed by either Skinner (singular) or Piana (singular) as they jugged some pitches when not leading.
Of course this is all just playing with semantics and the main thing for us as observers of these feats is that the style of ascent is accurately recorded; all of them are significant achievements that we rightly applaud.
Post edited at 12:36