In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC: A fantastic effort, no question. As an American, I'm a bit surprised at some of the debate over here, since the ascent is, to my eyes, the equivalent of British headpointing, except of course the climb itself is so much longer. This site has plenty of reports of "trad leads" of routes that where assiduously top-roped before they were led with gear, and this effort is fundamentally no different.
Of course, calling any of these trad ascents raises the newly contentious question of what trad is, with most people who grew up doing trad climbing feeling that trad is not synonymous with the use of removeable gear, and that one might even need a term like "gear climbing" to distinguish things like this ascent from "traditional trad."
As for chopping the bolts, with all due respect, that is preposterous. The bolts were an essential part of the ascent. They were needed for both the rehearsal of the moves and the locating and rehearsal of the gear placements, and this is part of why this can't really be viewed as a trad ascent, at least not in the traditional sense of the term. (I know, I've now coined the term "trad trad.")
None of this is meant to detract in any way from the feat itself as a fantastic headpointing accomplishment.