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Before a fractured wrist forced him to return to Great Britain, Brit Nick Bullock was busy in Chamonix establishing a new route on Mont Saxonnex with Neil Brodie and a new winter variation to the Cecchinel-Jager on Pointe Lachenal with Matt Helliker in early January 2008. On January 3, Neil Brodie called Bullock about a new ice line that he had been watching, waiting patiently for it to form. In spicy conditions on the 4th, the pair climbed Brodie’s Patience (WI6), which the new Batoux guidebook