My First Big Wall

First big wall for me,
After an hour and a half's approach from Champex, we reached the beginning of the route, where we settle down to eat, replacing our walking shoes for our climbing shoes.
Then, with my teacher, we set off in the lead and began the first pitch, the most difficult of the route (5b) but easy enough for me to pick up my belay techniques quickly.
The first two pitches are the most impressive, as we're on a kind of slab that falls in spades (+100m of gas) a few meters further on.
I'm also getting into the habit of picking up quickdraws as I climb, and I'm surprising myself in terms of technique on certain passages, especially in the final sections.
We're now at the summit, with the head at 3000m, and ready to descend via a short abseil of some fifteen metres before starting the descent to the parking lot.
The experience was amazing (though painful: new walking shoes -> blisters and new climbing shoes -> very small) and motivates me to progress in climbing.