After absailing down the 100ft cliff the first thing you want to do is rush back up to the top as quickly as possible. You should however stop and take in the scenery. Once you do start climbing you need to be aware that if you try and go too fast you will very quickly become tired and risk not being able to finish the climb. The trick is you need to be conscious of every move because if you find yourself tipping out of balance, all your weight will be on one or two limbs causing them to fatigue very quickly. This is not good especially when only half way into the climb. With regards using the equipment you need to give your axes a good hard wack into the ice to make sure they go in, but not so hard that you break big chunks out of the cliff. Likewise when it comes to your crampons you just need to press your toes against the ice and ease your heels back and let gravity and your weight do the work. If you don't and you kick in you risk breaking up the ice you need to support your weight with and its not nice when this breaks away underfoot. At times when the climb gets difficult you need to adapt, break the rules. You may need to over reach and do things a bit different but on the whole the best thing to do is take it slow, keep in balance... don't panic and keep going... bit like life in general :-)
