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Actual mountaineering is also a no for me but this still fell firmly in the rock climbing category :)
We took the lift up to the glacier lake skipping a 3h walk, from there a 30 minute hike up to the base, and six pitches of regular rock climbing on sparsely bolted 5b to the ridge. The ridge was a little sketch as we had to improvise having no experience with running belays or actual mountaineering technique. Basically I let Saskia lead the traverse/downclimb on 'top rope'(-ish) and then I followed scrambling somewhat solo. The six pitches took us 2h, then 1 hour for the traverse and another hour or so at the Fiamma, leading it, hanging in a top rope and letting four other people use the top rope. From the top it was an easy scramble/hike down with one 15m abseil.
I'll have to learn some ridge climbing techniques for the next one!
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Stonking achievement, well done. It’s weird, I’m down for cliffs no questions asked, but peaks, ridges and actual mountaineering scares the piss out of me.