Coire Laggan   © Allan Donald

On Collie's Ledge: 29th April 2009   © Oliver Bartrum

View of the ridge below Sgurr Mhic Choinnich to the Sgurr Dearg & In. Pinn.   © Jim Westwood

View of 'Coire Lagan' from 'Collie's Ledge' below Sgurr Mhic Choinnich.   © Jim Westwood

Classic view of Sgurr Mhic Coinnich and Sgurr Alasdair from Sgurr Dearg on a splendid day (13th May 2009)   © Ian Nixon

Sgurr Mhic Choinnich from Coire Lagan. This picture gives lie to the assertion that these mountains are the "Black Cuillin", and as Gordon Stainsforth points out that they can adopt many different hues depending on light and weather conditions.   © Gareth Pratt

A close up of Sgurr Mhic Choinnich and Sgurr Alasdair from Glen Brittle, May 06.   © Craig Robinson

Sgurr Mhic Chonnich in the background, taken from Coire Lagan   © Steve Marlow

Sgurr Mhic Choinnich dominates the approach route up into Coire Lagan. The track passes below the 'Matterhorn Rock', the large erratic boulder in the middle of the photo.   © David S Brown

Looking across the loch in magnificent Coire Lagan. Sgurr Mhic Choinnich forms the massive headwall, with the bottom of the Great Stone Shoot (right) almost symmetrically balanced by the scree-run section of the An Stac screes to left.   © David S Brown

Bird's eye view of Sgurr Mhic Choinnich, taken from the summit of Sgurr Alasdair. Note the tiny red speck of a climber traversing Collie's Ledge.   © David S Brown

Zoomed-in shot of part of Collie's Ledge (more correctly called Harte's Ledge in the SMC guide 'Skye Scrambles' by Noel Williams), with a climber in red and blue to give scale. He made it look like a Sunday afternoon stroll! Taken from Sgurr Alasdair.   © David S Brown

Sgurr Mhic Choinnich, Collie's ledge and Northern part of ridge from Sgurr Alasdair.   © Nikolas Andersen

On the Cuillin Ridge. Sgurr Dearg left with the Inaccessable Pinnacle, to the right Surr na Banachdich then Sgurr a' Ghreadaidh (in the distance) and Sgurr Mhic Chonnich (right foreground).   © Glyn Randle

The ascent of Sgurr Mhic Choinnich form Sgurr Dearg.   © Bill Wales

Sgurr Mhic Choinnich (left) and Sgurr Alasdair (centre), with the great stone shoot below, viewed from Sgurr Dearg.   © Douglas Wilcox