From the summit a drop of only 25m brings you to the top of the Great Stone Chute and from there we dropped down slightly further before taking a somewhat difficult line to scramble back onto the ridge and the summit of Sgurr Thearlaich a mere 20 minutes later. Tricky route finding follows with the key apparently being to drop off to the right sooner rather than later in order to reach Bealach Mhic Choinnich where we had a 'second' half hour lunch break (or was it afternoon tea?). At 4:00pm we headed towards the bottom of Kings Chimney with the full intention of climbing it, something we had done on both previous attempts of the traverse. For whatever reason, this time it appeared more difficult and, after over half an hour of trying, with protection repeatedly falling out, we retreated and headed down to the alternative route along Collies Ledge. In places this is quite exposed and we mused that had this been the Dolomites there would have been a via ferrata cable to clip on to. Despite this it was shorter and easier than I expected and within about 10 minutes we were at the northern foot of Sgurr Mhic Choinnich. We dumped our rucksacks and scrambled up to the summit reaching it at 5:38pm. We were aware that time was pressing and we quickly descended, picked up our rucksacks and headed towards An Stac. We scrambled up to the summit without encountering any real difficulties although whether we took the same route as on previous occasions we couldn't be sure. From the summit we could see people on the Inaccessible Pinnacle and on the ridge leading up to Sgurr Dearg. It was now 18:50pm and we wondered why so many people would be there this late in the day despite it being a glorious evening. We hoped they were not all intending to spend the night in Coire na Banachdich and occupy all the prime sites! Ten minutes later we had skirted the Inn Pin (we hadn't intended climbing it unless we felt like and, feeling very weary and with people on it, the decision was not a difficult one). The people we had seen, including those on the inn Pinn, were in fact a TV crew making a documentary. We asked if they were spending the night up there to which they replied 'no' but we forgot to ask what the documentary was about or, for which company it was being made.