great focus Nick. Colours are drab though, so I think it might work much better in B&W

Thanks - are the colours drab though? Nice bright blue top, etc. I could upload a B&W version though to see if people prefer that.

Sorry nick, should have been clearer, the top is a nice colour ;). I do find shots of the grit on flat overcast days to look a bit, well, grim. Particularly the background in this case. If you want to keep it in colour you could use a after-the-fact warm-up filter in PS, which might help a lot.
Great pose and composition...

A great study.......in concentration.

I've now added an 81 warm-up filter to these 3 shots of Phil.

superb shot of a very well known problem - taking good pics of very common things is one of the hardest things...a slight shame the mat's there :o)

Good, shows the problem, climbers involvement in int and the setting

He has got a very big head.