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I really like the b&w image. My only suggestions are to increase contrast slightly and crop out the sliver of sky in the URH corner.
I agree, except I'd clone in more mountain and make the sky 'disappear'. I think if you crop the image from the top to remove the sky you'd get the top step too close to the top of the image. Ditto from the right - you'd be cutting into the top step.
My $0.02
Mike.