Illustration Friday- Climbing

Have you heard of Illustration Friday? It is a creative outlet for anyone to post an illustration inspired by their weekly topic. This is my first time participating and this week's topic is "climbing". I want to really use the idea of the random topic and draw the first thing that comes to mind...I think that will make it truly a creative exercise, rather than just one more thing I am trying to accomplish.  If you are interested in seeing what other artists have drawn on the subject, click on the link. Participants can use any medium to illustrate and it is really interesting to see all the different ideas that one word can spark!

Oh... and my illustration is about a stone's difficult journey to the top of the rock pile. (I said that I was going to draw the first thing that I thought of!)