The writing could be better, but I became interested to know what the man on the hill was looking out for. But alas, I don't have time to read the whole thing.
He needs to vary his sentence structure; I too could not get past the first paragraph or so. Guk. Also, the image of this guy getting distracted and walking face-first into a cliff would be pretty funny if it were written better. But I imagine it's not a comedy.