Sorry to be late on this, but I wanted to respond. For many years I had a Pentax SLR that I used almost never and relied on a point and shot because I felt it was a better match for what I was doing.
Here is a sequence of pictures that my climbing partner took in 2007 with my Canon SA 600 pocketable camera. At the particular time it was my turn to lead so my partner got the camera and I got the rack.
We had enough climbing gear with us that we would never have considered bringing a slr or dslr. We wanted something that would fit in a top pocket and be handled with one hand while belaying with the other.
This kind of shows the climbing junk that we had with us that day. I had just finished belaying my partner up to the top.
When I listed my equipment, my Canon S100 is listed first. It would certainly take better quality pictures than these. Just as a little test I printed an 8 by 10 of one of the pictures that I listed here. It looks good to me.