Nice results! I've been rendering Mountains shadows in 3DSMax for my maps and I've found they tend to look 'soft' if I don't put the heightmap into the Bump channel (set to 200+, with 0.5 blur or less) as well as in the displacement modifier.

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Also I've found the height maps to be more realistic if I adjust the curves to darken the mid tones of the height map.