View that offers little cheer to the prospector (5,7)

'cheer to the prospector' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'view that offers little' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'view' could be 'outlook' (I've seen this before) and 'outlook' is located in the answer.
'little' could be 'l' (abbreviation for little) and 'l' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'beak' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?