The mountains were a disastrous and unpredictable place, the weather was wild, the animals were wild and there wasn't anyone up there to help you if you got hurt. A perfect place for an old unicorn to go and satisfy his ego. Nopony believed that he would be able to survive more than a month, let alone ten years. However, Brown hermit's solitude took a tole on him, he was lonely, he was half starved, and he was beyond happy.

No pony had attempted to go into the mountains unless they were doing it for sport or if they half-mad. Brown hermit had been officially proclaimed dead and all searches for the Stallion had stopped. The Crystal Empire had been Brown Hermit's previous home and his family had accepted his death as everyone else did in a family of Hermits, they shrugged.

Brown Hermit's life hasn't ended though, he may think he has accomplished everything, but he hasn't met a certain Pegasus.