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Mount Everest: the hardest climb on planet Earth. It's a veritable peak that has pushed the most experienced mountain-climbers to their limit, and even taken their lives.
Rainbow Dash is sure she could conquer it, but Mount Fuji will have to do.
Written for Nitro Indigo's Tourism Writing Challenge.
âHad me grinning the entire way through.â
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I didn't think I would ever write a story about Japan, let alone ponies going to Japan, but here we are.
Before anything else: This story was based on a real, personal, climb. Notes were made from photographs taken and from experiences by the climber, and other sources were used. I wanted to be as authentic as I possibly could while stretching my admittedly weak imagery skills. In any case, I hope that I did Mount Fuji justice here.
And for the record: this story is based on Fuji as it was in 2007. If you've climbed it more recently than that, I'm sorry if things aren't up to snuff!
I'm really not sure how a walking stick helps a quadruped - unless their dedication to climbing the human way extends to walking bipedally?
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Three-legged restriction, and I meant it in a more "wait, this is actually useful [for people to use]?" kind of way. So yes, dedicated to climbing the human way, but not bipedally.
These lines confuse me. They couldnât help themselves to do what? Was there supposed to be a horizontal line before the next paragraph?
Besides that, this was a nice, relaxing read. It reminded me of Admiral Biscuit.
(Also, I think the reason why you couldnât add this to the group was because I set it so no-one can add stories to the Ponies on Earth parent folder in Passports and Portals, only the subfolders.)
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Intent here was to show them stopping to 'smell the roses' in a way, but that it was just too tempting to finish the climb. Best way I could see myself showing it after a lot of time thinking about that section.
And yes, Biscuit has become quite an influence for my writings as of late.
Thanks for reading!
Nice work!
Had me grinning the entire way through, nice bit of light-hearted fun. Stellar work on the imagery too.
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You do indicate that they are rather helpful at one point:
Rainbow made sure to express her thanks for Fluttershyâs idea to purchase their Fuji sticks; while they were still quite unwieldy, the meter-long sticks proved to be essential in pushing off of the rocky surface.
Which I have trouble seeing: they're quadrupeds, and taking one leg out of action and and substituting a stick just doesn't strike me as likely to be an improvement. Traditionally they have used donkeys for people to ride up and down the Grand Canyon trails because donkeys are just more stable than people on slopes (at least until the slopes get steep enough for hands to come into play).
(But then again MLP Ponies seem to walk on three legs rather easily a lot of the time, so maybe I'm just not accounting for Pony magic.
)
Please don't take this as a serous criticism of your story, BTW: it's a sweet little tale, it's just that the walking sticks were a bit of a "huh?" moment for me.
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If I'm being completely honest here, I just really wanted the walking sticks to make an appearance in the story. Which is actually pretty laughable since I neglected to actually write in a proper reason for the ponies to get them (a passing implication of them being souvenirs is clearly not enough).
From the moment I decided to have them use Fuji sticks, I knew that I was going to have to rely on suspension of disbelief: I was never shooting for a realistic depiction of the ponies, merely an accurate environment for the ponies. But I'm sure if ponies were to actually visit Fuji, they'd go with the shorter sticks instead, because you're right; the full-size sticks probably wouldn't be an improvement. In hindsight, I should have just had it be that way from the start. But that's not as fun as envisioning ponies surprising people at the stamp station, Fuji sticks at the ready.
Thank you for the comments, and I'm glad you got something pleasant out of my little story!
I enjoyed this story. I've never been to Mount Fuji before but this reads like a tourism ad for it. Which is a good thing.