And on the other side were all my sister's My Little Ponies ready for a cavalry charge.

Scott had sort of ponies and some tractors and a few dogs, all of which went wrong, and Scott and his team of four people ended up on foot.

Babies, after all, can't talk, and if you ask a three year old to tell you what he thinks, what you'll get is a beautiful stream of consciousness monologue about ponies and birthdays and things like that.

The towering Karakoram Pass was part of the old silk route that connected Ladakh and Kashmir with Xinjiang now, like Tibet, an autonomous region of China. As two observers recently described it, Daulat Beg Oldie was a kind of transfer point for goods to be loaded on to pack ponies for the cruel journey over the Saser La into the more hospitable Shyok river valley leading to Leh, Turtok, or Srinagar in Kashmir .