Talk:Discord/@comment-1031724-20190830232257/@comment-29981995-20190901225207

Who says he was in the statue garden that whole time?

In all seriousness, it could be magic, it could be the kind of stone he was turned into. It could be that the statues were protected in some way unlike the unattended land that became the gorge, possibly by the fact that Canterlot sits on a mountainside.