Once upon a time there was a mountain-climbing potato and his name was Jackson. He grew up on a farm in Idaho and had soon climbed all the mountains around his farm. He stood on a peak, surveying the wild country around and said “I want to climb a higher mountain!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He journeyed to Alaska to climb Denali and scaled the peak, getting frostbite along the way and losing a leg (fortunately potatoes can regrow limbs). Looking out over the vast Alaskan wilderness and the moose and tundra, he said “I want to climb a higher mountain!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So he traveled to Tanzania to climb Mt Kilimanjaro. He reached the top and looked over the savannah and the lions and tigers and hyenas and hippos and said “I want to climb a higher mountain!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He decided to scale Aconcagua in South America, so he journeyed there and scaled the peak and surveyed the Atacama desert and the Pacific Ocean and the pampas in Argentina and said “I want to climb a higher mountain!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So he traveled to K2 on the China-Pakistan border. He climbed to the summit and looked out at the mosques in Pakistan and the Khyber Pass and the Gobi Desert in China and said “I want to climb a higher mountain!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jackson finally decided to try Mount Everest, and although he got another round of frostbite, he made it to the top. He looked out over the Dalai Lama’s palace in Tibet and the beautiful temples in Kathmandu in Nepal and said “I want to climb a higher mountain!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So he acquired a potato space suit and went to the Moon and found the higher spot, which doesn’t have an official name. He looked out over what Buzz Aldrin called “magnificent desolation” and saw the Earth rise over the horizon and said “I want to climb a higher mountain!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So Jackson traveled to Mars and scaled Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the Solar System. He looked out at all the space probes and the rusty rocks and pink sky and said “I want to climb a higher mountain!” So he went to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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