Gary
Johnson marches up another mountain
Richmond Times-Dispatch
By: A. Barton Hinkle
"When researchers announced the
discovery of a mountain taller than Everest on the asteroid Vesta, Gary Johnson
had already climbed it." So said "Gary Johnson Facts" on Twitter
a while back, after noting that "A duck's quack does not echo. Gary
Johnson is solely responsible for this phenomenon."
Like Chuck Norris, who inspired this
genre of humor, Gary Johnson is not viewed with gravity by a great many people
these days. This is too bad, because — unlike Norris — he should be.
The Everest gag refers to a "true
fact," as such things are called: Johnson once climbed to the summit of
Mount Everest — and he did so with frostbitten toes and a leg that had not
fully healed from an earlier break. He hopes to reach the highest peak on every
continent. If past is prologue, he probably will: He already has scaled Mount
Elbrus, Mount McKinley and Mount Kilimanjaro. He also has competed in the
Ironman triathlon five times, has run 100 miles in 30 consecutive hours — in the
Rockies — and has nearly killed himself paragliding.
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