Daredevil Disabled Cat Climbs up a Canyon Wall, and Now Theres Only One Thing for Her Humans to Do [Video]

In 1997, Jon Krakauer published Into Thin Air, an account of the author’s personal experience of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which he is anything but shy about the esoteric perils that come with scaling such titanic, apathetic natural wonders.

I’m going to go out on a limb and presume that Penny the disabled cat hasn’t kept up with Krakauer’s literature in her time, because judging by a recent TikTok from her owner @morleykert, Penny is all but determined to recklessly fraternize with the clouds, insofar as her cerebellar hypoplasia will allow her.

In the video, a perpetually disoriented but supremely undeterred Penny appears to have made it her mission to go mountain climbing by any means necessary, only halting her ascent upon running out of footholds, and subsequently returning to her owners for a well-earned spot of lunch.

For those of you not in the know, cerebellar hypoplasia is caused by an underdevelopment of the cerebellum …