Near miss by a spoon

Talk about hazards to life and limb! One moment you're climbing Ice Cream Mountain with your best buddy Pineapple Ring and then the next moment, out of nowhere, a spoon scoops up the very ice cream that you were standing on. Poor Mr. Maraschino is left hanging! Pineapple Ring looks horrified. Even the sign pointing to the summit looks threatened. Imagine what would happen if the summit sign were to tumble into the bottom of the banana-split dish? How would Mr. Maraschino make it to the top? But wait, there's only one direction to go on Ice Cream Mountain, up.