Well, he was on a quest, you see, to find three treasures that are very important to our kingdom, and which had gone missing long before. And he didn't know it at the time, but the beanstalk ended up taking him up into the Land of the Clouds, where a giant happened to be guarding one of the treasures--the magic chest of gold. So really, it was thanks to Ifnkovhgroghprm's help that he managed to recover the chest at all.