A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild At the
beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of
the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many
expeditions, he's spent over five years of his life sleeping in
tents: "And most of that in small tents pitched in the world's most
remote regions." It's not a boast so much as an explanation.
Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those
years taught him, he writes, "to distinguish matters of consequence
from matters of inconsequence." He leaves it to his readers,
though, to do the final sort of which is which. Some of his travels
made, and remain, news: the first American ascent of K2; the first
direct coast-to-coast traverse of Borneo; the first crossing on
foot of a 300-mile corner of Tibet so remote no outsider had ever
seen it. Big as these trips were, Rick keeps an eye out for the
quiet surprises, like the butterflies he encounters at 23,000 feet
on K2 or the furtive silhouettes of wild-eared pheasants in Tibet.
What really comes through best in Life Lived Wild, though, are his
fellow travelers. There's Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, and
Doug Tompkins, best known for cofounding The North Face but better
remembered for his conservation throughout South America. Some
companions don't make the return journey. Rick treats them all with
candor and straightforward tenderness. And through their
commitments to protecting the wild places they shared, he discovers
his own. A master storyteller, this long-awaited memoir is the book
end to Ridgeway's impressive list of publications, including Seven
Summits (Grand Central Publishing, 1988), The Shadow of Kilmanjaro
(Holt, 1999), and The Big Open (National Geographic, 2005).
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