Reduced to 19.95 SIGNED by Rick Ridgeway LIFE LIVED WILD AT EDGE OF THE MAP

Description: LIFE LIVED WILD: ADVENTURES AT THE EDGE OF THE MAP: NEW AND SIGNED! by Rick Ridgeway 2021 1st edition Hardcover SIGNED by Rick Ridgeway Shipped by Media Mail, Priority Mail Available, International Mail Available We may be the only bookshop offering Signed copies of Rick Ridgeway's new book Life Lived Wild. We have a finite number available, and mostly they will go to our regular website customers. The Publisher is Patagonia, in California, in late 2021, this is a true 1st edition. Approx 424 pages, with color photos. Brand New hardcover, bought by us direct from the publisher. This is a normal size book, 9 inches tall. The book has a pictorial cover so no dust jacket was issued. We had the publisher double box our copies so there was no chance of damage! Our copies are SIGNED by Rick Ridgeway. 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 mountaineering and exploration 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: he was one of the first Americans to make the ascent of K2; the was on the first direct coast-to-coast traverse of Borneo; the made the first crossing on foot of a 300-mile corner of Tibet so remote no outsider had ever seen it (with Galen Rowell.) He summited Everest in 1976 on the American Bicentennial Expedition, only the third American ascent. 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 are his fellow travelers. There’s Patagonia founder billionaire Yvon Chouinard, and Doug Tompkins, best known for cofounding The North Face and Esprit 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. An accomplished storyteller, this long-awaited memoir is the book end to Rick Ridgeway’s impressive list of publications, including: THE BOLDEST DREAM: THE STORY OF TWELVE WHO CLIMBED MOUNT EVEREST; THE LAST STEP: THE FIRST AMERICAN ASCENT OF K2; SEVEN SUMMITS with Dick Bass and Frank Wells; THE SHADOW OF KILIMANJARO: ON FOOT ACROSS EAST AFRICA; BELOW ANOTHER SKY: A MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE IN SEARCH OF A LOST FATHER; THE BIG OPEN: ON FOOT ACROSS TIBET'S CHANG TANG DESERT.LIFE LIVED WILD: ADVENTURES AT THE EDGE OF THE MAPWho is Chesslerbooks? We are Chessler Mountaineering Books. Since 1984 we have been the leading bookseller of Climbing Books in the USA, perhaps the world. We sell new, used and collectible and often signed narrative climbing books, guidebooks, rock climbing, ice climbing, skiing, Antarctica and the Arctic, Expeditions, 8000m Peaks, Seven Summits, climbing history, photo books, back issues of many climbing journals and climbing magazines, everything. We have books on Mount Everest, K2, Chomolungma, Rainier, Denali, McKinley, Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc, Eiger, Matterhorn, Yosemite, Shawangunks, Alps, Himalaya, Karakoram, Nepal, Tibet, Sierra Nevada. We have books signed or about Reinhold Messner, Edmund Hillary, Maurice Herzog, Annapurna, Heinrich Harrer, Anderl Heckmair, Chris Bonington, Glaciers, Skiing, Caving, Cycling, Kayaking, Jungles, Deserts, Rain Forests, and much more. We even sell vintage climbing gear such as wood handled ice axes, older carabiners and vintage pitons. Some of our pitons are signed in silver marker by climbers such as Fred Beckey, Conrad Anker and Tommy Caldwell (one of today's leading rock climbers and a frequent ropemate of Alex Honnold). Please note that our handling time can be as much as 5 days. We usually ship books on Tuesdays and Thursdays. After 38 years of catalog, brick & mortar, and now internet bookselling, the quality stays the same, but the speed slows down!

Price: 19.95 USD

Location: Evergreen, Colorado

End Time: 2024-11-13T11:37:12.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.49 USD