Life Lived Wild by Rick Ridgeway (Patagonia) 4 stars
Publication date UK 26/10/21 book 454 pages
I would like to thank the author, publishers and Netgalley for allowing me to pick this to read and review. all my reviews are honest.
Synopsis
A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wildAt 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).
My Review
This was an interesting reading. The author has obviously lived life to the max, including Mount Everest wow. He has also met some interesting celebrities too. There are certainly no dull moments in this book. It was so interesting. Then I found out the book was longer until the final draft as maybe a second book, which sounds like fun. If you want to learn more about living a life of high risk, then definitely give this book a go.
So much praise goes out to the author and publishers for bringing us this amazing adventure.
Where you can buy this book
Amazon US K $11.49, AUDIBLE, HC $20.49
Kobo £8.99 AUDIO £17.99
Amazon UK K £8.99, AUDIBLE, HC £19.39
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