Below Another Sky
A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father
By Rick Ridgeway

Editorial Review:
"This trip is in many ways a pilgrimage - a perspective that underscores the humbling vastness and power of the landscape….a thoughtful and affecting memoir." - The Washington Post Book World

"A famous climber and his young charge return to a mountain in china not to conquer its peak, but to find a dead father and friend, and in so doing, embrace death and the art of living in this wrenching, open-hearted memoir." - San Francisco Chronicle

"A soaring account of thirty years in the teeth of action and a ten-week pilgrimage to reunite the present with the past. In these pages you'll come close, at last, to the answer to that age-old question: Why climb?" - John Balzar, author of Yukon Alone

Book Description:
A renowned adventurer travels to Tibet with a young woman in search of her father's memory and gains a fresh perspective on his life. Combining gripping adventure writing with intimate memoir, Rick Ridgeway takes readers to the mysterious mountain domain of Tibet, and into the remote corners of his past.

Twenty years ago, in the wake of a massive and terrifying avalanche, Ridgeway cradled his dying friend Jonathan in his arms and pledged to keep watch over Jonathan's infant daughter, Asia. Now Asia is a vibrant, headstrong young woman; hoping to help her connect with the father she never knew, Ridgeway takes her to the Himalayas Jonathan so cherished. Together, they search for the place where he died.

Their trek through remote and forbidding terrain under constant threat from lethal storms and jumpy Chinese military patrols is a fitting backdrop for the precarious emotional journey that Ridgeway and Asia share, as they venture into alien landscapes of memory and self-discovery. Ultimately, the truths they both seek are revealed, not in images of life long gone but in the bright promise of future possibility. In a stunning conclusion on a treacherous and wind-battered mountain face, both Ridgeway and his dead friend's daughter finally embrace the deepest realities of death, and life.