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 hes spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents ampampquotAnd most of that in small tents pitched in the worlds most remote regions.ampampquot Its 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 ampampquotto distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.ampampquot 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 coasttocoast traverse of Borneo the first crossing on foot of a 300mile corner of Tibet so remote no outsider had ever seen it.