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Outdoor sports adventurers and rock stars have two things in common, " Rick Ridgeway observes in The Do Boys: 52 Stories of Adventure. "If they live past 40, many of their friends have not. And if they do reach that milestone, they have probably had as many experiences as most people twice that age." Rick condenses his long lifetime of adventures, from Everest and K2 to Borneo to Antarctica, into stories that bring his experiences in earth's...

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The Last Step"tells the story, written by Rick Ridgeway, a member of the expedition team, of the 1978 first American ascent of K2. It was the third ascent overall of K2 and the first on which any members reached the summit without using supplemental oxygen on the final push.

On foot and on their own, four adventurers brave the challenges of nature on a 275-mile trek through one of the most beautiful—and most remote—regions of the world.

In this widely acclaimed tale of adventure, renowned explorer and adventurer Rick Ridgeway takes us on a five-hundred-kilometer trek from the icy summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, across the famed Tsavo parks of Kenya, to the shores of the Indian Ocean. Here is a rare and pulse-quickening view of one of the last wild places on Earth, as Ridgeway and his party find themselves eyeball to eyeball with lion and buffalo, elephant and crocodile. But Ridg...

On foot and on their own, four adventurers brave the challenges of nature on a 275-mile trek through one of the most beautiful—and most remote—regions of the world.