Life Lived Wild BookRick Ridgeway calculates that he's spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: "Small tents pitched in the world's most remote regions." Whether at elevation or raising a family at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, "to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence." Some of his adventures made news: the first American ascent of K2; the first traverse of Borneo; the first crossing on foot of a corner of Tibet so