Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father

A renowned adventurer travels to Tibet with a young woman in search of her father’s memory and gains a fresh perspective on his own life

In a gripping adventure and intimate memoir, Rick Ridgeway takes us high into the mountains of Tibet and into the remote corners of his past. Twenty years ago, Rick sat amongst the destruction of a terrifying avalanche cradling his dying friend Jonathan in his arms. Before his friend passed on, Rick vowed to keep watch over Jonathan’s infant daughter, Asia.

Now Asia has grown into a vibrant and headstrong young woman. Hoping to help her connect with the father she never knew, Rick takes her to the Himalayas, the mountain ranges her father cherished most, to search for the place where he died. The trek through remote and forbidding terrain is a fitting backdrop for the precarious emotional journey that the travelers share.

In a stunning conclusion on a treacherous and wind-battered mountain face, Rick and Asia embrace the deepest realities of death—and life. Ultimately, the truths they both seek are revealed, not in the images of a life long gone, but in the bright promise of future possibility.