Annual Meeting of Shaw Island Library & Historical Society with Guest Speaker Rick Ridgeway

Rick Ridgeway is an outdoor adventurer, writer and advocate for sustainability and conservation initiatives. He is one of the world’s foremost mountaineers. With three companions, he was the first American to summit K2, and he has done other significant climbs and explorations on all continents. He has written seven books, many magazine stories and produced and directed dozens of television shows. Of his memoir Life Lived Wild (2021), Academy Award-winning film director Jimmy Chin said, “Rick Ridgeway . . . captures the essence of a lifetime of story-telling.”