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 last wild places back to sea level where all of can reflect on lessons learned. "The most valuable stories, " Rick writes, "are outside the small spheres of our own lives, and paying attention to them can guide us into wider worlds.