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==Mountaineering and adventure==
[[File:K2-above-Bottleneck.jpg|thumb|200px|Formidable [[serac]] loom above the [[Bottleneck (K2)|Bottleneck]], 400m below the 28,251 ft summit of [[K2]] – the second highest in the world, which Ridgeway reached without supplemental oxygen in 1978 (image from 1986)]]
Ridgeway started his mountaineering career in the late '60s and early '70s, making first ascents and new routes on a series of expeditions to the Peruvian Andes. In 1976 he joined the American Bicentennial Everest Expedition, and that led to joining the 1978 expedition to [[K2]].<ref>Sunden, Mark.[http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/best-of/rick-ridgeway-text Don't Fence Him In]. December 2008. National Geographic Adventure Magazine. p. 98</ref> Ridgeway and his three teammates were the first Americans to summit K2, the world's second highest mountain (8,611 m/28,251 ft) located in the [[Karakoram]] range. K2 is known for the inherent danger in climbing it, featuring a steep pyramidal relief and long
In the early '80s Ridgeway joined the original [[Seven Summits]] expeditions, and also began to explore little known regions − making the first direct coast-to-coast traverse of [[Borneo]], and exploring remote regions from the [[Amazon Basin|Amazon]] to Antarctica.
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