Below Another Sky, by Rick Ridgeway, Signed First Edition 2001

Below Another Sky.  A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father. Ridgeway, Rick.  New York: Henry Holt, 2001.  Signed by Ridgeway.  First Edition.  In 1980 Ridgeway lost a friend to an avalanche while they were climbing.   Years later he takes the friend's daughter to the Himalayas so that she can see where her father died.  The journey takes them from the Khumbu region to Kathmandu, around Mount Kailas and across the Chang Tang plateau to Minya Konka.  Photographic illustrations.  Hardcover, original jacket, maps on the endpapers. 320 pages.  Very good plus condition.