It is 1980. In the wake of a churning, terrifying avalanche on a remote Tibetan mountain face, Rick Ridgeway cradles his dying friend, Jonathan, in his arms and pledges to keep watch over Jonathan's infant daughter. The girl is named Asia, after the mysterious and mountainous land her father so loved.Two decades pass and Asia, now a vibrant and headstrong young woman, approaches Ridgeway with a request that is at once both simple and profound. Will he take her to her father's beloved Himalayas to search for the place where he died? Below Another Sky chronicles this gripping and emotional adventure, which takes the pair across forbidding terrain from Katmandu, around sacred Mount Kailas, across China to the Crystal Mountains, to the mountain called Minya Konka - where their destiny awaits them.
As he talks to Asia about her father, Ridgeway unfolds a memoir of his own celebrated life of adventure, offering poignant insights into how we relate to wild places and about what drives true explorers. Ultimately, the truths these two people seek are revealed, not in the images of a life long gone, but in the promise of future possibilities, as both Ridgeway and his dead friend's daughter finally embrace the realities of death - and of life.