Lecture: Rick Ridgeway

Tate Grand Hall

Rick Ridgeway, Vice President of Environmental Affairs at Patagonia clothing company, will present a lecture entitled “The Elephant in the Room.” Ridgeway is a mountaineer, adventurer, environmentalist, writer, filmmaker and businessman who oversees vanguard environmental and sustainability initiatives. He was part of the 1978 team that included the first Americans to summit K2, the world's second-highest mountain.

Lecture

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