FIRST ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD is the story of a incredible journey. In the days of jet travel and packaged tours, Peter Hillary and Graeme Dingle choose to travel the hardest way - on foot and carrying their supplies - through the toughest terrain in the world: the Himalayas. They climbed and tramped for 5,000 kilometres. It took them ten months. They passed through regions and countries which are merely exotic names to most of us - Sikkim, Nepal, Garwhal, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, Ladakh, Tibet - and of course India and Pakistan. They moved amongst three major ethnic groups, and heard more than fifty dialects. They stepped back in time, visiting places normally inaccessible to the outside world, and with a way of life which has remained unchanged for centuries.

Superbly illlustrated with over 100 colour photographs, this amazing book will facinate anyone with an interest in man's efforts to probe unknown realms.

- from the dust jacket.

First Across the Roof of the World: The First-Ever Traverse of the Himalayas - 5000 kilometres from Sikkim to Pakistan
Graeme Dingle & Peter Hillary
Hodder & Stoughton
Auckland
1982

First edition.
Hardback.
Blue cloth boards with titles in silver on spine.
232 pages.
Top of spine very slightly bumped, otherwise in very good second-hand condition.
Binding tight.
Pages clean.
Security tag affixed to the back end-paper.
Dust jacket: slightly faded on the spine, minor shelf wear on the top edge, otherwise in very good condition.