Michael Palin undertakes his most challenging journey yet in this BBC travel series across the Himalayas the greatest mountain range on earth made up of a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to south-west China Along his journey Michael Palin encounters extremes of wealth & poverty altitude & freezing cold & meets amongst many others the Dalai Lama the Bhutanese Royal Family & the once-feared head hunting tribe of the Konyak His travels take him through Afghanistan across India to the feared & Death Zone& near the base of Mount Everest & then on to the Bhutanese capital before finally arriving in the Bay of Bengal