Well-known travel writer Bill Aitken was fifty years old when he first got on a bike. And then he chose to attempt the near impossible - a solo motorcycle ride across the Himalaya and the Sahyadri, the most challenging mountain ranges of India. Over the next ten years, Aitken traversed practically the whole country, from Garhwal to Arunachal, and from Ladakh to Kanyakumari. In this book he relives the high points of his extraordinary romance with the hills: an unexpected encounter with a hungry leopard in the jungles of Himachal, a last-minute rescue from the fury of Brahmaputra by the Boarder Road Organization, an exhilarating ride through the beautifully regimented tea gardens of Assam and Kerala, and above all, the spellbinding beauty and grandeur of the natural landscape.

All over India.