Forty Years of Trekking in the Himalaya

Inspired by the devoted practice of Tibetan Buddhism they encountered in the villagers they met on their first trek to Nepal in 1981, photographer William Frej and his wife Anne Frej set out on a quest to document Asia’s highest peaks. A chronicle of their 40 years of Himalayan journeys is now available in a new book entitled Travels Across the Roof of the World.

Nearly four decades after our first trip to the Himalaya in 1981, we started looking once again at the photographs and journals from our travels. Thousands of Kodachrome color slides in plastic sheets lay dormant in archival boxes.
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