In the summer of 1958 three English housewives drove 8,000 miles to India. All married to mountaineers they decided to have an adventure of their own. Eve Sims, Anne Davies and Antonia Deacock set their sites on Zanskar; a remote Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom in the North West Himalaya, the highest inhabited valley on earth and one of the last unexplored regions on the map.

After six weeks of driving the women arrived in India to discover that it would be impossible to visit Zanskar without special permits and these had not been granted to any Europeans for many years. Zanskar lay beyond the infamous inner-line, beyond which no-one was allowed to travel for reasons of personal safety and Indian border security.

The women carried with them a cine camera given to them by one of their sponsors, Ovaltine, with the special request that they film their adventure and make an Ovaltine commercial in the valley. Despite their stills cameras being badly damaged during river crossings during the 5 week trek through the valley, the cine film survived and has remained unseen for many years. It wasn't until the film was recently uncovered it became apparent that the women's film was very rare and it was established that it was the first ever colour moving footage shot in the Zanskar valley.

The film has been re-cut and the story of the women uncovered thanks to the involvement of Ovaltine with photographer and film maker Martin Salter. Find out more about the women and Martin.

For press enquiries or more information and hi resolution photographs please contact Martin Salter on 01306 500 154 or email mdjsalter@aol.com