MAPS

A good (and the only) detailed map is the Swiss produced 1:150,000 Sikkim Himalaya, available from specialist outlets such as Stanfords.

BACKGROUND READING 

• Sikkim, a Travellers Guide by Sujoy Das and Arundhati Ray
• Among the Himalayas by Waddell (first pub.1899, reprinted 1998)
  a fascinating and sympathetic account of travels to Lachung and to The Sinaglila Ridge
• Lonely Planet – The Indian Himalaya
• The Secret Lives of Alexander David-Neel by Barbara and Michael Foster
• Lepcha my Vanishing Tribe by A.R. Foning an affectionate description of the customs of this vanishing minority
• Around Kanchenjunga by Douglas Freshfield a rather stuffy Victorian account of a brilliant and still unrepeated expedition
• The Gazeteer of Sikhim by Risley a mine of information about all aspects of the region
• The Kanchenjunga Adventure by Frank Smythe well written account of a climbing expedition
  

Many other books about early Himalayan climbing expeditions to Everest and Kanchenjunga begin with descriptions of their arrival in Darjeeling and subsequent trek into the mountains.