~ことこの上ない is a fixed emphatic pattern literally 'nothing surpasses this X,' meaning 'nothing could be more X, X in the extreme.' Used with adjectives or noun+な to mean 'maximally X.' 指示代名詞 ('demonstrative pronouns' — これ, それ, あれ etc.) ~づらい ('hard to X') attaches to verb stems for 'difficult to do.'