Escape over the Himalayas: Tibet's Children on Their Journey into Exile

Every year, hundreds of Tibetan children and teenagers are sent on their own across the icy Himalayan passes, in the hope of reaching northern India and the chance of an education in their own language and culture.

Escape over the Himalayas follows six of these children on their trek into exile. “I was more afraid of the Chinese than I was of the snow and the wild animals,” says eight-year-old Chime. “I thought about my mother the whole way.”

The film is shared by the Tibetan Children’s Villages, the schools in exile where many of these children grow up.