march 31, 1959, a column of about thirty individuals exhausted is present at the neck of Khenzimana which marks the border between Tibet and India. Some are on horseback, others on a yak or on foot. There, soldiers, monks and peasants, all armed. All sport a big smile, because they have managed to escape the clutches of the chinese. They left Lhasa fourteen days earlier, during which they have crossed the peaks of the himalayan snow-covered. Fourteen days of a grueling, hunger and extreme fatigue. But they were successful. The members of the troupe…
