Across the Snow Mountains

For centuries, Tibetans crossed the Himalayas on pilgrimages and trade expeditions. But since China’s occupation, that passage has become a dangerous escape route—a crossing between home and exile.

Across the Snow Mountains: From Tibet to Exile, shares the extraordinary true stories of four Tibetan women who risked everything to journey across the world’s highest peaks. With little more than faith and tenacity, they walked for weeks through unforgiving terrain. Each woman’s path—from nomadic pastures and remote villages to refugee life in India—reveals not only survival against impossible odds, but also the profound resilience of the Tibetan spirit.

Through voices that are raw, courageous, and deeply human, this book illuminates the cost of displacement and the enduring hope that sustains a people in exile. Both an intimate portrait and a vital historical account, Across the Snow Mountains is a testament to courage, loss, and the unbreakable will to be free.