Since the Chinese occupation of Tibet half a century ago, the children of the Snow Land have been fleeing to India because they see no future in their homeland. Austrian filmmaker and author Maria Blumencron has been committed to Tibet for ten years and has accompanied six children on their escape over the peaks of the Himalayas to Dharamsala in northern India, where the Dalai Lama has established large educational institutions for the children of his homeland. In "Goodbye, Tibet," she now recounts the harrowing story of an eighteen-year-old Tibetan refugee helper who tries to lead his friends to freedom. When Maria Blumencron and her team trek to the nearly 6000-meter-high Nangpa border pass in March 2007, they unexpectedly encounter this group of refugees. One boy is close to death, and a race against time begins. The book reflects the trauma, strength, and hope of a people threatened with extinction.