To keep his country's dream
of independence alive by means
of a government in exile, the young ruler would not only have to brave
battalions of enemy soldiers and the whiteout conditions waiting on the slopes
of the Himalayas» highest peaks, he'd have to overcome a different type
of blindness: the naïveté intrinsic to his sheltered palace life and his position as
leader of a
people who considered violence deeply taboo.