In 1948, the Nobel Prize-winning poet and Chilean senator, Pablo Neruda, proud member of his country’s Communist Party, accused his government of treason for forging an alliance with the United States. Shortly after, Neruda went underground to escape arrest. For thirteen months he fled from one clandestine safe house to the next. He grew a bushy beard and pretended to be an ornithologist, Antonio Ruiz Legarreta. Under the guise of this false identity, he crossed the frozen Andean Pass of Lilpela on horseback, from Chile to Argentina, to go into exile.