Award-Winning Writer Mariellen Ward Got Curious about an explorer, and then Interviewed Me
Always nice when someone is asking questions and allows responses which are laden with tangents (which I’ve been known to do). Mariellen...
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Jeff Fuchs
Feb 11, 20142 min read
Explorers Club Talk – Jeff Fuchs Presents the Himalaya’s ‘Route of Wind and Wool&#
February 14 at 7:15 PM ET: Explorer Jeff Fuchs and the Route of Wind and Wool at Valentine’s Day Talk….ahem Kensington Tours 36 Toronto...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 9, 20141 min read
Tea Horse Road and the Women’s Touch
As a New Year came in I thought back to those whose ‘new’ year’s have not yet come. I thought back to three generations of women who...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 1, 20131 min read
Himalayas Change – A Nomad’s Words About Mountains
A’bing of Ganzi at 4,700 meters in a tent speaking of life in the heights. “Winter no longer knows when it wants to come. It no longer...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 24, 20131 min read
Himalayas’ Words – The Wolf aka, ‘The Old Master’
“Wolves are what we (nomads) fear most. They know us well and though I fear them, they are important for the land. They know how to wait...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 15, 20131 min read
Interview with Wild China about Trade Routes
The Enduring Obsession and Importance of the Himalayan Trade Routes here #TeaHorseRoad #TeaHorseTrails #Himalayantravel #Chinatravel...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 14, 20131 min read
The Himalayas’ Guardian of the Pass
The face of Lhamo, 23, of Ala Dhotok (Stone Roof) at over 5,000 metres in Eastern Tibet. Her ‘community’ deep within the folds of the...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 8, 20131 min read
Mountain Eyes
One of the immortal faces of the mountains…even though only four-years old. A nomadic girl, whose predecessors were a clan of ‘guardians’...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 6, 20135 min read
Expedition Update: West, Up, North
-Back for the final instalments of our expedition along the Route of Wind and Wool. Leh is gentle pandemonium, but this is an...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 2, 20131 min read
Immortal Words of the Mountains
Another in the series of ‘mountain immortals’ and their equally timeless words. Neema, at 89 years old, says of his days upon the...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 29, 20131 min read
Tea Horse Road Portraits Appearing in China’s GoKunming
A series of portraits that I took along that immortal route and obsession of mine, The Tea Horse Road. The series is simply called ‘The...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 28, 20131 min read
New Article in About.com About the Tea Horse Road…
Was asked to do an article about those stunning and often tortured Himalayas for About.com on trade and those icons of the mountains, the...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 25, 20131 min read
Mountain Eloquence
#HimalayanExpedition #oralnarratives #Traders #Himalayantravel #HimalayanHistory #Himalayas #JeffFuchs #mountains #Mountainculture
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 24, 20131 min read
Expedition Update: Video of Parang La Descent
A little video clip here shot as our team descends the magic monochrome of ice that is the Parang Pass. This pass was as notorious for...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 21, 20131 min read
South China Morning Post Feature of our expedition – “The Pass Masters” –
My feature of the ‘Route of Wind and Wool’ in full tea fuelled ‘colour’ here #JeffFuchsArticle #Therouteofwindandwool...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 30, 20132 min read
Expedition Update: A Team’s Faces
The skin, bones, and essence of our trip: the faces and personalities behind the efforts. I thought it time to properly ‘introduce’ the...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 15, 20134 min read
Asses, Water, and Footprints
‘That’ Wild Ass…. Wild Asses exist. One long muscular creature stands in front of the shimmering surface that marks the legendary Tso...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 7, 20139 min read
Expedition Update: Purple and the Pass
Mornings, and particularly bad one’s can be down to simply being unable to shut off the mind the night before, or too much cold, maybe...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 31, 20137 min read
Expedition Update: An Epic Horseman
Bandits and brigands who were ever creative would often strike not at or after the crossing of a pass but rather in the valleys leading...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 29, 20135 min read
Expedition Update: Spiti, The Middle Land
Suresh and his power are gone. We have come out of the Chandra River Valley and climbed up and over and into the Spiti Valley…known to...
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