Feature Article in Outpost – The Kingdom of Lo (Mustang)
Timely cover feature in Outpost magazine as I head back up and into Nepal’s Himalayas and their tales and characters, their struggles,...
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Jeff Fuchs
Apr 29, 20193 min read
Nepal – The Buzz That Leads to the Sky
There are few other gateway spaces that lead to zones of majesty, silence and winds, that are themselves such chaotic charmers, as...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 22, 20185 min read
Mustang Spaces 3 – The Smell of Smoke, The Scent of Sun
Withered little holes of caves rest in a line hundreds of metres above on a sheer wall of red stone. This pattern has repeated itself...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 8, 20187 min read
Mustang Spaces 2 – The Cup, The Mountains
The Tibetan term ‘gtum mo’, pronounced “Tummo” refers to the tantric tradition of meditation that summons or produces heat and a kind of...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Mustang Spaces 1 – The Khampa Route
Returns can soothe and returns to mountain spaces can do so with a powerful combination of elemental force and nostalgia for me. It...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 10, 20182 min read
Mustang, Leaves, and Kunga
Ladakh expedition plans changed last minute to Mustang. One stunning Himalayan world for another…and one historically linked to another...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 29, 20182 min read
Qhapaq Nan – The ‘other’ Great Route Through the Sky
Departures by plane seem to suck some of the magic out of tangible travel but they do usher in other spaces and ways of life in a rush...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 17, 20172 min read
Feature Article: The Great Gangotri – Feeder of the Ganges
Gongotri Glacier – Great Feeder of the River Ganges One of the great moving river bodies of the planet, the mother Ganges, is fed by the...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 5, 20174 min read
Mustang – Part 2 – Route of Khampas
“A land of little and a route of much” is how I often view this present journey and it is how I’ve viewed many of Himalayan trade routes...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 16, 20174 min read
Mustang’s Eastern Trade Route
Trade routes (still) offer up hints and teasers about how lands evolved and functioned. Everything from DNA to luxuries and tid-bits from...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 31, 20169 min read
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update V – A Descent
Berinder is impatient and staring in his mournful way at Saurabh and I to hurry. He wants to move and it is our day to make another...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 27, 20163 min read
Glacier’s Breath Expedition – Gangotri Update 2
Berinder, with pink wooly marvellously intact. Berinder is his name. Tiny, unsmiling, and topped off with a vibrant pink woolen cap I’ve...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 21, 20163 min read
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update l
First steps towards Gangotri Glacier involve words from an impeccable source. For six decades Swami Sunderland has climbed, wandered, and...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 29, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 5
Owing to Hector the Brave’s popularity and the debt to which our ‘Glacier’s Breath’ Expedition owes his efforts, a video in honour of our...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 6, 20152 min read
Expedition – The Glacier’s Breath
Glacier water sluices down near the Changtang region of the Himalayas Preparing to head back into the precious Himalayas of Ladakh for a...
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
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 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 1, 20133 min read
Expedition ‘The Route of Wind and Wool’ – Getting There
A trader once said that there was no point thinking too much about how one would spend his money when he was only half way to his...
Jeff Fuchs
May 10, 20131 min read
Tom Carter’s China Anthology: “Unsavory Elements” – Stories of foreigners on
Proud to be a contributor to this spirited and very ‘now’ book on China’s potent ‘present’ tense. Book now available from Earnshaw Books....
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