Jeff Fuchs

Jan 17, 20205 min read

Langtang 3 – Top To Bottom and an Avalanche

Sonam moves up singing, chatting, all the while moving through his Tibetan Mala beads. Mingmar dances from stone outcroppings to thatches...

Jeff Fuchs

Jan 5, 20206 min read

Langtang 2 – Across What Was

Langtang, the land called “Ox’s land” is grassland valley and ‘was’ a village…one that has been destroyed, reset eastward and rebuilt (if...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 16, 20194 min read

Langtang – Himalayan Water Towers…and herbs

Perceptions are everything and here there is so very much within sensing distance. Syabrubesi is a dusty gateway that lies behind us. We...

Jeff Fuchs

Jun 29, 20194 min read

Spring 2019 – Part 2 – Solukhumbu – The Spires and The Everest Three Passes Trek

The second part of our journey took us from the high arid zones of Mustang right into the rumbling, high spires of Solukhumbu. The lands...

Jeff Fuchs

Jan 14, 20197 min read

Mustang Spaces 4 – Lo Gekar and Kunga

Abu is chatty. Not prone to overly long sessions of speaking, Abu, when he is talking, usually has something to expel and it is always a...

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

Sep 15, 20164 min read

Glaciers’ Breath ll Update – Ice, Ganges, and Shiva

Our departure nears from here in Hong Kong’s heat to India’s northern Himalaya range and the ascent to Gangotri glacier. From the heavens...

Jeff Fuchs

Aug 29, 20163 min read

The Glaciers’ Breath ll Expedition – The Ganges’ Source

Preparation Notes…and Tea Stirring through some cakes and balls of tea deciding on the leaves to take on this upcoming venture to the...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 7, 20154 min read

The Glacier’s Breath – Amid the Temples of Ice

Debra Tan’s lungs and ligaments are strained still but she is learning the mountain way: ‘dirè dirè’ (slowly slowly) and all will pass....

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

Sep 30, 20141 min read

Our Expedition Ladakh gets Cover Feature in Outpost Magazine

Delighted to make the cover-feature (top-less no less) of Canada’s award-winning Outpost Magazine in the current edition. Our journey...

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...