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

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

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

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

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...