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...
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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
Jun 20, 20192 min read
Mustang and its Eastern Route – Spring 2019 – Part 1 The Khampa Route
Returns insist upon some reflection and this return is no different. Half a month upon that route of high along the eastern flank of...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 23, 20191 min read
Tea Horse Road – Witness
“The tea caravans would come from the north and they would come in Spring and even winter. The Khampas who accompanied the caravans could...
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 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
Apr 2, 20181 min read
Himalayan Pashmina – The Journeys That Wool Took
Outpost Magazine just revisited a story I wrote about a series of trade routes that brought Pashmina wool from high in the Himalayas down...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 1, 20178 min read
Puerh’s Ancient Cylinder – 竹面 – Zhú tǒng
A local with a freshly unveiled ‘tong’ coming out of its bamboo home. The round cylinder of compressed Puerh, known in southern Yunnan to...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 9, 20172 min read
Tea Explorer Extended Run – On CBC’s Doc Channel
We’re delighted to announce that our documentary film The Tea Explorer film is getting an additional airing on Sunday Sept, 10th at 9 pm...
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
Mar 20, 20161 min read
Tea’s Last Guardians – The Himalayan Muleteers and the Tea Horse Road
Joining the storied Royal Geographical Society here in London as they host my upcoming talks: Tea’s Last Guardians – The Himalayan...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 28, 20161 min read
Nomad’s Fine Food – Air-Dried Yak
Tibetan styled air drying. Slabs of yak meat hang in a nomad’s tent letting 4500-metre air and wind dry one of the vital protein sources...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 31, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 6
Magnificent Raju, an old friend, and landscapes that are tortured and utterly narcotic. The Mountains’ and their people and spaces that...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 29, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 4
Continued Tributes: A Father After feeding us in his home, this Tibetan man went over to his son who was our guide, and briefly touched...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 19, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 2
A continuing of the epic characters, moments, and spaces of the past years in no particular order along with the requisite captions. To...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 22, 20143 min read
Snow Curtains in Tibet
Winter has set in marking the end of my own season within the Himalayas and Tibet. It is time for the grand silences and deep cold –...
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...
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