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...
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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
Aug 18, 20114 min read
Horses, Blue and a Rail
Qinghai or for the Tibetans, Amdo – Michael and I have entered from the eastern Gansu border by that ‘everywhere’ mode of transportation...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 6, 20113 min read
The Way of Heights
A sight and activity repeated twice daily – milking. Tibetan tents and compounds are usually erected facing east…and the rising sun...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 1, 20114 min read
Yaks, Creases and Nomads
The calm force that is Songjem The man we pick up in Nyimalung has the calm eyes and weathered face that the mountains create and sculpt...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 6, 20114 min read
Amne Machin Farewell – A Descent
Early morning wind upon an Amne Machin ridge Looking at the sky we see fierce white monotones and wind’s power, below in front of us on...
Jeff Fuchs
May 29, 20117 min read
Yak ‘Beauty’ and a Switch – Mountains’ Tales
We awake with a shudder to mountain cold and the realization that something has changed overnight regarding our ‘team’. Clear air with a...
Jeff Fuchs
May 27, 20116 min read
Amne Machin White and A Travelling Circus
Our two yak stand still in the blowing white snow; around them there is nothing to suggest a specific time-period and looking at their...
Jeff Fuchs
May 12, 20114 min read
The Jewel of the Heights
Jeff coddles some white gold At first it is a glimmer, nothing more than a reflection that I think might be there. Shimmering heat...
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