Tea Horse Road Chronicles Part 2 - Coming Snow
Nomads tuck into wools as a snow storm begins to usher in a new sky and new snow-filled gusts near Litang, in western Sichuan. The...
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Jeff Fuchs
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min
Intuition, Water, and Tales from a Boy
Thinking about times past, lessons, and inspired moments and a little sun burned cheeks, few words, and a fearless countenance comes to...
Jeff Fuchs
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
Live Chat with Michael Kleinwort and Kora this Wednesday April 15th at 16:00 PST
Within one of the many nomadic encampments where Michael and I shared tea, warmth, and tales. Will be chatting all things mountains,...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 17, 2020
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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 11, 2019
- 2 min
Our “In From the Outpost” TV Teasers Are Officially Out
One of the most impactful concepts and terms last year was the word ‘Ayni’. Used in the Andean world by many of its peoples, it was a...
Jeff Fuchs
- Aug 13, 2019
- 1 min
Northern India – A collaboration with Exodus Travels and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society
Tea fuelled, I’ll be returning to one my favourite haunts – and of the most intense and provocative spaces anywhere – collaborating with...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jun 29, 2019
- 4 min
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
- Jun 20, 2019
- 2 min
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
- Apr 29, 2019
- 3 min
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
- Apr 11, 2019
- 3 min
Akahiao Nature Institute…and tea times
When, a few years ago, I left northwestern Yunnan to join my wife Julie and live here in Hawaii, there were concerns that I’d somehow be...
Jeff Fuchs
- Feb 27, 2019
- 1 min
Ayni – Reciprocity. The Third Installment of our Andean Journeys along the Inca Road
The Llama’s ass, tea leaves, and a mountain where the Royal Incas came for guidance from the still-reverent spirit world. Our last...
Jeff Fuchs
- Feb 23, 2019
- 1 min
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
- Feb 6, 2019
- 1 min
The Tea Horse Road – The Grace
A little moment of respite for our incredible hostess who remains still, one of most formidable characters in my memory palace. While...
Jeff Fuchs
- Feb 2, 2019
- 1 min
Part 2 of our ‘In from the Outpost’
Second Part of our recent ramblings through Peru and the Andean world, with a visit to the village of Chawaytiri here. After demolishing...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 18, 2019
- 2 min
The Tea That Got Away
Every single year on the tea foraging and sourcing missions I go on, there is a tea that – for any number of reasons – I miss out on...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 14, 2019
- 7 min
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
- Jan 11, 2019
- 1 min
In the Land of Ayni (Part 1) – Outpost Magazine
Part 1 of our journey into the Andean world and my own slight obsession with the concept and Quechuan word, Ayni, here. The Quechuan word...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 22, 2018
- 5 min
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...
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