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Expedition Update: The Ice Cometh and Porter Power
Chandra River Valley Mountain smiles are best. In the middle of literally nothing a small tea shop run by this woman selling goods to...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 21, 20136 min read
Expedition Update: Faces of the Mountains – A Team Convenes
Manali Assembling a team that is about to enter into the mountains for a prolonged period of time is part art, part availability, part...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 21, 20134 min read
Expedition ‘The Route of Wind and Wool’ – Getting There
A trader once said that there was no point thinking too much about how one would spend his money when he was only half way to his...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 1, 20133 min read
Expedition Preparation in Hong Kong – The Route of Wind and Wool
With Hong Kong’s torrents coming down and heat coming off of every surface, it seems strange to be packing down jackets, crampons,...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 26, 20132 min read
Expedition Update: Jalamteas sponsors ‘The Route of Wind of Wool’ with green fuel
Not coming as a shock to many, our expedition has gained some fuel of the ancient green variety from my own co-founded ‘Jalamteas‘....
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 18, 20131 min read
Expedition Update: ‘kora’ 100% Yak Wool Performance Baselayers joins as sponsor
Our expedition of ‘Wind and Wool’ will proudly and happily be encased in the Himalayas’ own yak wool on this journey thanks to kora....
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 12, 20131 min read
Expedition Update – A Father’s Advice
My father’s ‘sage’ advice for the upcoming expedition? No words of deep expression of philosophy here. No waxing words of eloquence of...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 11, 20131 min read
Expedition Update: The Where’s and What’s of the ‘Route of Wind and Wool’
Our intended route – a faint path at best that disappears entirely in the snows and sands at times – will average 4,000 metres + and will...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 10, 20132 min read
Expedition Update – Award Winning ‘Kensington Tours’ generously sponsors our ̵
Our expedition has been enhanced with Kensington Tours’ enormous support of ‘The Route of Wind and Wool’. I’m now a contented ‘Explorer...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 10, 20131 min read
Expedition Team – An Introduction
Nothing – no journey, no endeavour can happen without a team and somewhat of a shared vision. Journeys through the mountains require...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 7, 20132 min read
Expedition Update – The North Face Sponsors our Journey
With less than a month to go before our “Route of Wind and Wool” commences, and with training and prepping continuing it is time to pay...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 7, 20131 min read
Expedition Update “The Route of Wool and Wind”
Time is winding down on preparations for Michael and I to depart for Ladakh and the India Himalaya. Our month long exploration of one of...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 29, 20132 min read
South Tea Sips 5: Concluding Sips…for now
One of the many tea hostesses that inevitably must tire of our continued sipping Last days inevitably require ‘last sips’, though no sips...
Jeff Fuchs
May 8, 20136 min read
South Tea Sips 4: The Extra Leaf
Bent over, with the smell of freshly fried tea literally steaming into me I am struck that the wafts emanating upwards seem a combination...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 25, 20137 min read
South Tea Sips 3: Moustaches and Matè Unleashed
Those who enjoy tea’s ability to “lay the hammer down softly” have always held Jing Mai teas in regard. These words were used once by a...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 5, 20139 min read
South Tea Sips 2: Meals, Forearms, and an Enduring Tea Truth
Meals seem to at times provide the only respite from the luscious infusions of tea which hit from everywhere at once. We sit in Dafa’s...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 27, 20136 min read
Ascent of Gold Pass
It is said amidst the Himalayas that it takes but a whiff of mountain air to know what is coming weather-wise. Neither Fred, Fik, nor I...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 16, 20138 min read
Video Post Atop Sho’La Pass
A short clip of video shot atop the blustery Sho’La Pass here: http://youtu.be/oKGR8Xt0Lgw Yanpi, the wind, a huge sky and myself. Twenty...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 11, 20121 min read
The Journey to Sho’La Pass – Part 5 – The Pass, The Wind, and a Daughter
A morning of departure portrait. Myself, Yanpi (centre), and Tenzin Up until the morning of our departure for the pass, our horseman has...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 10, 20129 min read
The Journey to Sho’La Pass – Part 4 – The Smell of the Pass
Baima’s empty valleys and snow shards stare at us. We have left Benzilan behind and ‘Ngawa the Machine’ is no longer with us. Mountain...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 6, 20128 min read
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