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The Journey to Sho’La Pass – Part 3 – A Route of Stone and Ngawa’s Wife
Heat and its lethargy inducing powers have long played havoc with my own senses and perspectives. I am not alone in this feeling. Exiting...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 4, 20128 min read
The Journey to Sho’La Pass – Part 2 – Sandalwood and Heat
What is eternally rivetting about the mountains is their ability to hold traces of what has come before on their surfaces, while...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 3, 20128 min read
The Journey to Sho’La Pass – Part 1 – Horsemen Are Always Late…
Songjè the horseman is late. It isn’t unusual for this part of the world, but still the same, it is something that burrows its way into...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 25, 20127 min read
Expedition: Shangri-La to sacred Sho’La Pass Begins
A team of five of us begin the trek from Shangri-La to the sacred 4,815 metre Sho’La Pass tomorrow via an old trade route that wanders...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 12, 20121 min read
The Lion and the Descent – The Sacred Lakes in the Heights – Part lll of lll
Aniè wakes and pours some of the lake’s sacred water onto his head to bless family, health, and our own journey Morning comes with smoke...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 12, 20126 min read
The Lost Route, Found – The Sacred Lakes in the Heights – Part ll
When a memory of a memory inevitably isn’t quite what one expected there is a kind of exasperation, a kind of disbelief that one cannot...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 12, 20129 min read
Memory of a Memory – The Sacred Lakes in the Heights Part l
*This article will appear in Mandarin on North Face’s Quyeba.com adventure website in the coming week as part of our collaboration A...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 12, 20126 min read
Sacred Lakes Expedition – The Night-Before Departure
Picking up supplies today for the upcoming journey, I asked our resident elder Aniè – who will be leading the group – what I needed to...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 1, 20122 min read
Sacred Lakes Expedition – Led by a Memory
Nighttime temperatures plummet and there are pockets of snow up in the mountains, yet there are no weather reports in the areas we will...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 30, 20122 min read
Mupa, Nyima, and Songjè – (Cloud, Sun, and Songjè)
The word for mist, clouds, and fog in many Tibetan regions is the same: mupa. Mupa is what engulfs us and sucks us all into itself and...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 9, 201211 min read
Songjè and a Sacred Lake – Part l of ll
Bells chime through the wet air and the odd manic high-pitched wail of urging in Tibetan rips over the grassland. Plodding through the...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 7, 20126 min read
A Sacred Lake and the Horseman
One of the heroes of my last journey, completed on September 26th in northwestern Yunnan. A face, a voice, and hands of stone to match,...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 30, 20121 min read
Doctor ‘Mountain’ and the Temple – Part ll of ll
An endearing and parting shot of the Doctor With the doctor behind me, but very much still in the mind, I head north towards this “little...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 30, 20125 min read
Doctor ‘Mountain’ and the Temple – Part l of ll
One of the waterways that veers its way through the valleys, west of ‘Shangri-La’ Within a valley west of Shangri-La’s vaunted title and...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 19, 20127 min read
“Yunnan Tea Road” Article in award winning TRVL
Arriving back to Zhongdian (aka Shangri-La) to wet, hints of snow in the surrounding mountains, and the usual fun and games getting...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 16, 20121 min read
Salt Road Talk at Shanghai’s Capital M
Speaking on September 6th at ‘M on the Bund’ in Shanghai about another of Asia’s timeless commodities, ‘salt’ and our first (and the...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 1, 20121 min read
UNESCO article on Nomadic Perspectives of Climate Change is up
“It is in the mountains that fate is decided” nomadic saying Delighted that a piece I’ve done on Tibetan nomadic perspectives on Climate...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 22, 20121 min read
Kawa Karpo Expedition Feature out in Outpost Magazine’s edition #89
At long last the Kawa Karpo Expedition that Bill Roberts, Roberto Gibbons Gomez, myself and a titanic guide named Daba undertook and...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 18, 20121 min read
Ebook of my “The Ancient Tea Horse Road” now – and finally – available
At long last an ebook version of my ‘The Ancient Tea Horse Road‘ lives and breathes, making the whole tale a little more convenient and...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 8, 20122 min read
Kawa Karpo Expedition feature in Outpost Magazine coming August 6th
Bill Roberts’ feature article of our February expedition to Kawa Karpo is set for an August 6th release date in Canada’s award-winning...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 30, 20121 min read
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