Jeff FuchsDec 6, 20201 minTea Horse Road Chronicles Part 2 - Coming SnowNomads 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...
Jeff FuchsApr 14, 20201 minLive Chat with Michael Kleinwort and Kora this Wednesday April 15th at 16:00 PSTWithin one of the many nomadic encampments where Michael and I shared tea, warmth, and tales. Will be chatting all things mountains,...
Jeff FuchsJan 17, 20205 minLangtang 3 – Top To Bottom and an AvalancheSonam moves up singing, chatting, all the while moving through his Tibetan Mala beads. Mingmar dances from stone outcroppings to thatches...
Jeff FuchsJan 5, 20206 minLangtang 2 – Across What WasLangtang, the land called “Ox’s land” is grassland valley and ‘was’ a village…one that has been destroyed, reset eastward and rebuilt (if...
Jeff FuchsDec 16, 20194 minLangtang – Himalayan Water Towers…and herbsPerceptions are everything and here there is so very much within sensing distance. Syabrubesi is a dusty gateway that lies behind us. We...
Jeff FuchsNov 19, 20192 minFeature Article in Outpost – The Kingdom of Lo (Mustang)Timely cover feature in Outpost magazine as I head back up and into Nepal’s Himalayas and their tales and characters, their struggles,...
Jeff FuchsAug 13, 20191 minNorthern India – A collaboration with Exodus Travels and the Royal Canadian Geographic SocietyTea fuelled, I’ll be returning to one my favourite haunts – and of the most intense and provocative spaces anywhere – collaborating with...
Jeff FuchsJun 29, 20194 minSpring 2019 – Part 2 – Solukhumbu – The Spires and The Everest Three Passes TrekThe 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 FuchsJun 20, 20192 minMustang and its Eastern Route – Spring 2019 – Part 1 The Khampa RouteReturns insist upon some reflection and this return is no different. Half a month upon that route of high along the eastern flank of...
Jeff FuchsApr 29, 20193 minNepal – The Buzz That Leads to the SkyThere are few other gateway spaces that lead to zones of majesty, silence and winds, that are themselves such chaotic charmers, as...
Jeff FuchsApr 11, 20193 minAkahiao Nature Institute…and tea timesWhen, 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 FuchsFeb 27, 20191 minAyni – Reciprocity. The Third Installment of our Andean Journeys along the Inca RoadThe Llama’s ass, tea leaves, and a mountain where the Royal Incas came for guidance from the still-reverent spirit world. Our last...
Jeff FuchsFeb 23, 20191 minTea 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 FuchsFeb 6, 20191 minThe Tea Horse Road – The GraceA little moment of respite for our incredible hostess who remains still, one of most formidable characters in my memory palace. While...
Jeff FuchsFeb 2, 20191 minPart 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 FuchsJan 14, 20197 minMustang Spaces 4 – Lo Gekar and KungaAbu 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 FuchsJan 11, 20191 minIn the Land of Ayni (Part 1) – Outpost MagazinePart 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 FuchsDec 22, 20185 minMustang Spaces 3 – The Smell of Smoke, The Scent of SunWithered 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 FuchsDec 8, 20187 minMustang Spaces 2 – The Cup, The MountainsThe Tibetan term ‘gtum mo’, pronounced “Tummo” refers to the tantric tradition of meditation that summons or produces heat and a kind of...
Jeff FuchsNov 19, 20185 minMustang Spaces 1 – The Khampa RouteReturns can soothe and returns to mountain spaces can do so with a powerful combination of elemental force and nostalgia for me. It...