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    Tea Horse Road Chronicles Part 2 - Coming Snow
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 6, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
    Live Chat with Michael Kleinwort and Kora this Wednesday April 15th at 16:00 PST
    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,...
    Langtang 3 – Top To Bottom and an Avalanche
    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...
    Langtang 2 – Across What Was
    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...
    Langtang – Himalayan Water Towers…and herbs
    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...
    Feature Article in Outpost – The Kingdom of Lo (Mustang)
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Nov 19, 2019
    • 2 min

    Feature 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,...
    Northern India – A collaboration with Exodus Travels and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society
    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...
    Spring 2019 – Part 2 – Solukhumbu – The Spires and The Everest Three Passes Trek
    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...
    Mustang and its Eastern Route – Spring 2019 – Part 1 The Khampa Route
    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...
    Nepal – The Buzz That Leads to the Sky
    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...
    Akahiao Nature Institute…and tea times
    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...
    Ayni – Reciprocity. The Third Installment of our Andean Journeys along the Inca Road
    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...
    Tea Horse Road – Witness
    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...
    The Tea Horse Road – The Grace
    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...
    Part 2 of our ‘In from the Outpost’
    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...
    Mustang Spaces 4 – Lo Gekar and Kunga
    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...
    In the Land of Ayni (Part 1) – Outpost Magazine
    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...
    Mustang Spaces 3 – The Smell of Smoke, The Scent of Sun
    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...
    Mustang Spaces 2 – The Cup, The Mountains
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 8, 2018
    • 7 min

    Mustang Spaces 2 – The Cup, The Mountains

    The Tibetan term ‘gtum mo’, pronounced “Tummo” refers to the tantric tradition of meditation that summons or produces heat and a kind of...
    Mustang Spaces 1 – The Khampa Route
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Nov 19, 2018
    • 5 min

    Mustang Spaces 1 – The Khampa Route

    Returns can soothe and returns to mountain spaces can do so with a powerful combination of elemental force and nostalgia for me. It...
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