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Expedition – The Glacier’s Breath
Glacier water sluices down near the Changtang region of the Himalayas Preparing to head back into the precious Himalayas of Ladakh for a...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 5, 20152 min read
Southwest – Arriving to Pu erh Tea Central
Flights can anesthetize one from a full-on experience at times (however brutal that experience might be) and so it is that the journey...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 5, 20157 min read
A Little More Winter
Winter in the Himalayas “Often leaves in small stages…but sometimes it simply leaves one night” says Kersang from her village near Deqin...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 18, 20153 min read
Mountains and Their Precious Rivers
Returning to northwestern Yunnan’s snow-clad mountains and their precious waterways. We’ll wander up the Salween River (pronounced Gyalmo...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 9, 20151 min read
The Ancient Tea Horse Road – Now in Portuguese
As an old trader along the Ancient Tea Horse Road once remarked to our team as we traveled through his village, “You all are lucky...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 21, 20151 min read
Tea Horse Road – words from Drolma
Elder Drolma from Dzogong speaks and reminisces about the days of the Tea Horse Road linking her home in eastern Tibet with Lhasa and...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 14, 20151 min read
Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs
Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs Condè Nast Traveller introduces my latest tea-fueled exercises in the green leaf here. A...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 23, 20141 min read
Snow Curtains in Tibet
Winter has set in marking the end of my own season within the Himalayas and Tibet. It is time for the grand silences and deep cold –...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 21, 20143 min read
Our Expedition Ladakh gets Cover Feature in Outpost Magazine
Delighted to make the cover-feature (top-less no less) of Canada’s award-winning Outpost Magazine in the current edition. Our journey...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 29, 20141 min read
Sri Lanka In Style and Dilmah Teas join with Jeff Fuchs
Though I’m not known for cocktails, looking forward to joining tea-stained forces with Dilmah Teas and Sri Lanka In Style for a series of...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 17, 20141 min read
Tea Horse Road – The Faces
Yeshi during an interview in Pomda, in western Sichuan Province Beyond simply the daunting snow passes, eccentric bandits, and...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 26, 20141 min read
The Tea Horse Road Expedition – 8 Years’ On…
Eight years ago this month, a team of mountain men that were in part desperate, utterly tough, and not entirely sure of what was to come,...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 23, 20142 min read
Photo Essay Feature in Action Asia Adventure Magazine: The Tea Horse Road, Nomadic Route of Salt, an
Photo-Essay feature of mine out in Hong Kong’s Action Asia this week. Images and tales of the precious Himalayan ‘routes through the...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 17, 20141 min read
Interview with a legend of the Himalayas: Sadanand the Mountain Man
That wonderful renegade man of the mountains, Sadanand, who was such a dynamic horseman on our most recent expedition (and unknowingly...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 14, 20141 min read
Award-Winning Writer Mariellen Ward Got Curious about an explorer, and then Interviewed Me
Always nice when someone is asking questions and allows responses which are laden with tangents (which I’ve been known to do). Mariellen...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 13, 20141 min read
Explorers Club Talk – Jeff Fuchs Presents the Himalaya’s ‘Route of Wind and Wool&#
February 14 at 7:15 PM ET: Explorer Jeff Fuchs and the Route of Wind and Wool at Valentine’s Day Talk….ahem Kensington Tours 36 Toronto...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 11, 20142 min read
Tea Horse Road and the Women’s Touch
As a New Year came in I thought back to those whose ‘new’ year’s have not yet come. I thought back to three generations of women who...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 8, 20141 min read
Two Worlds – The Himalayas and the South Pacific – and Global Warming
So much of the time I’ve had here with the East West Center in Honolulu as an invited speaker has been time spent showing, seeing, and...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 14, 20131 min read
Himalayas Change – A Nomad’s Words About Mountains
A’bing of Ganzi at 4,700 meters in a tent speaking of life in the heights. “Winter no longer knows when it wants to come. It no longer...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 1, 20131 min read
Himalayas’ Words – The Wolf aka, ‘The Old Master’
“Wolves are what we (nomads) fear most. They know us well and though I fear them, they are important for the land. They know how to wait...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 24, 20131 min read
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