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Interview with Wild China about Trade Routes
The Enduring Obsession and Importance of the Himalayan Trade Routes here #TeaHorseRoad #TeaHorseTrails #Himalayantravel #Chinatravel...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 14, 20131 min read
The Himalayas’ Guardian of the Pass
The face of Lhamo, 23, of Ala Dhotok (Stone Roof) at over 5,000 metres in Eastern Tibet. Her ‘community’ deep within the folds of the...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 14, 20131 min read
Mountain Eyes
One of the immortal faces of the mountains…even though only four-years old. A nomadic girl, whose predecessors were a clan of ‘guardians’...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 7, 20131 min read
Expedition Update: West, Up, North
-Back for the final instalments of our expedition along the Route of Wind and Wool. Leh is gentle pandemonium, but this is an...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 6, 20135 min read
Immortal Words of the Mountains
Another in the series of ‘mountain immortals’ and their equally timeless words. Neema, at 89 years old, says of his days upon the...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 2, 20131 min read
Tea Horse Road Portraits Appearing in China’s GoKunming
A series of portraits that I took along that immortal route and obsession of mine, The Tea Horse Road. The series is simply called ‘The...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 29, 20131 min read
Mountain Eloquence
#HimalayanExpedition #oralnarratives #Traders #Himalayantravel #HimalayanHistory #Himalayas #JeffFuchs #mountains #Mountainculture
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 25, 20131 min read
Expedition Update: A Team’s Faces
The skin, bones, and essence of our trip: the faces and personalities behind the efforts. I thought it time to properly ‘introduce’ the...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 30, 20132 min read
Expedition Update: Purple and the Pass
Mornings, and particularly bad one’s can be down to simply being unable to shut off the mind the night before, or too much cold, maybe...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 6, 20139 min read
Expedition Update: An Epic Horseman
Bandits and brigands who were ever creative would often strike not at or after the crossing of a pass but rather in the valleys leading...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 31, 20137 min read
Expedition Update: Spiti, The Middle Land
Suresh and his power are gone. We have come out of the Chandra River Valley and climbed up and over and into the Spiti Valley…known to...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 29, 20135 min read
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
Jul 31, 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 25, 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 17, 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 9, 20131 min read
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