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Expedition Team – An Introduction
Nothing – no journey, no endeavour can happen without a team and somewhat of a shared vision. Journeys through the mountains require...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 7, 20132 min read
Expedition Update – The North Face Sponsors our Journey
With less than a month to go before our “Route of Wind and Wool” commences, and with training and prepping continuing it is time to pay...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 7, 20131 min read
Expedition Update “The Route of Wool and Wind”
Time is winding down on preparations for Michael and I to depart for Ladakh and the India Himalaya. Our month long exploration of one of...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 28, 20132 min read
Tom Carter’s China Anthology: “Unsavory Elements” – Stories of foreigners on
Proud to be a contributor to this spirited and very ‘now’ book on China’s potent ‘present’ tense. Book now available from Earnshaw Books....
Jeff Fuchs
May 9, 20131 min read
South Tea Sips 2: Meals, Forearms, and an Enduring Tea Truth
Meals seem to at times provide the only respite from the luscious infusions of tea which hit from everywhere at once. We sit in Dafa’s...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 26, 20136 min read
Ascent of Gold Pass
It is said amidst the Himalayas that it takes but a whiff of mountain air to know what is coming weather-wise. Neither Fred, Fik, nor I...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 15, 20138 min read
Video Post Atop Sho’La Pass
A short clip of video shot atop the blustery Sho’La Pass here: http://youtu.be/oKGR8Xt0Lgw Yanpi, the wind, a huge sky and myself. Twenty...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 11, 20121 min read
The Journey to Sho’La Pass – Part 5 – The Pass, The Wind, and a Daughter
A morning of departure portrait. Myself, Yanpi (centre), and Tenzin Up until the morning of our departure for the pass, our horseman has...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 10, 20129 min read
The Journey to Sho’La Pass – Part 4 – The Smell of the Pass
Baima’s empty valleys and snow shards stare at us. We have left Benzilan behind and ‘Ngawa the Machine’ is no longer with us. Mountain...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 6, 20128 min read
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 2, 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 24, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 29, 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 8, 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
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