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Yak ‘Beauty’ and a Switch – Mountains’ Tales
We awake with a shudder to mountain cold and the realization that something has changed overnight regarding our ‘team’. Clear air with a...
Jeff Fuchs
May 29, 20117 min read
Amne Machin White and A Travelling Circus
Our two yak stand still in the blowing white snow; around them there is nothing to suggest a specific time-period and looking at their...
Jeff Fuchs
May 26, 20116 min read
Amne Machin – A Rush of White and a Kora
Amye Maqen (Amne Machin, Anye Machin) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amne_Machin), the stout, the muscular, and for much of time, the...
Jeff Fuchs
May 22, 20115 min read
Departure under the white
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Jeff Fuchs
May 13, 20111 min read
The Jewel of the Heights
Jeff coddles some white gold At first it is a glimmer, nothing more than a reflection that I think might be there. Shimmering heat...
Jeff Fuchs
May 11, 20114 min read
Ghosts and ‘Ka’ (Snow)
We are hunting a ghost, ghosts in fact it seems. The Salt Route that hasn’t been documented, this Tsalam that I have dreamt about and...
Jeff Fuchs
May 11, 20115 min read
Further, Higher
We have moved further southwest near Da Re (Darlag), from Maqen towards the badland-borders with Sichuan province, less than one hundred...
Jeff Fuchs
May 7, 20115 min read
The Sun and Wind in Golok
Pilgrims at the Tashi Monastery Sun (neema in Tibetan) blasts into the day as we wake to a reckless blue sky and a wind that hums. Snow...
Jeff Fuchs
May 4, 20114 min read
Golok – The Journey To….
Before anything happens on our expedition, one has to actually get one’s body to the site– and this journey is often an adventure in...
Jeff Fuchs
May 2, 20113 min read
Abujee
A three hundred degree view taken within the protective walls of Abujee facing the valley that is both entrance and exit point for us....
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 9, 20115 min read
Shika Mountain – The Forgotten Guardian II
A storm moves into the valleys prefaced with ferocious winds Kilometres behind Shika landscapes become smudged white paintings – with a...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 8, 20112 min read
Blizzard in the Mountains above Shangri La
A blizzard ‘in waiting’ gains strength at 4,682 meters on the eastern extension of the Himalayas in northwestern Yunnan, China.
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 23, 20111 min read
Shika Mountain – The Forgotten Guardian I
“Know when to rise and when to retreat if you wish to see another sunrise” – Himalayan muleteer saying – There are mountains that quietly...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 23, 20113 min read
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