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,...

Jeff Fuchs

Nov 19, 20192 min read

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...

Jeff Fuchs

Apr 29, 20193 min read

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...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 22, 20185 min read

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...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 8, 20187 min read

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...

Jeff Fuchs

Nov 19, 20185 min read

Mustang, Leaves, and Kunga

Ladakh expedition plans changed last minute to Mustang. One stunning Himalayan world for another…and one historically linked to another...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 10, 20182 min read

Qhapaq Nan – The ‘other’ Great Route Through the Sky

Departures by plane seem to suck some of the magic out of tangible travel but they do usher in other spaces and ways of life in a rush...

Jeff Fuchs

Apr 29, 20182 min read

Feature Article: The Great Gangotri – Feeder of the Ganges

Gongotri Glacier – Great Feeder of the River Ganges One of the great moving river bodies of the planet, the mother Ganges, is fed by the...

Jeff Fuchs

Sep 17, 20172 min read

Mustang – Part 2 – Route of Khampas

“A land of little and a route of much” is how I often view this present journey and it is how I’ve viewed many of Himalayan trade routes...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 5, 20174 min read

Mustang’s Eastern Trade Route

Trade routes (still) offer up hints and teasers about how lands evolved and functioned. Everything from DNA to luxuries and tid-bits from...

Jeff Fuchs

Jun 16, 20174 min read

Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update V – A Descent

Berinder is impatient and staring in his mournful way at Saurabh and I to hurry. He wants to move and it is our day to make another...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 31, 20169 min read

Glacier’s Breath Expedition – Gangotri Update 2

Berinder, with pink wooly marvellously intact. Berinder is his name. Tiny, unsmiling, and topped off with a vibrant pink woolen cap I’ve...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 27, 20163 min read

Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update l

First steps towards Gangotri Glacier involve words from an impeccable source. For six decades Swami Sunderland has climbed, wandered, and...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 21, 20163 min read

Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 5

Owing to Hector the Brave’s popularity and the debt to which our ‘Glacier’s Breath’ Expedition owes his efforts, a video in honour of our...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 29, 20151 min read

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 6, 20152 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

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 7, 20139 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

Aug 1, 20133 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 10, 20131 min read