Langtang 3 – Top To Bottom and an Avalanche
Sonam moves up singing, chatting, all the while moving through his Tibetan Mala beads. Mingmar dances from stone outcroppings to thatches...
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Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 5, 2020
- 6 min
Langtang 2 – Across What Was
Langtang, the land called “Ox’s land” is grassland valley and ‘was’ a village…one that has been destroyed, reset eastward and rebuilt (if...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 16, 2019
- 4 min
Langtang – Himalayan Water Towers…and herbs
Perceptions are everything and here there is so very much within sensing distance. Syabrubesi is a dusty gateway that lies behind us. We...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jun 29, 2019
- 4 min
Spring 2019 – Part 2 – Solukhumbu – The Spires and The Everest Three Passes Trek
The second part of our journey took us from the high arid zones of Mustang right into the rumbling, high spires of Solukhumbu. The lands...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 14, 2019
- 7 min
Mustang Spaces 4 – Lo Gekar and Kunga
Abu is chatty. Not prone to overly long sessions of speaking, Abu, when he is talking, usually has something to expel and it is always a...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 31, 2016
- 9 min
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
- Oct 27, 2016
- 3 min
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
- Sep 15, 2016
- 4 min
Glaciers’ Breath ll Update – Ice, Ganges, and Shiva
Our departure nears from here in Hong Kong’s heat to India’s northern Himalaya range and the ascent to Gangotri glacier. From the heavens...
Jeff Fuchs
- Aug 29, 2016
- 3 min
The Glaciers’ Breath ll Expedition – The Ganges’ Source
Preparation Notes…and Tea Stirring through some cakes and balls of tea deciding on the leaves to take on this upcoming venture to the...
Jeff Fuchs
- Oct 7, 2015
- 4 min
The Glacier’s Breath – Amid the Temples of Ice
Debra Tan’s lungs and ligaments are strained still but she is learning the mountain way: ‘dirè dirè’ (slowly slowly) and all will pass....
Jeff Fuchs
- Sep 6, 2015
- 2 min
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 30, 2014
- 1 min
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
- Nov 6, 2013
- 5 min
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...
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