Feature Article in Outpost Magazine – Tsa’lam – The nomadic route of salt.

To the entire creative team at Outpost Magazine, Canada’s award-winning adventure travel magazine who helped turn the Tsa’lam feature...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 2, 20112 min read

Yaks, Creases and Nomads

The calm force that is Songjem The man we pick up in Nyimalung has the calm eyes and weathered face that the mountains create and sculpt...

Jeff Fuchs

Aug 1, 20114 min read

Jeff’s article in the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) on the Salt Road Expedition

Click here for the article. For access to the full feature article you must sign up (free for the first two weeks). Enjoy with a cup of...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 3, 20111 min read

The Fight and the Turn Right – Amne Machin

So often it is the elders who remember tales through their time spent recounting orally the comings and goings of the past. Here Amne...

Jeff Fuchs

May 31, 20116 min read

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 – 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 23, 20115 min read

Departure under the white

#HimalayanSaltRoute #Nomad #HimalayanTrade #ancientsaltroad #Nomads #Qinghai #Amdo #sacredmountains #Golok #Himalayansalt...

Jeff Fuchs

May 13, 20111 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 3, 20113 min read

Preparations…and Expectations of the Salt Road Expedition

Mountain Warmth Time is always the great and constant editor and time winds down to the actual departure date of the Salt Road (Tsalam)...

Jeff Fuchs

Apr 29, 20112 min read