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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
Oct 7, 20154 min read


The Glacier’s Breath – Bara Shigri
Biari lights up after a tea So much of what is good and cherished in my days is both deliberately tea related and in some wonderful cases...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 5, 20157 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


A Little More Winter
Winter in the Himalayas “Often leaves in small stages…but sometimes it simply leaves one night” says Kersang from her village near Deqin...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 19, 20153 min read


Mountains and Their Precious Rivers
Returning to northwestern Yunnan’s snow-clad mountains and their precious waterways. We’ll wander up the Salween River (pronounced Gyalmo...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 10, 20151 min read


The Ancient Tea Horse Road – Now in Portuguese
As an old trader along the Ancient Tea Horse Road once remarked to our team as we traveled through his village, “You all are lucky...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 21, 20151 min read


Tea Horse Road – words from Drolma
Elder Drolma from Dzogong speaks and reminisces about the days of the Tea Horse Road linking her home in eastern Tibet with Lhasa and...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 14, 20151 min read


Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs
Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs Condè Nast Traveller introduces my latest tea-fueled exercises in the green leaf here. A...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 24, 20141 min read


Snow Curtains in Tibet
Winter has set in marking the end of my own season within the Himalayas and Tibet. It is time for the grand silences and deep cold –...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 22, 20143 min read


Interview with a legend of the Himalayas: Sadanand the Mountain Man
That wonderful renegade man of the mountains, Sadanand, who was such a dynamic horseman on our most recent expedition (and unknowingly...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 15, 20141 min read
Award-Winning Writer Mariellen Ward Got Curious about an explorer, and then Interviewed Me
Always nice when someone is asking questions and allows responses which are laden with tangents (which I’ve been known to do). Mariellen...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 14, 20141 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


Tea Horse Road and the Women’s Touch
As a New Year came in I thought back to those whose ‘new’ year’s have not yet come. I thought back to three generations of women who...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 9, 20141 min read


Two Worlds – The Himalayas and the South Pacific – and Global Warming
So much of the time I’ve had here with the East West Center in Honolulu as an invited speaker has been time spent showing, seeing, and...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 15, 20131 min read


Himalayas’ Words – The Wolf aka, ‘The Old Master’
“Wolves are what we (nomads) fear most. They know us well and though I fear them, they are important for the land. They know how to wait...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 24, 20131 min read


Interview with Wild China about Trade Routes
The Enduring Obsession and Importance of the Himalayan Trade Routes here #TeaHorseRoad #TeaHorseTrails #Himalayantravel #Chinatravel...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 15, 20131 min read


The Himalayas’ Guardian of the Pass
The face of Lhamo, 23, of Ala Dhotok (Stone Roof) at over 5,000 metres in Eastern Tibet. Her ‘community’ deep within the folds of the...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 14, 20131 min read


Mountain Eyes
One of the immortal faces of the mountains…even though only four-years old. A nomadic girl, whose predecessors were a clan of ‘guardians’...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 8, 20131 min read


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...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 6, 20135 min read


Immortal Words of the Mountains
Another in the series of ‘mountain immortals’ and their equally timeless words. Neema, at 89 years old, says of his days upon the...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 2, 20131 min read
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