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Jeff Fuchs
Oct 29, 20131 min read
Tea Horse Road Portraits Appearing in China’s GoKunming
A series of portraits that I took along that immortal route and obsession of mine, The Tea Horse Road. The series is simply called ‘The...


Jeff Fuchs
Oct 25, 20131 min read
Mountain Eloquence
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Jeff Fuchs
Sep 15, 20134 min read
Asses, Water, and Footprints
‘That’ Wild Ass…. Wild Asses exist. One long muscular creature stands in front of the shimmering surface that marks the legendary Tso...


Jeff Fuchs
Aug 21, 20134 min read
Expedition Update: Faces of the Mountains – A Team Convenes
Manali Assembling a team that is about to enter into the mountains for a prolonged period of time is part art, part availability, part...


Jeff Fuchs
Aug 1, 20133 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
Jul 10, 20131 min read
Expedition Update – Award Winning ‘Kensington Tours’ generously sponsors our ̵
Our expedition has been enhanced with Kensington Tours’ enormous support of ‘The Route of Wind and Wool’. I’m now a contented ‘Explorer...


Jeff Fuchs
Jul 7, 20131 min read
Expedition Update – The North Face Sponsors our Journey
With less than a month to go before our “Route of Wind and Wool” commences, and with training and prepping continuing it is time to pay...


Jeff Fuchs
Jun 29, 20132 min read
Expedition Update “The Route of Wool and Wind”
Time is winding down on preparations for Michael and I to depart for Ladakh and the India Himalaya. Our month long exploration of one of...


Jeff Fuchs
May 10, 20131 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
Mar 16, 20138 min read
Ascent of Gold Pass
It is said amidst the Himalayas that it takes but a whiff of mountain air to know what is coming weather-wise. Neither Fred, Fik, nor I...


Jeff Fuchs
Dec 11, 20121 min read
Video Post Atop Sho’La Pass
A short clip of video shot atop the blustery Sho’La Pass here: http://youtu.be/oKGR8Xt0Lgw Yanpi, the wind, a huge sky and myself. Twenty...


Jeff Fuchs
Nov 12, 20129 min read
The Lost Route, Found – The Sacred Lakes in the Heights – Part ll
When a memory of a memory inevitably isn’t quite what one expected there is a kind of exasperation, a kind of disbelief that one cannot...


Jeff Fuchs
Sep 30, 20121 min read
A Sacred Lake and the Horseman
One of the heroes of my last journey, completed on September 26th in northwestern Yunnan. A face, a voice, and hands of stone to match,...


Jeff Fuchs
Aug 22, 20121 min read
UNESCO article on Nomadic Perspectives of Climate Change is up
“It is in the mountains that fate is decided” nomadic saying Delighted that a piece I’ve done on Tibetan nomadic perspectives on Climate...


Jeff Fuchs
Feb 2, 20121 min read
Kawa Karpo Expedition Updates
Our expedition has been generously joined by additional sponsorship and assistance from Canada’s Zoomermedia, travelling ‘off the beaten...


Jeff Fuchs
Jan 27, 20121 min read
Expedition February 2012 – Ancient Trade Route to Sacred Mountain
One of the sites our eyes will take in upon the trek Back to the comforting cold and silence of ‘Shangrila’ here in northwestern Yunnan...


Jeff Fuchs
Dec 16, 20117 min read
Ascend to End
Looking northwards where all things begin - the mountains Traders, pilgrims – travelers, who utilized their legs and lungs through the...


Jeff Fuchs
Nov 28, 20116 min read
An Ascent, An End
That which stuns, awes...looking at a wall within the Kawa Karpo range Skies, snow and peaks have replaced moss-laden trees and the mind...


Jeff Fuchs
Nov 24, 20116 min read
Slips and Stones…
Mornings can ease in or they bump in. I wake in Gebo and have somehow managed to roll not only off of my matt but make it a good three...


Jeff Fuchs
Nov 21, 20116 min read
Prostration and the Town of Thieves
Mountains and the worship of them are everywhere along the route Jana is one of those towns that looks to be embarrassed with itself,...
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