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Jeff Fuchs
Sep 3, 20202 min read
Intuition, Water, and Tales from a Boy
Thinking about times past, lessons, and inspired moments and a little sun burned cheeks, few words, and a fearless countenance comes to...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 19, 20192 min read
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
Jun 16, 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
Feb 28, 20161 min read
Nomad’s Fine Food – Air-Dried Yak
Tibetan styled air drying. Slabs of yak meat hang in a nomad’s tent letting 4500-metre air and wind dry one of the vital protein sources...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 26, 20161 min read
Speaking About the Ancient Tea Horse Road
Great pleasure reminiscing and chatting about the Tea Horse Road on Talk Travel Asia with Scott Coates and Trevor Ranges. Thoughts of...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 5, 20164 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 7
More of the precious from 2015. A final Ascent…An End and the New Beginnings A morning snow, A Lao Banzhang Leaf, A Mountain Steward, A...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 19, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 2
A continuing of the epic characters, moments, and spaces of the past years in no particular order along with the requisite captions. To...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 16, 20152 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains
Decided that there must be some way to pay some tribute to the faces, spaces, and leaves that have inspired either by wonderful force, or...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 15, 20156 min read
Glacier Melt – Nomad Streams
The long ridgeline of sediment and stone from a glacier has made a wall beside our trail. Known as an esker it is a thing of power and...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 9, 20141 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
Dec 1, 20131 min read
Himalayas Change – A Nomad’s Words About Mountains
A’bing of Ganzi at 4,700 meters in a tent speaking of life in the heights. “Winter no longer knows when it wants to come. It no longer...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 24, 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 14, 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 9, 20134 min read
Expedition Final: An End With Warmth
Chura or drying yak cheese curds under the sun. High in protein content these ‘pellets’ are often added to butter tea. It is northwards...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 8, 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
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
Sep 1, 20121 min read
Salt Road Talk at Shanghai’s Capital M
Speaking on September 6th at ‘M on the Bund’ in Shanghai about another of Asia’s timeless commodities, ‘salt’ and our first (and the...
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
Jul 3, 20121 min read
Nomads, Their Lands and a ‘way’ that slowly disappears
A land away, and its people Participating in a photo competition where the subjects are my beloved nomadic landscapes and the spirits and...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 17, 20115 min read
A Devil’s River of Heat
Another of the faces that stay with me. A nomadic pilgrim, having just dunked her head in a stream wipes the remnants off. Toughness in...
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