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...
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Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 17, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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
- 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 8, 2018
- 7 min
Mustang Spaces 2 – The Cup, The Mountains
The Tibetan term ‘gtum mo’, pronounced “Tummo” refers to the tantric tradition of meditation that summons or produces heat and a kind of...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 30, 2017
- 4 min
Tea, Mountains and The Close of a Year. Tributes and Moments
‘The Rice Eater’. A particularly strategic rice coveting monkey in Kathmandu who provided a spectacle lasting for 20 minutes. A new year...
Jeff Fuchs
- Sep 17, 2017
- 2 min
Feature Article: The Great Gangotri – Feeder of the Ganges
Gongotri Glacier – Great Feeder of the River Ganges One of the great moving river bodies of the planet, the mother Ganges, is fed by the...
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
- Oct 21, 2016
- 3 min
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update l
First steps towards Gangotri Glacier involve words from an impeccable source. For six decades Swami Sunderland has climbed, wandered, and...
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 15, 2015
- 6 min
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
- 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
- Mar 10, 2015
- 1 min
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...
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