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

Sep 30, 20125 min read

Doctor ‘Mountain’ and the Temple – Part ll of ll

An endearing and parting shot of the Doctor With the doctor behind me, but very much still in the mind, I head north towards this “little...

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,...

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...

Jeff Fuchs

Nov 9, 20116 min read

A Rock and The Pass

The first night of sleep is under an enormous rock which overhangs our informal outdoor space. A huge sacred rock covered in money,...

Jeff Fuchs

Nov 6, 20111 min read

Returned from Kawa Karpo Kora

Snow, pilgrims with tireless feet, endless spirit and mountains that one bows to every day…and the odd cup of tea. Posts of the journey...

Jeff Fuchs

May 31, 20116 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 29, 20117 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 27, 20116 min read

Amne Machin White and A Travelling Circus

Our two yak stand still in the blowing white snow; around them there is nothing to suggest a specific time-period and looking at their...

Jeff Fuchs

May 23, 20115 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...