Jeff Fuchs

Jeff Fuchs, sipping tea
just minutes after completing the circumambulation of Amne Machin
photo by Nupgong6, May 17, 2011
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explorer, mountaineer and author, preoccupied by the relationship between mountains and indigenous cultures, the first westerner who made the entire Ancient Tea Horse Road. His book, The Ancient Tea Horse Road: Travels with the Last of the Himalayan Muleteers (2008), documents his endeavors across the Himalayas, covering six thousand kilometers and a dozen cultures.

• Delamu (The Tea Horse Road)

(A Life in Books)