Jeff Fuchs – In From The Outpost

Posted September 5, 2019

In From the Outpost PERU/Episode1: The Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu

In Peru, Jeff Fuchs led Team Outpost along one of the world’s great footpaths, the Salkantay Trek in the Andes Mountains, then to the community of Chawaytiri and Q’eswachaka, finally across the [...]

By Jeff Fuchs

In STORIES

Posted January 24, 2019

The Chawaytiri Weavers of Peru’s Sacred Valley (In The Land of Ayni: Part 2)

Explorer Jeff Fuchs heads to the community of Chawaytiri — the “village of the llama” — where weaving is not just tradition but artform. Story by Jeff Fuchs, Photos by Outpost Colours shimmy in [...]

By Jeff Fuchs

In STORIES

Posted January 7, 2019

In The Land of Ayni (Part 1): The Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu

There’s a Quechua word that embraces a theme Jeff Fuchs has come to learn firsthand: when in the mountains, it’s cooperate or perish. In Peru, in the Sacred Valley of the Andes, they call this [...]

By Jeff Fuchs

In STORIES

Posted October 15, 2018

That Ayni Thing: Where Reciprocity is Just a Way of Life

There are some words and concepts that should be shelved and forgotten. Then there are some of eternal value which deserve to rest in a kind of immortal docking zone. “Ayni” is one of them. Story [...]

By Jeff Fuchs

In STORIES

Posted June 20, 2018

Setting Out to Seek Out the Storykeepers: by Jeff Fuchs

As he explores Andean Peru and the story of the Great Inca Road, explorer and Outpost team leader Jeff Fuchs reflects on how geography can shape a human destiny. Departures (and arrivals) by [...]