Jeff Fuchs reminds one of Mick Jagger! (whom I once saw at Asia Society benefit in Manhattan) Fuchs was a mountain climber since his childhood in Switzerland and Canada. He is American. He is not keen on UNESCO developing Silk Road as site of heritage; it will be a "Disneyland"... He is most excited about finding DNA in the people he meets: he shows one woman and later a man, both of whom have Persian DNA. His two tour guides, Tibetans, were at nife point the whole trip, about who was dominant. He shows peak where "they couldn't come back but they did" of which he is proud. He interviewed elders who died after their interviews..in the coming months. He thinks it is important to preserve this oral history. Penguin Viking gave him an advance which set him out on his path. Did part of trip without GPS, which got them lost... He interviewed very old woman who waited 60 years for a man who did not return. Woman's fate.
Fuchs is originally Hungarian; he read the maygar's history...when on the trail. I asked him if he knew Tea Road by Martha, and yes, he does.
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