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Jeff Fuchs
Dec 8, 20187 min read
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
Nov 19, 20185 min read
Mustang Spaces 1 – The Khampa Route
Returns can soothe and returns to mountain spaces can do so with a powerful combination of elemental force and nostalgia for me. It...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 10, 20182 min read
Mustang, Leaves, and Kunga
Ladakh expedition plans changed last minute to Mustang. One stunning Himalayan world for another…and one historically linked to another...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 7, 20187 min read
Puerh and its Other Worlds – Still There
Puerh – The Forest Journeying back into Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna for a later than usual annual immersion into Puerh sourcing, learning and...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 1, 20184 min read
In from the Outpost – Peru Tributes
What reassuringly startles the mind – while settling the heart – at times is the sheer symmetry of landscapes and spaces, and the...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 29, 20182 min read
Qhapaq Nan – The ‘other’ Great Route Through the Sky
Departures by plane seem to suck some of the magic out of tangible travel but they do usher in other spaces and ways of life in a rush...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 19, 20181 min read
Our “The Tea Explorer” doc film wins Silver World Award
Chuffed that our recent documentary “The Tea Explorer” just won a Silver World Award at this year’s 2018 New York Festivals International...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 2, 20181 min read
Himalayan Pashmina – The Journeys That Wool Took
Outpost Magazine just revisited a story I wrote about a series of trade routes that brought Pashmina wool from high in the Himalayas down...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 27, 20181 min read
Canadian Geographic Interview – A Revisit with the Tea Horse Road
Rolling back some years with Canadian Geographic to a time when the leaf and the Tea Horse Road came full force into my blood stream. One...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 11, 20181 min read
The Tea Explorer – Screening at Toronto Tea Festival
The Toronto Tea Festival will be hosting director Andrew Gregg and I for a special screening of our ‘Tea Explorer’ film at the upcoming...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 30, 20174 min read
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
Dec 1, 20178 min read
Puerh’s Ancient Cylinder – 竹面 – Zhú tǒng
A local with a freshly unveiled ‘tong’ coming out of its bamboo home. The round cylinder of compressed Puerh, known in southern Yunnan to...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 9, 20172 min read
Our Tea Explorer at Hawaii’s International Film Festival
Tea-Fuelled fun on the tea stained carpets And so our Tea Explorer documentary of mountains, memories and leaves opened at the Hawaiian...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 17, 20172 min read
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
Sep 9, 20172 min read
Tea Explorer Extended Run – On CBC’s Doc Channel
We’re delighted to announce that our documentary film The Tea Explorer film is getting an additional airing on Sunday Sept, 10th at 9 pm...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 12, 20175 min read
Moments with an Aging Classic – Bada at 10 years
“Forget about worrying about age. Forget it! If a tea isn’t made well, it isn’t going to become better. It is just going to age”....
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 25, 20171 min read
Our ‘The Tea Explorer’ Doc Film Gets Some Blushing Reviews
After much time, edits, permits, scoring the music and still more editing down from the team at 90th Parallel Productions, our first...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 12, 20172 min read
The Tea Explorer – Our Tea Documentary on CBC’s Doc Channel
Finally, our Tea Horse Road inspired film doc, The Tea Explorer has a first ever air-date on television on CBC’s Doc Channel on July...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 5, 20174 min read
Mustang – Part 2 – Route of Khampas
“A land of little and a route of much” is how I often view this present journey and it is how I’ve viewed many of Himalayan trade routes...
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...
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