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Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update V – A Descent
Berinder is impatient and staring in his mournful way at Saurabh and I to hurry. He wants to move and it is our day to make another...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 31, 20169 min read
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update lV – Nandanvan (Paradise)
“These silences are good for the whole body”, says Saurabh and it has been, though it marks a great contrast to our team’s scurrying...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 17, 20166 min read
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Ganges Gangotri Update 3
The line is uneven. Random dark and bright spots lie along a long diagonal path that at times is nothing but some smudges in the sand....
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 8, 20164 min read
Glacier’s Breath Expedition – Gangotri Update 2
Berinder, with pink wooly marvellously intact. Berinder is his name. Tiny, unsmiling, and topped off with a vibrant pink woolen cap I’ve...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 26, 20163 min read
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update l
First steps towards Gangotri Glacier involve words from an impeccable source. For six decades Swami Sunderland has climbed, wandered, and...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 21, 20163 min read
Glaciers’ Breath ll Update – Ice, Ganges, and Shiva
Our departure nears from here in Hong Kong’s heat to India’s northern Himalaya range and the ascent to Gangotri glacier. From the heavens...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 14, 20164 min read
The Glaciers’ Breath ll Expedition – The Ganges’ Source
Preparation Notes…and Tea Stirring through some cakes and balls of tea deciding on the leaves to take on this upcoming venture to the...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 29, 20163 min read
Puerh – The ‘Sort’
Tea ends up in nuggets and in twisted desiccated things of tangy beauty. Cakes and compressed forms line shelves and delicate curled buds...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 13, 20162 min read
World Explorers Summit – Cardiff Wales, Exploration and its vital people and tales
World Explorers Summit in Cardiff Wales Will be speaking at the World Explorers Summit in September…with tea at the ready. Great line up...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 14, 20161 min read
Tea Journey Begins
Tea Journey Magazine is now up and running on Kickstarter for the next 60 days. A great initiative for one of the fastest growing...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 4, 20161 min read
Tea’s Last Guardians – The Himalayan Muleteers and the Tea Horse Road
Joining the storied Royal Geographical Society here in London as they host my upcoming talks: Tea’s Last Guardians – The Himalayan...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 20, 20161 min read
Nomad’s Fine Food – Air-Dried Yak
Tibetan styled air drying. Slabs of yak meat hang in a nomad’s tent letting 4500-metre air and wind dry one of the vital protein sources...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 28, 20161 min read
Speaking About the Ancient Tea Horse Road
Great pleasure reminiscing and chatting about the Tea Horse Road on Talk Travel Asia with Scott Coates and Trevor Ranges. Thoughts of...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 25, 20161 min read
Toronto Tea Festival – Speaking About (and Sipping) Puerh
Delighted to be speaking and slurping away at this year’s annual Toronto Tea Festival on behalf of our own JalamTeas. A fierce tea...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 22, 20161 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 7
More of the precious from 2015. A final Ascent…An End and the New Beginnings A morning snow, A Lao Banzhang Leaf, A Mountain Steward, A...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 5, 20164 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 6
Magnificent Raju, an old friend, and landscapes that are tortured and utterly narcotic. The Mountains’ and their people and spaces that...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 30, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 5
Owing to Hector the Brave’s popularity and the debt to which our ‘Glacier’s Breath’ Expedition owes his efforts, a video in honour of our...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 29, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 4
Continued Tributes: A Father After feeding us in his home, this Tibetan man went over to his son who was our guide, and briefly touched...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 29, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 2
A continuing of the epic characters, moments, and spaces of the past years in no particular order along with the requisite captions. To...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 19, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains
Decided that there must be some way to pay some tribute to the faces, spaces, and leaves that have inspired either by wonderful force, or...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 15, 20152 min read
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