The Tea Explorer – Documentary Film
Movie Trailer here: The Tea Explorer The last month and a bit have been spent contentedly and sometimes manically slurping back tea,...
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Jeff Fuchs
- Oct 15, 2015
- 6 min
Glacier Melt – Nomad Streams
The long ridgeline of sediment and stone from a glacier has made a wall beside our trail. Known as an esker it is a thing of power and...
Jeff Fuchs
- Oct 7, 2015
- 4 min
The Glacier’s Breath – Amid the Temples of Ice
Debra Tan’s lungs and ligaments are strained still but she is learning the mountain way: ‘dirè dirè’ (slowly slowly) and all will pass....
Jeff Fuchs
- Oct 5, 2015
- 7 min
The Glacier’s Breath – Bara Shigri
Biari lights up after a tea So much of what is good and cherished in my days is both deliberately tea related and in some wonderful cases...
Jeff Fuchs
- Sep 6, 2015
- 2 min
Expedition – The Glacier’s Breath
Glacier water sluices down near the Changtang region of the Himalayas Preparing to head back into the precious Himalayas of Ladakh for a...
Jeff Fuchs
- May 24, 2015
- 9 min
Wuyishan Oolongs – Rock Teas and Red Robes
Hangzhou’s immensity is somewhere north of us as we move south and then east speeding through dark fields and villages. We are zipping on...
Jeff Fuchs
- May 12, 2015
- 6 min
Green Tea – Long Jing’s Three Roasts and One Roaster
Amidst the green of the little tea garden in front of me I realize that it lacks some of what I love of further west. Here in Hangzhou’s...
Jeff Fuchs
- Apr 19, 2015
- 3 min
A Little More Winter
Winter in the Himalayas “Often leaves in small stages…but sometimes it simply leaves one night” says Kersang from her village near Deqin...
Jeff Fuchs
- Mar 10, 2015
- 1 min
Mountains and Their Precious Rivers
Returning to northwestern Yunnan’s snow-clad mountains and their precious waterways. We’ll wander up the Salween River (pronounced Gyalmo...
Jeff Fuchs
- Feb 24, 2015
- 8 min
A Brilliant Bit of Puerh Sampled…at Last
Almost ten years ago a particular Ban Zhang Puerh came gently into my life while sitting, ironically, in another tea town kilometres...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 21, 2015
- 1 min
The Ancient Tea Horse Road – Now in Portuguese
As an old trader along the Ancient Tea Horse Road once remarked to our team as we traveled through his village, “You all are lucky...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 14, 2015
- 1 min
Tea Horse Road – words from Drolma
Elder Drolma from Dzogong speaks and reminisces about the days of the Tea Horse Road linking her home in eastern Tibet with Lhasa and...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 24, 2014
- 1 min
Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs
Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs Condè Nast Traveller introduces my latest tea-fueled exercises in the green leaf here. A...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 22, 2014
- 3 min
Snow Curtains in Tibet
Winter has set in marking the end of my own season within the Himalayas and Tibet. It is time for the grand silences and deep cold –...
Jeff Fuchs
- Sep 30, 2014
- 1 min
Our Expedition Ladakh gets Cover Feature in Outpost Magazine
Delighted to make the cover-feature (top-less no less) of Canada’s award-winning Outpost Magazine in the current edition. Our journey...
Jeff Fuchs
- Sep 29, 2014
- 1 min
Tea-Infused Journey to the Sources of the Leaf – Beginning next March
Much sipping, waiting, travelling, and finally contentment, has been put into creating a tea tour with Wild China where we will sip of...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jun 27, 2014
- 1 min
Tea Horse Road – The Faces
Yeshi during an interview in Pomda, in western Sichuan Province Beyond simply the daunting snow passes, eccentric bandits, and...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jun 24, 2014
- 2 min
The Tea Horse Road Expedition – 8 Years’ On…
Eight years ago this month, a team of mountain men that were in part desperate, utterly tough, and not entirely sure of what was to come,...
Jeff Fuchs
- Mar 17, 2014
- 1 min
Photo Essay Feature in Action Asia Adventure Magazine: The Tea Horse Road, Nomadic Route of Salt, an
Photo-Essay feature of mine out in Hong Kong’s Action Asia this week. Images and tales of the precious Himalayan ‘routes through the...
Jeff Fuchs
- Mar 15, 2014
- 1 min
Interview with a legend of the Himalayas: Sadanand the Mountain Man
That wonderful renegade man of the mountains, Sadanand, who was such a dynamic horseman on our most recent expedition (and unknowingly...
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