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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
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
Pu erh Tea and its Precious Pickers
There is much made of a tea’s geographic designation, its altitude, its harvest season, and its growers…and there should be! The earth,...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 12, 20163 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
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,...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 12, 20152 min read
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 15, 20156 min read
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 6, 20154 min read
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
Oct 5, 20157 min read
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