Perceptions are everything and here there is so very much within sensing distance. Syabrubesi is a dusty gateway that lies behind us. We head west through green tree lines of pine, birch, and rhododendron and nettles. The Buddhist sage and one of most provocative characters in Himalayan lore, Milarepa, is said to have gone entirely green during his meditations on a diet exclusively made up of nettles. That brilliant Tibetan yogi known for achieving an enlightened state in one

One of the most impactful concepts and terms last year was the word ‘Ayni’. Used in the Andean world by many of its peoples, it was a concept embraced by the Inca people. That city of so much ‘zing’, history, and altitude, Cusco – and our base of operations while we were in Peru Link here for Teasers One of the elders in Chawaytiri who still spins wool and remembers the vitality of collaboration with the natural elements During our journey to Peru our entire film team became

Chuffed that our recent documentary “The Tea Explorer” just won a Silver World Award at this year’s 2018 New York Festivals International TV and Film awards in the History and Society category. Interviewing a Tibetan tea trader who’s passions of the Tea Horse Road delighted as his memories became clearer. Part of our task of The Tea Explorer was to pay tribute to memories of the route that had seldom been written down. Some gratitude to Canada’s own national broadcaster CBC’s

The Toronto Tea Festival will be hosting director Andrew Gregg and I for a special screening of our ‘Tea Explorer’ film at the upcoming Toronto Tea Festival on Friday February 2nd. One of the makers of an extraordinary tea in the Himalayas…at a small truck stop in Himachal Pradesh. One cannot have tea, without the people. Tea, Mountains, and some gabbing about life and the people along the one of the most magnificent and underrated Himalayan trails. The Tea Explorer is a jour

After much time, edits, permits, scoring the music and still more editing down from the team at 90th Parallel Productions, our first airing of The Tea Explorer took place on July 23rd. The first reviews are in. Film critic John Doyle from the Globe and Mail  called ‘The Tea Explorer” “Visually sumptuous”. and “The program, made by Andrew Gregg, is an enchantingly successful hybrid of adventure tale and extravagant celebration of tea and you will never be blasé about tea again

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 23rd, 2017 at 9pm ET. The link above will give a teaser of some of the people, leaves, and landscapes that are inseparable from this epic route through the sky. It is a story of Mountains, a green leaf, and the memories with some random obsessive bits from myself to fill in some of the spaces. Shar Gong La, or Eastern Gate Pass along the Tea Hor