Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Crossing
Poignant in this years' end and the arrival of a new time and space. A last vestige of travel across the glacier-fed waterways of the...
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Jeff Fuchs
Dec 28, 20201 min
Tea Horse Chronicles - 'The Dorjè'
Immersed in a hotspring that is tucked within a mountain cave, sitting beside the venerable and irrepressible Dorjè Kandro. Just days...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 27, 20201 min
Tea Horse Chronicles - The Fry
Dakpa and I had been rolling around tea forests, tea houses, and tea characters for months at this point along portions and strands of...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 24, 20201 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - He Said, She Knew
This ‘moment’ was more accurately a series of moments and most of an afternoon, with an old muleteer and his wife. We interviewed the...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 23, 20201 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tenzin
Legend, guardian of caravans, and hunter of ‘tea thieves’, Tenzin. We had heard of this legend but worried we wouldn’t track him down...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 21, 20201 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Lhakpa
Always, it seems that it was the mountain mornings and its still clear cold that would offer up moments and characters along our journey....
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 15, 20201 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Shar Gong La (The Eastern Gate Pass)
Upon the Tea Horse Road’s pathways (and there were many), traders, pilgrims, and muleteers alike would refer to the ‘middle route’ as...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 11, 20201 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles, Part 5 - The Load (Gyap'kè)
A continuation of some of the embedded moments - both large and small - of our 7.5 month expedition to chart and document the Tea Horse...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 8, 20202 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles, Part 4, The Ebb
Tea Horse Road Chronicles Part 4. Continuing with an homage and tribute to spaces, moments, and sparks in the memory palace of time spent...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 6, 20201 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles Part 2 - Coming Snow
Nomads tuck into wools as a snow storm begins to usher in a new sky and new snow-filled gusts near Litang, in western Sichuan. The...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 1, 20202 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part 1
The coming weeks' posts will delve back into the memory palace of moments from our 7.5 month expedition along the Tea Horse Road, to...
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