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    Omu, The Strong
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Sep 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Omu, The Strong

    Arriving to a new camp and homestead, Omu sets about going through an unending list of ‘musts’. One of the musts is securing tent ‘fly’...
    Dolma, The Titan
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Aug 17, 2021
    • 1 min

    Dolma, The Titan

    Over the course of a decade of repeated visits to a nomadic community and little Dolma’s clan near Litang, I would continuously be in awe...
    Leaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the Heights
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Aug 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Leaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the Heights

    It was upon the months' long journeys along the Tea Horse Road that the big-leafed 'assamica' material and eternal panacea, tea, would...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Departure and the Cherub
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Apr 2, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Departure and the Cherub

    The final destination along the Tea Horse Road, both for our own expedition and for the great journeys of the past, was Kalimpong, in...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human

    Over the course of years since meeting Dorjè I’ve written and pondered much about him. “Part goat and a little part human” was how he was...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and Bloodlines
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and Bloodlines

    On foot our team of four puttered and wandered west (often faintly lost) through the Nyanqen Tanghla mountains in Tibet towards Lhasa....
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend

    It was here at the ‘first bend of the Yangtze’, at Shigu, in Yunnan province that the Mongolian armies of the Yuan Dynasty crossed the...
    The Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Remnants
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 19, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Remnants

    Within the tidy remnants of a former ‘Tea and Horse Trade Office’ in Mingshan County, near Ya’an in Sichuan, Jamyan and I wandered for 25...
    The Tea Sessions - A new column with Outpost Magazine
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Tea Sessions - A new column with Outpost Magazine

    Given the span of time and efforts to immerse in leaves and the lives connected to tea, there aren’t many more satisfying additions than...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Fields vs Forests
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Fields vs Forests

    Blankets and ridges of green stimulant leaf lie in rows near Puerh. Here the leaf is entirely industry. Gorgeous industry, but still...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Empress of Cloth
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Empress of Cloth

    Ponzera, or Benzilan as it is now known, is a small valley town in northwestern Yunnan that lies alongside a headwater stream of the...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - There Are No Straight Lines Through the Mountains
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - There Are No Straight Lines Through the Mountains

    Not heeding the warnings of Sonam Gelek; I should have known better at this stage of our journey than to plunge onwards without his...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Tea's Value
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Tea's Value

    “Tea is our everything. I don’t know where it comes from but we take it every day in the morning, afternoon, and night. Our children...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of Women
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 2, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of Women

    Nomadic women of Ganze gather on a grassland to take part in a horse festival. It was through and over such high grasslands that the Tea...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Crossing
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - 'The Dorjè'
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 1 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...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Lhakpa
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 1 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....
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Shar Gong La (The Eastern Gate Pass)
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 15, 2020
    • 1 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...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles, Part 5 - The Load (Gyap'kè)
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 11, 2020
    • 1 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...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles Part 2 - Coming Snow
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 6, 2020
    • 1 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...
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