Jeff FuchsSep 4, 20211 minOmu, The StrongArriving to a new camp and homestead, Omu sets about going through an unending list of ‘musts’. One of the musts is securing tent ‘fly’...
Jeff FuchsAug 17, 20211 minDolma, The TitanOver 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...
Jeff FuchsAug 3, 20211 minLeaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the HeightsIt was upon the months' long journeys along the Tea Horse Road that the big-leafed 'assamica' material and eternal panacea, tea, would...
Jeff FuchsApr 2, 20211 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - Departure and the CherubThe final destination along the Tea Horse Road, both for our own expedition and for the great journeys of the past, was Kalimpong, in...
Jeff FuchsMar 9, 20212 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part HumanOver 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...
Jeff FuchsFeb 27, 20211 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and BloodlinesOn foot our team of four puttered and wandered west (often faintly lost) through the Nyanqen Tanghla mountains in Tibet towards Lhasa....
Jeff FuchsFeb 21, 20211 minTea Horse Chronicles - The BendIt was here at the ‘first bend of the Yangtze’, at Shigu, in Yunnan province that the Mongolian armies of the Yuan Dynasty crossed the...
Jeff FuchsFeb 19, 20211 minThe Tea Horse Road Chronicles - RemnantsWithin 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...
Jeff FuchsFeb 16, 20212 minThe Tea Sessions - A new column with Outpost MagazineGiven the span of time and efforts to immerse in leaves and the lives connected to tea, there aren’t many more satisfying additions than...
Jeff FuchsFeb 9, 20211 minTea 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...
Jeff FuchsFeb 3, 20211 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - Empress of ClothPonzera, or Benzilan as it is now known, is a small valley town in northwestern Yunnan that lies alongside a headwater stream of the...
Jeff FuchsJan 26, 20211 minTea 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...
Jeff FuchsJan 14, 20211 minTea 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...
Jeff FuchsJan 2, 20211 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of WomenNomadic 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...
Jeff FuchsDec 29, 20201 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - The CrossingPoignant 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...
Jeff FuchsDec 28, 20201 minTea 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 FuchsDec 21, 20201 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - LhakpaAlways, it seems that it was the mountain mornings and its still clear cold that would offer up moments and characters along our journey....
Jeff FuchsDec 15, 20201 minTea 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 FuchsDec 11, 20201 minTea 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 FuchsDec 6, 20201 minTea Horse Road Chronicles Part 2 - Coming SnowNomads 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...