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’...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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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