Tsetan - Tea Horse Road Trader
We sat in the dark gloom of his home, with a bit of lukewarm butter tea roaming around our hands. Another of the remaining legends of the...
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Jeff Fuchs
- Aug 14, 2022
- 2 min
Tseba, his Tea, and the Walk(s)
One of the most purpose-driven of walkers, Tseba, would prepare a kettle of butter tea every morning before leaving to circumambulate...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jun 30, 2021
- 1 min
Pomo - The Girl Who Could Do it All
'Cheshi' in the early morning in her family’s nomadic camp of Shin’zhu’gong at close to 5000 metres. I continually messed up her name,...
Jeff Fuchs
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A lusty bit of Leaf Tribute
One of the most exquisite pieces of tea porn I’ve come ever across was this compressed mass of large leaf material, formed into seven...
Jeff Fuchs
- Apr 20, 2021
- 1 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - He Was Late
The horseman assured Sonam and our team that he would appear at 7am sharp the next morning. He promised over several cups of tea, and...
Jeff Fuchs
- Apr 10, 2021
- 1 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Walks and Words
“When you walk through mountains, you appreciate any arrival. When you walk to a place, you can speak about a place”. An interview about...
Jeff Fuchs
- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never Came
A simple tea room in Weishan, Yunnan, and one of the only tea rooms in my life that I failed to actually have tea in. Weishan was another...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 5, 2021
- 1 min
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Jokhang Boys
After 52 days of trekking from my then home in Zhongdian (aka: Shangrila/Jiantang/Gyalthang) in northwestern Yunnan, a small celebration...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 24, 2020
- 1 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...
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