Jeff Fuchs

Sep 9, 20172 min read

Tea Explorer Extended Run – On CBC’s Doc Channel

We’re delighted to announce that our documentary film The Tea Explorer film is getting an additional airing on Sunday Sept, 10th at 9 pm...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 26, 20171 min read

Interview with Love for Tea – The Tea Explorer

Love when the word ‘conversation’ is used instead of Interview. Had a wonderful ‘conversation’ with the eloquent Ruhani Sandhu of Rangsaa...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 25, 20171 min read

Our ‘The Tea Explorer’ Doc Film Gets Some Blushing Reviews

After much time, edits, permits, scoring the music and still more editing down from the team at 90th Parallel Productions, our first...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 12, 20172 min read

The Tea Explorer – Our Tea Documentary on CBC’s Doc Channel

Finally, our Tea Horse Road inspired film doc, The Tea Explorer has a first ever air-date on television on CBC’s Doc Channel on July...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 5, 20174 min read

Mustang – Part 2 – Route of Khampas

“A land of little and a route of much” is how I often view this present journey and it is how I’ve viewed many of Himalayan trade routes...

Jeff Fuchs

Jun 16, 20174 min read

Mustang’s Eastern Trade Route

Trade routes (still) offer up hints and teasers about how lands evolved and functioned. Everything from DNA to luxuries and tid-bits from...

Jeff Fuchs

Mar 17, 20177 min read

Darjeeling Chronicles (2 of 2) – Jungpana

Past Kurseong’s mildly raging centre of town we settle at last at Goomtee, again with Rajiv acting as flawless and entertaining guide...

Jeff Fuchs

Feb 24, 20176 min read

Darjeeling Chronicles 1 (of 2) – To Jungpana Slowly

An act that will repeat itself again and again…the great pour. A joy is sometimes not having a huge frame of reference nor expectation....

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 31, 20169 min read

Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update V – A Descent

Berinder is impatient and staring in his mournful way at Saurabh and I to hurry. He wants to move and it is our day to make another...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 21, 20163 min read

Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update l

First steps towards Gangotri Glacier involve words from an impeccable source. For six decades Swami Sunderland has climbed, wandered, and...

Jeff Fuchs

Sep 15, 20164 min read

Glaciers’ Breath ll Update – Ice, Ganges, and Shiva

Our departure nears from here in Hong Kong’s heat to India’s northern Himalaya range and the ascent to Gangotri glacier. From the heavens...

Jeff Fuchs

Apr 4, 20161 min read

Tea Journey Begins

Tea Journey Magazine is now up and running on Kickstarter for the next 60 days. A great initiative for one of the fastest growing...

Jeff Fuchs

Feb 28, 20161 min read

Nomad’s Fine Food – Air-Dried Yak

Tibetan styled air drying. Slabs of yak meat hang in a nomad’s tent letting 4500-metre air and wind dry one of the vital protein sources...

Jeff Fuchs

Jan 26, 20161 min read

Speaking About the Ancient Tea Horse Road

Great pleasure reminiscing and chatting about the Tea Horse Road on Talk Travel Asia  with Scott Coates and Trevor Ranges. Thoughts of...

Jeff Fuchs

Jan 5, 20164 min read

Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 7

More of the precious from 2015. A final Ascent…An End and the New Beginnings A morning snow, A Lao Banzhang Leaf, A Mountain Steward, A...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 31, 20151 min read

Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 6

Magnificent Raju, an old friend, and landscapes that are tortured and utterly narcotic. The Mountains’ and their people and spaces that...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 29, 20151 min read

Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 5

Owing to Hector the Brave’s popularity and the debt to which our ‘Glacier’s Breath’ Expedition owes his efforts, a video in honour of our...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 29, 20151 min read

Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 4

Continued Tributes: A Father After feeding us in his home, this Tibetan man went over to his son who was our guide, and briefly touched...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 16, 20152 min read

Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains

Decided that there must be some way to pay some tribute to the faces, spaces, and leaves that have inspired either by wonderful force, or...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 15, 20156 min read

Glacier Melt – Nomad Streams

The long ridgeline of sediment and stone from a glacier has made a wall beside our trail. Known as an esker it is a thing of power and...