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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
Nov 18, 20166 min read
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Gangotri Update lV – Nandanvan (Paradise)
“These silences are good for the whole body”, says Saurabh and it has been, though it marks a great contrast to our team’s scurrying...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 29, 20163 min read
The Glaciers’ Breath ll Expedition – The Ganges’ Source
Preparation Notes…and Tea Stirring through some cakes and balls of tea deciding on the leaves to take on this upcoming venture to the...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 12, 20166 min read
He Kai Ancient Tree Puerh – A Long Walk
Nothing quite ‘scars’ the palate like a magnificent hit of a powerful tea. From that moment forward something has changed and it might as...
Jeff Fuchs
Jul 8, 20164 min read
Puerh – Age and Other Words
Worlds of tea exist in twisted semi-fermented forms, flat green shapes and black beetle bits. Formats, ferments, withering, fries and...
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
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
Nov 13, 20152 min read
The Tea Explorer – Documentary Film
Movie Trailer here: The Tea Explorer The last month and a bit have been spent contentedly and sometimes manically slurping back tea,...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 6, 20157 min read
Southwest – Arriving to Pu erh Tea Central
Flights can anesthetize one from a full-on experience at times (however brutal that experience might be) and so it is that the journey...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 21, 20151 min read
The Ancient Tea Horse Road – Now in Portuguese
As an old trader along the Ancient Tea Horse Road once remarked to our team as we traveled through his village, “You all are lucky...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 14, 20151 min read
Tea Horse Road – words from Drolma
Elder Drolma from Dzogong speaks and reminisces about the days of the Tea Horse Road linking her home in eastern Tibet with Lhasa and...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 24, 20141 min read
Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs
Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs Condè Nast Traveller introduces my latest tea-fueled exercises in the green leaf here. A...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 17, 20141 min read
Photo Essay Feature in Action Asia Adventure Magazine: The Tea Horse Road, Nomadic Route of Salt, an
Photo-Essay feature of mine out in Hong Kong’s Action Asia this week. Images and tales of the precious Himalayan ‘routes through the...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 14, 20141 min read
New York’s Tea Drunk – I’m Bringing Pu erh tea Leaves and We’re Drinking
After the Explorers Club talk this Friday, I head south for tea sips to New York. No regular sips either…Pu erh tea leaves off of ancient...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 28, 20141 min read
Tea Tour with Jeff Fuchs and Sri Lanka In Style through Sri Lanka
One of this year’s joys will be hosting another kind of tea tour. This tea tour is aided by the impeccable talents of Sri Lanka in Style...
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