Ayni – Reciprocity. The Third Installment of our Andean Journeys along the Inca Road

The Llama’s ass, tea leaves, and a mountain where the Royal Incas came for guidance from the still-reverent spirit world. Our last...

Jeff Fuchs

Feb 27, 20191 min read

Canadian Geographic Interview – A Revisit with the Tea Horse Road

Rolling back some years with Canadian Geographic to a time when the leaf and the Tea Horse Road came full force into my blood stream. One...

Jeff Fuchs

Feb 27, 20181 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

Jun 16, 20174 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

Sep 15, 20164 min read

World Explorers Summit – Cardiff Wales, Exploration and its vital people and tales

World Explorers Summit in Cardiff Wales Will be speaking at the World Explorers Summit in September…with tea at the ready. Great line up...

Jeff Fuchs

Apr 14, 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

Feb 28, 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 26, 20161 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 29, 20151 min read

Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 2

A continuing of the epic characters, moments, and spaces of the past years in no particular order along with the requisite captions. To...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 19, 20151 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

Dec 16, 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

Nov 13, 20152 min read

The Glacier’s Breath – Amid the Temples of Ice

Debra Tan’s lungs and ligaments are strained still but she is learning the mountain way: ‘dirè dirè’ (slowly slowly) and all will pass....

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 7, 20154 min read

The Glacier’s Breath – Bara Shigri

Biari lights up after a tea So much of what is good and cherished in my days is both deliberately tea related and in some wonderful cases...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 5, 20157 min read

Expedition – The Glacier’s Breath

Glacier water sluices down near the Changtang region of the Himalayas Preparing to head back into the precious Himalayas of Ladakh for a...

Jeff Fuchs

Sep 6, 20152 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

Dec 24, 20141 min read

Tea Horse Road – The Faces

Yeshi during an interview in Pomda, in western Sichuan Province Beyond simply the daunting snow passes, eccentric bandits, and...

Jeff Fuchs

Jun 27, 20141 min read

The Tea Horse Road Expedition – 8 Years’ On…

Eight years ago this month, a team of mountain men that were in part desperate, utterly tough, and not entirely sure of what was to come,...

Jeff Fuchs

Jun 24, 20142 min read

Interview with Wild China about Trade Routes

The Enduring Obsession and Importance of the Himalayan Trade Routes here #TeaHorseRoad #TeaHorseTrails #Himalayantravel #Chinatravel...

Jeff Fuchs

Nov 15, 20131 min read

Expedition Update: A Team’s Faces

The skin, bones, and essence of our trip: the faces and personalities behind the efforts. I thought it time to properly ‘introduce’ the...

Jeff Fuchs

Sep 30, 20132 min read