The Tea Explorer – Screening at Toronto Tea Festival
The Toronto Tea Festival will be hosting director Andrew Gregg and I for a special screening of our ‘Tea Explorer’ film at the upcoming...
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Jeff Fuchs
Dec 30, 20174 min read
Tea, Mountains and The Close of a Year. Tributes and Moments
‘The Rice Eater’. A particularly strategic rice coveting monkey in Kathmandu who provided a spectacle lasting for 20 minutes. A new year...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 1, 20178 min read
Puerh’s Ancient Cylinder – 竹面 – Zhú tǒng
A local with a freshly unveiled ‘tong’ coming out of its bamboo home. The round cylinder of compressed Puerh, known in southern Yunnan to...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 9, 20172 min read
Our Tea Explorer at Hawaii’s International Film Festival
Tea-Fuelled fun on the tea stained carpets And so our Tea Explorer documentary of mountains, memories and leaves opened at the Hawaiian...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 31, 20171 min read
The Tea Explorer Film to Screen at Hawaii International Film Festival
On November 6th, our documentary, The Tea Explorer, will show at the Hawaii International Film Festival. Tea’s origins and that wonderful...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 17, 20172 min read
Feature Article: The Great Gangotri – Feeder of the Ganges
Gongotri Glacier – Great Feeder of the River Ganges One of the great moving river bodies of the planet, the mother Ganges, is fed by the...
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 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
Nov 8, 20164 min read
Glaciers’ Breath ll – Ganges Gangotri Update 3
The line is uneven. Random dark and bright spots lie along a long diagonal path that at times is nothing but some smudges in the sand....
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
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
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
Mar 10, 20151 min read
Mountains and Their Precious Rivers
Returning to northwestern Yunnan’s snow-clad mountains and their precious waterways. We’ll wander up the Salween River (pronounced Gyalmo...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 22, 20143 min read
Snow Curtains in Tibet
Winter has set in marking the end of my own season within the Himalayas and Tibet. It is time for the grand silences and deep cold –...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 30, 20141 min read
Our Expedition Ladakh gets Cover Feature in Outpost Magazine
Delighted to make the cover-feature (top-less no less) of Canada’s award-winning Outpost Magazine in the current edition. Our journey...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 15, 20141 min read
Interview with a legend of the Himalayas: Sadanand the Mountain Man
That wonderful renegade man of the mountains, Sadanand, who was such a dynamic horseman on our most recent expedition (and unknowingly...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 8, 20131 min read
Mountain Eyes
One of the immortal faces of the mountains…even though only four-years old. A nomadic girl, whose predecessors were a clan of ‘guardians’...
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