Jeff Fuchs

Jan 7, 20211 min read

Tea Horse Chronicles - The Hostess, The Keeper

A nomadic hostess (nemo) offers up a smile to our sun and grime battered crew near Ala Jagung, Tibet. The smile that comes from living so...

Jeff Fuchs

Jan 5, 20211 min read

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

Jan 2, 20211 min read

Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of Women

Nomadic women of Ganze gather on a grassland to take part in a horse festival. It was through and over such high grasslands that the Tea...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 30, 20201 min read

Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Pluck

Napu went up the tea tree amid a forest of tea trees, shimmying along a support branch, until she could access the buds and leaves two...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 29, 20201 min read

Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Crossing

Poignant in this years' end and the arrival of a new time and space. A last vestige of travel across the glacier-fed waterways of the...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 28, 20201 min read

Tea Horse Chronicles - 'The Dorjè'

Immersed in a hotspring that is tucked within a mountain cave, sitting beside the venerable and irrepressible Dorjè Kandro. Just days...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 24, 20201 min read

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...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 17, 20201 min read

Tea Horse Road Chronicles Continued - A Sanctuary of Leaves

We are engulfed in the ancient tea forest. Damp earth and mushroom smells hit us as Napu walks out in front of us through an entire world...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 11, 20201 min read

Tea Horse Road Chronicles, Part 5 - The Load (Gyap'kè)

A continuation of some of the embedded moments - both large and small - of our 7.5 month expedition to chart and document the Tea Horse...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 8, 20202 min read

Tea Horse Road Chronicles, Part 4, The Ebb

Tea Horse Road Chronicles Part 4. Continuing with an homage and tribute to spaces, moments, and sparks in the memory palace of time spent...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 6, 20201 min read

Tea Horse Road Chronicles Part 2 - Coming Snow

Nomads tuck into wools as a snow storm begins to usher in a new sky and new snow-filled gusts near Litang, in western Sichuan. The...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 1, 20202 min read

Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part 1

The coming weeks' posts will delve back into the memory palace of moments from our 7.5 month expedition along the Tea Horse Road, to...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 28, 20208 min read

Tea's Brilliant (and Needed) Informality

Mr. Gao and his tidy moustache move past, beckoning me to join. He has finished a day of pan frying his remarkable teas, and now it is...