Category Archives: Explorations
Our “The Tea Explorer” Documentary is – finally – up on Youtube (with heaps of ads).
Almost ten years ago Andrew Gregg, sound magician Mike Josselyn, 90th Parallel, and I, made ’The Tea Explorer’ documentary. Many over the years have asked when it will be available for a more general viewing. Finally, the piece which (still) … Continue reading
Expedition Update – Departure for Nepal
The concept of a ‘departure’ has all changed since Sebastian’s arrival into our little orbit. Now a departure isn’t simply an exciting bit of stimulant rip…now it is thing tinged with a bit of regret knowing he won’t join on … Continue reading
“It’s a Beautiful World with Jeff Fuchs” is now available on Amazon US and Amazon UK
At last. My collaboration with the wonderful crew of creatives at Global Heroes, “It’s a Beautiful World with Jeff Fuchs” is now up and ‘watchable’ on Amazon US and Amazon UK. Link here for the trailer and airing information. The … Continue reading
New Year, New Projects, and Some Tea
Tea, Television, and Time Continue reading
Lobsang – On Water in the Himalayas
A morning of brittle cold that brought the eyes to a standstill in Darlag, southern Amdo. Lobsang watches while his two sons source ice from a nearby ‘lake’ to bring home to boil for morning tea. Lobsang asked me whether … Continue reading
Tea Pot Travels – The 90 ml in Europe
The second selection is a 200 gram cake of Spring 2021 Naka old tree (100 + years). A bit of brilliance it is on the palate. Fresh and almost throbbing with ‘qi’, it counts among my ‘teas that cannot disappoint’. The region’s ability to provide random bits of sumptuous unbridled strength on the palate and in the blood isn’t always a given…but it usually is. It is one of the regions that, with careful hands and consistent raw materials, can provide an offering that satiates and restores my very core. It is too, a tea that can ‘cut’ through a palate of pungent cheese without a problem. I know this well as the two are frequent partners on my palate journeys. Continue reading
Dolma, the Titan
Over the course of a decade of repeated visits to a nomadic community and little Dolma’s clan near Litang, I would continuously be in awe of the ’nomadic ways’ of doing simply anything. Moving up to a half dozen times … Continue reading
Leaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the Heights
It was upon the months’ long journeys along the Tea Horse Road that the big-leafed ‘assamica’ material and eternal panacea, tea, would transform and morph from a simple green tea into an almost compost-like blend that many Tibetans began to … Continue reading
Pomo – The Girl Who Could Do It All
‘Cheshi’ in the early morning in her family’s nomadic camp of Shin’zhu’gong at close to 5000 metres. I continually messed up her name, though I spent weeks with her and family. She patiently dealt with me until she reminded me … Continue reading
The Goddess and the Butter
Her’s was the last tent in the windblown nomadic community of Ala Dhotok (Stone Roof), before we headed up the snow pass of Nup Gong La. It was another morning of cold along a portion of the Tea Horse Road … Continue reading