Category Archives: Tea
Tea Horse Road Chronicles – The Coming Snow
The Coming Snow. A nomad tucks in amidst a coming snow storm at 4200 metres near Litang, western Sichuan. The Litangba (people of Li’thang) were revered and feared along portions of the Tea Horse Road for sometimes opposing reasons. Not … Continue reading
Tea Horse Road Chronicles – The Little One
In the coming weeks a trip back into the characters and moments of our journey along the Tea Horse Road (the first documented western journey along the magnificent highway through the sky). The first segment then begins here. — We … Continue reading
White Tea Trials on the Big Island and the Memory of a Mentor
Perspective, the genius and inspiration of Mr. Gao, and a Hawaiian grown white tea Continue reading
Gyokuro Moments with Tea People – Japan
Some sage and simple wisdom as always from those who spend time at the source, at the cup, and in the tea houses. Travel through some of Japan’s tea zones has been an immersion into more informality than expected. Expected … Continue reading
Our “In From the Outpost” TV Teasers Are Officially Out
One of the most impactful concepts and terms last year was the word ‘Ayni’. Used in the Andean world by many of its peoples, it was a concept embraced by the Inca people. Link here for Teasers During our journey … Continue reading
Northern India – A collaboration with Exodus Travels and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society
Tea fuelled, I’ll be returning to one my favourite haunts – and of the most intense and provocative spaces anywhere – collaborating with Exodus Travel and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society for a journey into northern India to immerse in it all. … Continue reading
Mustang and its Eastern Route – Spring 2019 – Part 1 The Khampa Route
Trekking along the Khampa Route, along the eastern flank of Mustang, Nepal Continue reading
Part 2 of our ‘In from the Outpost’
Second Part of our recent ramblings through Peru and the Andean world, with a visit to the village of Chawaytiri here. More sips of tea, more coca offers, still more coca…before an offering of a tea cake to the elders, which … Continue reading
In the Land of Ayni (Part 1) – Outpost Magazine
Part 1 of our journey into the Andean world and my own slight obsession with the concept and Quechuan word, Ayni, here. The Quechuan word ‘Ayni’…a sublime and old Andean idea; a responsibility that one has to one’s community. A … Continue reading
Mustang Spaces 2 – The Cup, The Mountains
The Tibetan term ‘gtum mo’, pronounced “Tummo” refers to the tantric tradition of meditation that summons or produces heat and a kind of blissful warmth within the body. It is a kind of yogic heat, which is attained through a … Continue reading