Tag Archives: Himalayan exploration
Tea’s Last Guardians – The Himalayan Muleteers and the Tea Horse Road
Joining the storied Royal Geographical Society here in London as they host my upcoming talks: Tea’s Last Guardians – The Himalayan Muleteers, this upcoming Monday and Tuesday. A magnificent venue to rant on about two great fuels: tea and mountains…and their epic custodians whose grand work rarely gets a worthwhile bit of mention. A grand tribute to the Tea Horse Road. Continue reading
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 7
A tribute to mountains, tea, their characters and the preservation of the mountain culture and environments. Continue reading
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 6
Tributes to the Himalayas, its people, its spaces, and its impact Continue reading
Glacier Melt – Nomad Streams
Exploring water and glaciers in the Himalayas Continue reading
The Glacier’s Breath – Bara Shigri
So much of what is good and cherished in my days is both deliberately tea related and in some wonderful cases accidentally tea related. Days into ‘The Glacier’s Breath’ expedition tin cups are held in a large semi-circle of bodies … Continue reading
Photo Essay Feature in Action Asia Adventure Magazine: The Tea Horse Road, Nomadic Route of Salt, and The Route of Wind and Wool
Photo-Essay feature of mine out in Hong Kong’s Action Asia this week. Images and tales of the precious Himalayan ‘routes through the sky’, the faces, and the vital memories and lessons along them. Not simply trade routes of economic vitality, … Continue reading
Award-Winning Writer Mariellen Ward Got Curious about an explorer, and then Interviewed Me
Explorer Jeff Fuchs gets interviewed by Mariellen Ward on her blog ‘breathedreamgo’. Continue reading
Tea Horse Road and the Women’s Touch
As a New Year came in I thought back to those whose ‘new’ year’s have not yet come. I thought back to three generations of women who hosted our team on a barren portion of the Tea Horse Road years … Continue reading
New Article in About.com About the Tea Horse Road…
Was asked to do an article about those stunning and often tortured Himalayas for About.com on trade and those icons of the mountains, the people. Article here