About JeffFuchs
Having lived for a decade in Yunnan, Fuchs’ work has centred on indigenous mountain cultures, oral histories along with an obsessive interest in tea.
Fuchs is the author of 'The Ancient Tea Horse Road' (Viking-Penguin) and he was the subject of 'The Tea Explorer' documentary based on his exploration of the Tea Horse Road.
His photos and stories have appeared on three continents in publications such as Kyoto Journal, TRVL, and Outpost Magazine, as well as The Spanish Expedition Society, The Earth, Silkroad Foundation, The China Post Newspaper, The Toronto Star, The South China Morning Post, and UNESCO amongst others. Various pieces of his work are part of private collections in Europe, North America, and Asia. Fuchs served as Asian Editor at Large for five years at award-winning Outpost magazine.
Jeff has worked with schools and universities, giving talks on both the importance of oral traditions, tea and mountain cultures.
His recently released book ‘The Ancient Tea Horse Road’ (Penguin-Viking Publishers) details his 8-month groundbreaking journey traveling and chronicling one of the world’s great trade routes, The Tea Horse Road. Fuchs is the first westerner to have completed the entire route stretching almost six thousand kilometers through the Himalayas a dozen cultures.
Fuchs partnered with Wild China to create a journey along the Tea Horse Road which National Geographic Traveler called one of the "50 Trips of a Lifetime".
He is co-founder of Akahiao Nature Institute on the island of Hawai'i along with his wife, Julie Rogers.
Mystification in Puerh’s world comes from some of its legitimate claims, but it also comes from regurgitated misinformation, marketing, and the intensely pretentious. Mystification, though, can also serve to hide or manipulate knowledge and create hype, and it is at this, that this little bit of writing is directed. Continue reading →
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In a day and age of digital everything and seemingly every topic at our fingertips, it’s rare nowadays, compared to say 50 years ago, to meet a true ‘explorer’: a person who has ventured out into truly unique and remote lands, having cultural exchanges where outsiders have perhaps not, and bringing the tales home. Our guest today, Canadian Jeff Fuchs is just that – an explorer. Continue reading →
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Tagged Asian travel, China travel, exploration, Himalayas, Jeff Fuchs, Nomads, Puerh tea, tea caravans, Tea Horse Road, Tea Trails, The Ancient Tea Horse Road, tibet travel, Yunnan Travel
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Delighted to be speaking and slurping away at this year’s annual Toronto Tea Festival on behalf of our own JalamTeas. January 30th’s talk “Puerh’s Roots – Caravan Fuel to Boutique Idol” will look at the ascent of the unique … Continue reading →
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Tagged China travel, chinese tea, Jeff Fuchs, Puer tea, Puerh tea, Tea Horse Road, Toronto Tea Festival
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A tribute to mountains, tea, their characters and the preservation of the mountain culture and environments. Continue reading →
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Tagged chinese tea, Himalayan exploration, Himalayan trade routes, Himalayan travel, Himalayas, Indigenous tea culture, Jeff Fuchs, Nomads, Pu'erh, puer, tea caravans, tea drinking, Tea Horse Road
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Tributes to the Himalayas, its people, its spaces, and its impact Continue reading →
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Tagged Himalayan Expeditions, Himalayan exploration, Himalayan travel, Himalayas, Jeff Fuchs, Journeys, Porters, Tea and Mountain Journals, Tibet
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Owing to Hector the Brave’s popularity and the debt to which our ‘Glacier’s Breath’ Expedition owes his efforts, a video in honour of our little friend in the mountains. Hector here.
Mountains and Tea and their people and spaces Continue reading →
A continuing of the epic characters, moments, and spaces of the past years in no particular order along with the requisite captions. To continue until the end of 2015…
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 by gentle ways in the past year. It is also a way of saying thank … Continue reading →
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Tagged Asian travel, expeditions, exploration, Himalayan Caravans, Himalayan culture, Himalayan travel, Himalayas, Jeff Fuchs, Ladakh, mountains, Nomads, Tea, tribute
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