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.
Nice bit of recognition for the leaf as this coming May 21st has been officially designated as International Tea Day…though for many of us, we could simply call most days “International Tea Time”. If interested, please join in some leaf-fuelled … Continue reading →
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Tagged Chat, International Tea Day, Jalamteas, Jeff Fuchs, Pu'erh, Sofa Summit, Tea, Tea and Herbal Association of Canada, Tea Chat, Tea Time, yunnan
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Will be chatting all things mountains, trade routes, yak wool…and tea, with friend and longtime expedition partner (and founder of Kora) Michael Kleinwort this coming Wednesday April 15th here: https://www.facebook.com/koraoutdoor/ at 16:00 PST. The chat will be live, and tea … Continue reading →
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Tagged expeditions, Himalayas, Jeff Fuchs, kora, Michael Kleinwort, mountains, Salt Road, Tea, Tea Horse Road, Yak Wool
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Perspective, the genius and inspiration of Mr. Gao, and a Hawaiian grown white tea Continue reading →
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Tagged Big Island Tea, Bio Dynamic Tea, Bohea, Bulang Mountain, Cha, diy tea, Growing tea, Jeff Fuchs, Lao Banzhang, Making tea, Permaculture tea, Pu'erh, Sheng Puerh, Tea, Tea growth, tea leaves, tea table, Tea Time, white tea, Yabukita, yunnan, Yutakamidori
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Sonam moves up singing, chatting, all the while moving through his Tibetan Mala beads. Mingmar dances from stone outcroppings to thatches of stems and back. Always he is looking for medicine, herbs, or simply that which matters to him – … Continue reading →
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Tagged avalanche, climate, environment, Glaciers, Himalayas, Ice, Kyanjin Gompa, Langtang, Lirung, mountains, Nepal, Sherpa, Tea, tea and mountains, Tibet, Water, wisdom
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“We cannot change too much of what is there, but we can manage what we see and how we move forward”, Uncle Dawa says at one point over a tea. As with so much in my own frames of life, tea is a conduit and facilitator. It is a fluid that soothes, and stimulates. Continue reading →
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Tagged Glaciers, Himalayan Water Towers, Himalayas, kyanjin, Langtang, Lirung, mountains, Nepal, Sherpa, Tea, tea and mountains, tea break, Third Pole, Tibet, Water
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Perceptions are everything and here there is so very much within sensing distance. Syabrubesi is a dusty gateway that lies behind us. We head west through green tree lines of pine, birch, and rhododendron and nettles. The Buddhist sage and … Continue reading →
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Tagged documentary, environment, Glaciers, herbs, Himalayan medicines, Himalayan Water Towers, Himalayas, Ice, Jeff Fuchs, Langtang, Lirung, Milarepa, mountains, nettles, rhododendron, storytelling, Tea, Third Pole
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A flow westward out of one of the most precision oriented cultures of the leaf to a tiny corner (and an old home of mine) in southwestern China, where the leaf is still at times an imprecise thing of random … Continue reading →
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Tagged Asia tea, Bulang Mountain, China Tea, Jalamteas, jeff tea, Jing Hong, Menghai, Nannuo Mountain, Pu'erh, puer, Sheng Puerh, Tea, tea cake, tea pot, tea production, Tea shop, tea travel, teahouse, white tea, Xishuangbanna, yunnan
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The first concept that is immediately put on the shelf about a teahouse here in Japan is that there will be no fun. The second concept is that there must be a kind of rigid adherence to structure and form. … Continue reading →
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Tagged chado, Green Tea, japan tea, koicha, matcha, Offering, powdered tea, sake, Tea, tea ceremony, tea culture, tea house, teahouse, thick tea, thin tea, tradition, usucha
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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 →
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Tagged Cha, chagama, Green Tea, Gyokuro, Jalamteas, japan, japan tea, jeff tea, Kyotanabe, Nippon tea, Sencha, Tea, tea tradition, Umami
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