Category Archives: Explorations
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
Spring 2019 – Part 2 – Solukhumbu – The Spires and The Everest Three Passes Trek
The second part of our journey took us from the high arid zones of Mustang right into the rumbling, high spires of Solukhumbu. The lands of the Sherpa people, the Rai people and names like Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, and … 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
Nepal – The Buzz That Leads to the Sky
Tea and Mountains – The Buzz that leads to the Sky Continue reading
Akahiao Nature Institute…and tea times
When, a few years ago, I left northwestern Yunnan to join my wife Julie and live here in Hawaii, there were concerns that I’d somehow be removed from what had been my base close to mountains and tea and of the … Continue reading
Ayni – Reciprocity. The Third Instalment of our Andean Journeys along the Inca Road
The Llama’s ass, tea leaves, and a mountain where the Royal Incas came for guidance from the still-reverent spirit world. Our last instalment (here) of the ‘In from the Outpost’ (on tea’ journeys through the Andean world. Pariaqaqa, a mountain … Continue reading
Tea Horse Road – Witness
“The tea caravans would come from the north and they would come in Spring and even winter. The Khampas who accompanied the caravans could frighten and impress us. They were unpredictable and without fear. Their journeys made them indestructible”. Words … Continue reading
The Tea Horse Road – The Grace
A little moment of respite for our incredible hostess who remains still, one of most formidable characters in my memory palace. While running around researching the Tea Horse Road, a friend who was from the Yi minority invited me to … 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