Our latest episode of ‘It’s a Beautiful World’ is now up and alive on Amazon Prime. The team at Global Heroes has been at it in the editing suites and our latest journey to Guatemala (tea fuelled as always) is now out.
It’s a Beautiful World with Jeff Fuchs
Guatemala will be a multi-episode experience which will focus, as we do, upon the little stories and understated organizations and individuals who simply do the deeds to assist and support others, the land, and the precious stewarding of culture.
As with our intention, we try to honour a bit of legitimate food, some of the deeper layers of histrionics, and the vital aspect of time spent listening.
This first episode includes Chef Mirciny Moliviatis and her rampant energy opening up and encouraging some chilly and cuisine…the chilly actually had us delay our filming entirely due to its less than subtle intensity when it hit my own palate. We also get time with the elegant restorer and reader of the Mayan world, Francisco Estrada-Belli who led us into the tombs of history at Holmul; and Juan Pablo Romero Fuentes welcomed us into his version of what education could be for youth and children alike at the incredible El Patojismo.
Honoured to have had the time and shared breaths and food with these wonderful characters and experience their efforts.
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.
