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
Bio
Having lived for most of the past decade in Asia, Fuchs’ work has centered on indigenous mountain cultures, oral histories with an obsessive interest in tea. His photos and stories have appeared on three continents in award-winning publications 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 Traveler amongst others. Various pieces of his work are part of private collections in Europe, North America and Asia and he serves as the Asian Editor at Large for Canada’s award-winning Outpost magazine.
Fuchs is the Wild China Explorer of the Year for 2011 for sustainable exploration of the Himalayan Trade Routes. He recently completed a month long expedition a previously undocumented ancient nomadic salt route at 4,000 metres becoming the first westerner to travel the Tsa’lam ‘salt road’ through Qinghai.
Fuchs has written on indigenous perspectives for UNESCO, and has having consulted for National Geographic. Fuchs is a member of the fabled Explorers Club, which supports sustainable exploration and research.
Jeff has worked with schools and universities, giving talks on both the importance of oral traditions, tea and mountain cultures. He has spoken to the prestigious Spanish Geographic Society in Madrid on culture and trade through the Himalayas and his sold out talk at the Museum of Nature in Canada focused on the enduring importance of oral narratives and the Himalayan trade routes.
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.
He makes his home in ‘Shangrila’, northwestern Yunnan upon the eastern extension of the Himalayan range where tea and mountains abound; and where he leads expeditions the award winning ‘Tea Horse Road Journey’ with Wild China along portions of the Ancient Tea Horse Road.
To keep fueled up for life Fuchs co-founded JalamTeas which keeps him deep in the green while high in the hills.
