Explorers Club Talk – Jeff Fuchs Presents the Himalaya’s ‘Route of Wind and Wool’

Posted on February 11, 2014 by JeffFuchs

February 14 at 7:15 PM ET: Explorer Jeff Fuchs and the Route of Wind and Wool at 

Valentine’s Day Talk….ahem

Kensington Tours
36 Toronto St #300, Toronto, ON M5C 2C5

Route of Wind and Wool - Jeff Fuchs

Explorers Club members and friends across Canada are encouraged to join the Ontario Nunavut monthly dinner as award-winning explorer and Explorer Club member Jeff Fuchs traces his experiences on the oldest trade pathways through the desolate magnificence of the India Himalaya.

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February 14 at 7:15 PM ET: Jeff Fuchs and the Route of Wind and Wool

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Award-winning explorer Jeff Fuchs will share his experiences on the first western expedition to trace one of the ancient world’s long lost trade routes, through some of the planet’s most daunting and stunning geographies. The Route of Wind and Wool traces what is left of one of the oldest trade pathways on the planet over and through the desolate magnificence of the India Himalaya. The team was searching for the remains of the route – and the memories along it – in an odyssey by foot and mule through ice, over stone, and back into time on a 33-day journey by foot. It was the fourth such exploration in Fuchs’ series to revisit the lost Himalayan trade routes. Jeff is a brand ambassador for The North Face, Kensington Tours, and kora Himalayan baselayers and would like to thank the generous support of each.

Jeff Fuchs on Route of Wind and Wool

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Tea Tour with Jeff Fuchs and Sri Lanka In Style through Sri Lanka

Posted on January 28, 2014 by JeffFuchs

One of this year’s joys will be hosting another kind of tea tour. This tea tour is aided by  the impeccable talents of Sri Lanka in Style across jungles, into cultures, and all happily fuelled by teas of a different colour. Sri Lanka’s scents, tints, and tastes come alive this summer in a tea tour of so much more here.

Sri Lanka Tea Tour - Jeff FuchsA Tea Tour designed, indulged in, and presented by Jeff Fuchs, Miguel Cunat and Sri Lanka in Style.

Sri Lanka Tea Journey - Jeff Fuchs

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Tea Horse Road and the Women’s Touch

Posted on January 9, 2014 by JeffFuchs

As a New Year came in I thought back to those whose ‘new’ year’s have not yet come. I thought back to three generations of women who hosted our team on a barren portion of the Tea Horse Road years ago. Their community at over five thousand metres, ‘Ala Dhotok’, bristled with wind and yet our team of dusty husks of glazed eyes and matted hair was welcomed, fed, and sent off with a mountain warmth that remains in the veins still. Within their tent, grandmother spoke of the days of trade and plied us with tea and yak cheese, her daughter cared for her own daughter and our filthy group lay back content in the knowledge that even if for the moment, we were warm and fed.

Nomads along the Tea Horse Road - Jeff Fuchs

Some sips of tea later we made out for the waist deep snows of Nup Gong La (Western Pass), warmer and a bit more sane for our little stop. Good Wishes to you mountain goddesses for your own upcoming year in the snows. Even a great route through the sky like the Tea Horse Road needs the warmth of its people.

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Tea Interview with Tealet and Jeff Fuchs…with Tea

Posted on January 3, 2014 by JeffFuchs

Tealet’s fearless leader Elyse Petersen sits down for an interview with yours truly about tea, where I get to gently rant a bit about Puerh tea, people, and why tea and people cannot be separated. Enjoyed with a sip of course. A tea interview is always something good.

See interview here

Tealet with Jeff Fuchs

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Two Worlds – The Himalayas and the South Pacific – and Global Warming

Posted on December 15, 2013 by JeffFuchs

So much of the time I’ve had here with the East West Center in Honolulu as an invited speaker has been time spent showing, seeing, and being reminded of the very similar plights that people share, while living in very different spaces leagues away from one another.

Nomads' Plight - Jeff Fuchs

During one talk, I introduced portraits and words of indigenous locals (their words not mine) and their observations of Global Warming and Climate Change in their intimate worlds within the Himalayas. What followed the talk was a number of women from the incredibly gifted and committed ‘Pacific Islands Women in Leadership Program’ coming to express the feelings of empathy and a kind of kinship in the struggle to deal with an imminent threat to basic livelihoods.

I'm joined by the 'forces of nature' from Kiribati Takena Redfern and Roreti Eritai. Both felt enormous parallels between their world of rising ocean levels and the Himalayan worlds of nomads where ice and snow disappear at an ever-increasing speed.

I’m joined by the ‘forces of nature’ from Kiribati Takena Redfern and Roreti Eritai. Both felt enormous parallels between their world of rising ocean levels and the Himalayan worlds of nomads where ice and snow disappear at an ever-increasing speed.

It is perhaps when far off lands ‘collide’ and when stories are shared that there is an opportunity for complicity and understanding that the world – more than ever – needs engagement, and a sense of shared purpose to move forward.

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Himalayas Change – A Nomad’s Words About Mountains

Posted on December 1, 2013 by JeffFuchs
A’bing of Ganzi at 4,700 meters in a tent speaking of life in the heights. “Winter no longer knows when it wants to come. It no longer comes with white snow. Now it is mainly dry. Maybe it is time to change from being a nomad”. 
Much in the Himalayas’ Climate has changed but few regard the words of the local nomads with much respect.
 Nomads-Jeff Fuchs
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JalamTeas Tea Review (a good one) of our Nannuo Shan Puerh

Posted on November 28, 2013 by JeffFuchs

Our Jalamteas’ Nannuo Shan unfermented Puerh from one of the areas I hand source, finds a fan and gets a great review from witty tea blog “Steep Stories”. With our latest JalamTeas’ Nannuo Shan we touch upon a neutral and balanced Puerh.

See review here and sip and chuckle along as this reviewer even makes reference to Eddy Izzard. JalamTeas and Eddy Izzard…who would have thought it?

Tea forest - Jeff Fuchs

 

 

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Himalayas’ Words – The Wolf aka, ‘The Old Master’

Posted on November 24, 2013 by JeffFuchs

“Wolves are what we (nomads) fear most. They know us well and though I fear them, they are important for the land. They know how to wait and they know when to strike. My mother used to call them the “old masters”. Words from a Himalayan nomad about the ‘old master’, the wolf. The Himalayas’ health, her people, and her stories are of vital importance to the greater world around her.

Nomad 4 - Jeff Fuchs

Tangible bit of language about a nomad’s recall of the great hunters of the mountains, the wolf (njun’kè in eastern Tibet). This nomad became serious when recalling the wolves’ abilities and importance within the great mountains. Hopefully we won’t lose these colourful anecdotes of life and relationships. As the nomads often say, “first one has to listen”.

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Interview with Wild China about Trade Routes

Posted on November 15, 2013 by JeffFuchs

 

The Enduring Obsession and Importance of the Himalayan Trade Routes

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Tea Horse Road. Jeff Fuchs

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The Himalayas’ Guardian of the Pass

Posted on November 14, 2013 by JeffFuchs

The face of Lhamo, 23, of Ala Dhotok (Stone Roof) at over 5,000 metres in Eastern Tibet. Her ‘community’ deep within the folds of the Himalayas involved nothing more than a loose trio of yak wool tents that rippled with wind. As our team passed within site on our way to cross the Nup Gong Pass, Lhamo insisted that we sit and fortify ourselves with tea and a fires’ warmth.

Her home, belongings, yak, and family – all of the necessaries – were within easy reach at all times. Her’s is another of the timeless faces and personalities of the Himalayas.

8 nomad - Jeff Fuchs

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