Part 4: Mint Tea in Marrakech And then one day the inevitable happens. Your steps become shorter, your breathing becomes more laboured, and you crave a cup of tea more and more.And that has nothing to do with altitude.Slowly, the years force you to give up extreme trekking. You opt for a more urban way…
Month: July 2026
Four Cups of Tea
Part 3: Butter Tea with the Changpa Nomads I admit that I am quite stubborn by nature. And sometimes I bang my head against a wall. How else can I explain that struggling around Annapurna and over the Thorung La Pass, crossing half the Sahara and climbing high into the mountains of Algeria was still…
Four Cups of Tea
Part 2: Morning Tea with the Tuaregs To this day, I still don’t understand what drives a person to set out on a three-week trek through the desert. Sand. Sand and rocks. An almost lunar landscape. Dry heat. Sweat. Sand between your teeth, and even in bread freshly baked over the embers.And morning tea.Back in…
Four Cups of Tea
Part 1: Tibetan Refugees in Nepal Tea. A drink enjoyed all over the world, in seemingly endless variations. From real tea, to South American mate tea, to various drinks that have nothing to do with tea except for the name.My first memory of tea goes back far to childhood, when we had a cold and…