The Tibetan closes his treasure box and tucks it into the side of his tent. Before we depart, he insists we have one more cup of burning yak butter tea. As we ride off across the high plains ...

he went to Tibet to learn how to meditate. During a trek in the mountains, he was offered a cup of tea infused with yak butter. Native to the Himalayas, the yak is a long-haired relative of the ...

Also called Kashmiri tea, it is made with green tea leaves, baking soda, and sea salt. This creamy concoction from the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Bhutan, India, and Tibet is made by mixing regular ...

The road went over the Sho’La Pass, the gateway to Tibet, a 4,800-metre summit ... To add nourishment, the Tibetans churned the tea with salt and yak-butter, making it more of a meal.

According to Asprey, the drink is based on Tibetan yak butter tea he drank while hiking in the mountains, which he said revitalized him and relieved the brain fog and strain of being in subzero ...