Our story · Eastern Nepal

It started with a cup that needed nothing.

A single-garden black tea—naturally rich, complete on its own, and impossible to separate from the people and place that made it.

Third Peak began with a simple conviction: exceptional tea should arrive with its origin intact.

Third Peak field notes, tea leaves and a map of Nepal
Field note 001 · Nepal to America
27.7° N · 88.1° ETea slopes at Kanchanjangha Tea Estate in eastern Nepal
01 / The beginning

Not a country of origin. A precise place.

Kanchanjangha Tea Estate sits high in eastern Nepal. Established in 1984 and organic since 1996, it is owned by more than 100 family shareholders.

That changes the story. The garden is not a footnote on a pack. It is where flavour, knowledge and responsibility begin.

Elevation
1,300–1,800m
Structure
Farmer-owned
02 / The conviction

What if the distance between the person who makes tea and the person who drinks it could feel smaller?

Keep what matters
visible.

01

One garden

Keep the estate visible.

02

One harvest

Let season shape the cup.

03

Known hands

Keep people attached to the leaf.

03 / The passage

From pluck
to port.

The journey stays short enough to understand—and visible enough to question.

  1. 01 Day 0 Hand-plucked
  2. 02 Day 0–2 Made at origin
  3. 03 Day 3 Sealed at altitude
  4. 04 Week 3 Bound for San Francisco
Hands working with whole tea leaves in Ilam
The human knowledge behind the leaf · Ilam
04 / The reason

Tea is never
only tea.

“I am not the man who almost gave up. I am the man tea brought back.”

Sujan Limbu · Tea maker, Ilam

Meet the people
One garden · One harvest · One story

A piece of their world.
Made for yours.

Third Peak exists to carry remarkable Nepali tea across the distance without losing sight of where—and who—it came from.

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