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What It Takes To Walk The Great Wall Of China

September 11, 2013

By: Guy Rubin | Topics: Arts & Culture , Nature & Environment , People , China Luxury Travel ,

Image of the Great Wall in Ningxia On October 9, 2000, five explorers set out in the middle of the world’s fifth-largest desert, the Taklimakan, as a team to walk the entire length of the Ming dynasty Great Wall of China. After a few weeks, winter set in and the terrain was covered in snow. By March the following year as winter lifted, only one remained - Argentinean explorer and photographer Diego Azubel, who continued to trek alone for another nine months arriving at the East China sea at the end of the following year.&nb

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