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Walking the Wall
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Walking the Wall follows the 3000 kilometre hiking journey of Brendan Fletcher and Emma Nicholas along the Great Wall of China.
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Recent Posts
Walking for a Cause
Emma and Olivia Newton-John Around this time last year, when Brendan and I were struggling to climb impossible slopes, fighting our way through brush and brambles, and sweating through blistering hot afternoons, I swore to myself, on more than one oc...
The End of the Line
We’ve never been any good at bringing things to a close. We’ll put off a big decision until the final moment. We’ll hem and haw and shuffle our feet in the dirt before saying good-bye. We left organising our flight out of Beijing – during...
Wall Angels, Beijing Municipality and Hebei Province
Putting together our final episode of Wall Angels was a fun but sad experience. Fun, because we got to relive those times, and sad because we know there won’t be any more Wall Angels for us for a while. If we thought Shanxi and Shaanxi were diffic...
Guang Guang, Beijing Municipality and Hebei Province
Well, we’ve rambled our way across our final jurisdictions, Hebei province and Beijing municipality. These eastern areas we hiked through were different in many ways from the western provinces - more populous, greener, much more mountainous....
The Homestretch
Brendan sniffing the sea air You'd think that after more than 3500 kilometres, we'd have seen about everything there is to see on the wall. It's certainly true that not everything is as fresh as it once was, and we're very tired and ready to go hom...
Shanhaiguan, Here We Come
After over a year of walking and countless arguments about which way to go, the end is actually in sight. Literally!!! Tomorrow, Saturday July 7, 2007 (7/7/07), we will reach Old Dragon's Head at Shanhaiguan and conclude our Walking the Wall advent...
