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David, Jason and I were meet in the lobby of November 15th, it is a courter yard house, traditional house right behind the Jingshan park where ancient emperor visits often, Old city Hutongs remind us of the early Yuan Dynasty who begin to build hutong and start to take Beijing as capital. We drove two and half hour to the foot of the wall.

and stopped in the yard of my favorite farmhouse, my second home.

We start hiking at about 10:00 am in the morning.

We hiked to the highest tower 'North tower'

'The cow corner'

Bushes on the wall

Natural rocks was part of the wall

The north tower

The sun warm the corner of the tower and make us lazy there

The mountain and rock which are much older then the wall are now part of the wall

When the rock become the lower part of the wall, workers only need to put bricks on

The millions of years old rock stands by the side of the great wall

The castle is behind another tower

The big rock is part of the wall

Some of the wall goes narrow due to rigged summit

The castle in the snow

The north tower in the door way

Each beacon tower is different, they can have two small window

The rock can be the base of the wall and the rock can come out from the wall

The stone to let water flow out

The 70 degree slope

The mountains out of a door

The small budala palace, budala palace of the capital building of Tibet

The small 'west fence' village

The farm house to spend the night.

The stone grind to make powder from wheat

Mud bed heating system.

Corn is the major food at the foot of the great wall

A giant eagle flying facing upword, the slope on the head right side is about 80 degree.

David and I was happy in front of the 'Heaven's ladder' which goes very narrow, we can touch the two sides of the wall at the same time. we put our feet carefully on the stone stair.

On the wing of 'Eagle fly facing upward' we use rope to have something to grasp.

The heaven above the 'heaven ladder' located on a huge rock, cliff there could kill people who are not careful.

The root has sat in the wall firmly, it must me over half a century old, it is so strong that I use it to tie rope.

Jason was climbing with the help of old root and rope

This tower was on a huge rock, workers just need to build along the rock.

Another corner of the great wall where modern poet wrote poem on the wall.

The poem and the 85 degree wall, the huge shaped rock may fall at any time. The poem wrote:

'The eagles get worried when they saw the beacon tower of the great wall at Jiankou'

'It seems we have been in the heaven of the ninth layer'

'When we look down upon the deep valley where bird sings'

'It is white peach flower and green willow all over'

written On April 4th, 2004.

The door and wall around left, the roof has gone.

The steepest part of the wall is 85 degree, huge rocks will fall at any time, we walked an side path, it is surely out of Janson and David's limit and I don't want to take any risk too.

The side track is by the steep slope. however many trees are there and help us go through without big risk.

What David said the dragon.

These trees could have grown bigger during the last 600 years, however they stay lower, I believe these kind of trees can never grow bigger, cause I saw dead trees when it was not too big.

The peaceful small track take up back to 'west fence village'.