Monday, May 12, 2014

Climbing Walls in China

NEVER in my life did I think I would see this place with my own eyes or walk the steps with my own feet!  
And I am so glad to have climbed the entire section of the Badaling area.

I was feeling  so proud of myself when I realized that a 90 year old woman and her 70-something year old son had effortlessly passed me up as I took a short breather and rest stop along watchtower #4.

 I tried to imagine smoke signals and horsemen riding up and down the walls; and, boy are they steep!  There is even a place inscribed in ANCIENT Chinese that says "utmost danger".

Joining Ghangis Kubla Kan, Attila the Hun as wall climbers are Lupe, Xiao Liang and me!

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