Where are all the people?” a friend asks upon seeing my photos from a recent trip to China, where I hiked on the Great Wall ...

Books for Parents: The Great Wall: From Beginning to End by William Lindesay and Michael Yamashita (2007): The story of Lindesay’s hike along the entire Ming wall, from the Yellow Sea to the ...

Ordinarily I might have paused to catch my breath, but hiking up to the Great Wall of China is never an ordinary affair. Its silhouetted battlements running along the skyline spur me on.

To start the new year in a healthy way and to enjoy the great outdoors ... a flat and paved hike into the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Wildlife Drive. Walk along the Blackwater River ...

Just north of Beijing, you'll find one of the most famous monuments in the world: the Great Wall of China ... You can start hiking the Badaling portion at 6:40 a.m., and you must be down by ...