The Freedom Team hikers near the Ox Horn bend on the Jiankou ... of the Great Wall. My fellow hikers are largely outliers in China. Old Sun once told me that Chinese tend to find hiking as sport ...

Originally built in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and restored in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Jiankou Great Wall connects to the Mutianyu Great Wall to the east and the Huanghuacheng Great Wall ...

While a remote part of the Great Wall may soon attract more visitors, it remains a striking reminder of the centuries that shaped not only the fortification, but China itself. Future of the Past ...