Max Pearson
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
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It also served as a road, linking hill forts in mountainous areas and making it easier to deploy soldiers to trouble spots quickly.
I began to notice that different parts of the world looked different, and they were built differently.
I learned that different armies had built sections over time, and I began to think, I bet no one has ever walked along the whole thing before.
And I thought, if I could do that, and document what I see, well, that would be a really meaningful contribution to our nation's history.
Also, the first complete set of footprints along it would be mine.
Just thinking about it made my heart beat faster.
Leaving his wife and their young baby behind, Yao Huidong set off with an old school friend, Wu Deyu, in May 1984.
They started on the east coast at Shanghai Pass.
Before long, they were joined by another wall enthusiast, Zhang Yuanhua, on what was to become an epic journey for all three of them.
We gradually got used to it.
But every day we endured great fatigue and thirst, and in the winter, freezing temperatures.
But looking back, the hardest part was psychological.
It was the same monotonous drill every day.
Plus, we were three young men in our 20s, spending every day together for more than 500 days.
Think about it, even a loving couple don't spend that much time together.
It makes you a bit crazy at times.
Wu Deyu was a poet and had an artistic temperament.
Zhang Yuanhua came from a military family.
He had a soldier's character, which was very obvious.
I was somewhere in the middle.
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