The Great Wall of China: Hiking & Camping!
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2019
- The two days we spent exploring remote portions of The Great Wall were some of the most awe-inspiring, challenging and beautiful days of our 21 days in China! We started day one on the Jiankou portion of the wall and then to the Huanghuacheng that night. We hiked in the dark and set up a tent to camp on the wall, waking up the next morning to gorgeous songs of bugs and wind passing through the mist the next morning. After packing up the camp site, we hiked the Huanghuacheng section for the rest of the day. I highly recommend visiting these gorgeous pieces of the wall and experiencing history far from tourists. It's truly unforgettable.
The guide we hired is from www.greatwall-hike.com/ not sponsored Do not attempt to do this hike without a guide!
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I just cant imagine how the workers had to climb the mountain and brought all the bricks up there to built the great wall...how the warriors had to go up there real fast when enemies came to attack...just unimaginable....salut to the ancient chinese
?? That's not how the Great Wall works. The Great Wall is essentially an e-mail service from 200 BC. There are only a few locations that an invasion could access Northern China. If an invasion was detected, the nearest pyre would be lit. Then, the soldier at the 2nd pyre would light his pyre, letting the soldier at the 3rd pyre light his pyre, then the 4th, etc.
This system of pyres being lit would very quickly travel to the capital in Western China, allowing the central government to mobilize forces weeks earlier than possible.
jyashin I can said what jyashin describe is absolutely correct! And in additional, the tower is the barricade for the watchmen tower. After the pyre is lit, the soldier will barricade themselves, basically fending themselves till reinforcement arrive from the nearest responsed barrack.
You can see from the video, when Claire enter the tower from the stair, from outer portion of the tower, she need to bend down to enter, and the entry only allow single soldier/person at a time.
The tactic was simple, enemy spotted, if they attempt to breach, soldier barricade themselves, fight off them from the high section of the wall, if wall breach, attempt to retreat to higher section of the wall, fight again, if breach, retreat to tower, barrride, and defend, slaughter whoever came through the entry. The soldier will have supply stored in the tower which normally will last them for months, till help arrive. Like Attila, Alan or goths, the northern invader are compromise of marauding horde, they attack, pillage, enslave, rob whatever they can, then they will ride back across the gobi dessert. The walls function are to stop these incursion.
In the ancient time the people were huge and strong...they are able to do it with their strength and most importantly the genius of great China...
@@jyashin What you said is WatchTower, and it is only a part of The Great Wall.
If they want send message, only need build towers on the top of mountains, but why build those wall???
@@linsu9376 didn't expect to see you here. Hello.
How my grandparents describe their walk to school in their day
😂😂
When she got emotional, I felt that. To be able to be there, to actually touch something so ancient and still marvelous. It would be overwhelming. To imagine what it was like to build it. It's so incredible.
Time stamp ?
Its just a damn rock
@@samayra8488 @08:00
As I’m researching and studying about it I always want to climb the ruin abandoned part so much. I only went there once at tourist section. It was in deed an awesome experience. When she cried I feel that too.
@@AsifAnsari-nn8kk built in thousand years ago in the middle of fking mountain with the length of Japan side(imagine how long?).Meanwhile your ancestor probably live in cave.Btw i am not Chinese I am German thank you
Thanks Claire for a wonderful video. I am 66 years old and have been to China once, passing through on my way back from the Philippines. I have always wanted to visit the Great Wall for several reasons. It represents China in a time when they probably were the Superior Nation on the entire planet. While they dined on dainties prepared throughout an organized empire, unwashed Europeans ate with their hands. Julius Caesar enjoyed wearing a crimson silk tunic, and many of the garments of later Popes were filled with silk. China represents Intellect, culture, power, harmony, and fear of change. Today people still marvel at the wall built on the backs of countless peasants, soldiers, and prisoners who had no real appreciation for it. They only endured the daily grind. And the last word is the best. The Chinese have endured the unfolding of hundreds of centuries with great patience. I don't think them war like, as much as I think of them minding their principalities. They are most huge in population, but so peaceful in person. I suppose rather than fear them, we should study them and understand mankind over time in a single place always being. The views are superb and I really enjoyed the video. I hope many things wonderful come for you and your life friend. Peace and love, and being a Christian... peace and love in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!!
希望您有机会来中国旅游！
I am nearly 60 yrs old now. When I was at your age, foreigners were not allowed to go on the Great Wall that was not opened for visit because of obvious reasons. Your video is short of breathtaking. Such a historic monument! And you camped on it! Wow! I can only say thank you for sharing this experience of yours. Thank you.
BS
@@MT99699 ??
After this video, China will start banning white people from the wall
still not too late m8 you can still do it
@@sammyso4940 what are you saying?
"One who fails to reach the Great Wall is not a hero", and you two got it!
Trump: alright, I will make one myself
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不到长城非好汉
I climbed this in my 20s with my family and it was epic. Going up was hard but coming down was even harder. My arms and legs were just shaking the whole time.
From this we can imagine the majesty of the Beijing City Wall, 20 meters -30 meters high, gear-like structure, there are 4-5 layers of archery buildings on the city walls. In ancient Beijing, it was not like resisting the human army, as if used to resist (The Lord of the Rings) monsters. Unfortunately, the Communist Party was demolished
Wow
When you think about the total length of different sections of Great Wall is 21,196km, it's just unbelievable. It takes generations and multiple dynasties effort to build this. Thank you for letting us see the more ancient and less restored part of the Great Wall. It's eye opening
Now image hundreds and even thousands of years ago how terribly difficult it is to build such a thing.
Lives were cheap and expendable at that time.
Chin First Emperor built the wall 2200 years ago. Thirty thousand workers died. Most during the winter storm.
@@profriday yea, thats why westerner came to asia and do slave business
@@profriday It was built to defend the northern invaders, without the wall more people could die, you can't say it's a wrong decision to build
@@profriday They still are in today's China.
I cannot imagine how people build this Great Wall in the mountain long long ago without technology...
W. David who told u we have not technology in old age ?
@@Northnomad9716it's not the technolgy I meant in that centry
Originated from command of emperor, at the cost of thousands of ancient chinese life.
Because the ancient Chinese used lives to compensate technology
it was to defend the empire and their wives/kids. just like always how men are in other history.
people say it spent too many lives of builders.
but what they do is no difference to soldiers.
they protect the land and families,
it is something to respect not something to talk shits on.
those of you who think that way has no respect to ancestors.
Massive RESPECT for the people who built this.
The 400,000 ish slaves?
@@niqziyt9671why not？ You only pay respect to Kings ？
In my first semester at college, I went for a hike from Jiankou to Mutianyu with 3 friends. We spent about half a day to finish. That experience was my closet to death. We had a large portion of the path with only a width of two bricks to set foot on. You have bushes on one side and the cliff on the other. I also remember a point you have to hold an iron bar to swing your body over the cliff. We completely stopped talking in the last few hours as a result of fatigue, fear, and stress. We run out of water and food, but we finally made it to the Mutianyu.
Omg I did the same ! I was with an other tourist .. it was incredible !! 😊 For me the stress part was to picks the correct bus from Beijing to there😅
I've watched so many videos about the great wall but this is the best so far 🤝👍
As a Beijinger, I can tell you that Jiankou is definitely the most dangerous part of the Great Wall in Beijing, and it will be repaired according to the latest protection plan. So if anyone who are willing to feel the rough wildness of ancient China and touch the original beauty of the Great Wall, take an action now!
大概啥时候修复？
My family and I had the pleasure to visiting China about ten years ago and one of our most unique ventures while there was going to the Great Wall of China and walk some of the passage ways. Your video brought back many memories about how much of the wall has broken down into pieces making not an easy hike through some of the area. Even then it was amazing to see and realize that here we were walking along some of the passage ways on the Great Wall of China. To see in person is so amazing that there no way any photos or videos can show all there is to see. To even try and conceive how it was even possible to build something as this. To see the wall going through the mountain ways up and down the hills and at times some appearing to be going into the clouds way up high as if it was a passage way into Heaven. It really is one of the most unique wonders of the world! Thanks for sharing your video.
Lies again? Heineken Carlsberg
Watching videos like this, and walking every inch of it, you are truly reminded that that bloody thing is thousands of miles long, standing atop of mountains, and it's been there for thousands of years! Incredible!
While hikers getting exhausted by climbing jus imagine how much energy n effort paid by workers... Wonderful will power and determination... absolutely insane 👏👏
The will power of our ancestors is so powerful.
Not really. They were enslaved by the emperor to build and many died there, their bodies were burried as the foundation of the wall
linchen xu in past years,great achievement was always built by slaves .there is nothing wrong
@@user-hz9fe6gb2x nobody said it was wrong. Don't need to get so defensive 兄弟，让世界看中国人的心胸宽阔，海纳百川而不是斤斤计较，思想狭隘
linchen xu 海纳百川不是自我贬低，他们不会觉得你谦虚的，真的。古代封建社会向来都是不把平民当人看的，不管哪个国家。是用平民的血泪铸成的耀眼的文化，能留下什么一直存在能被后世敬仰的东西，便可称为伟大。这是中国的一个招牌。无论如何，这是值得骄傲的一件事，我们作为后人，没资格替前辈谦虚
linchen xu 对你个人，可以自谦，但是对于国家，没必要像小粉红一样事事中国第一，反对就是汉奸。但你在往另一个极端走。需要客观，在承认存在问题的同时起码应该为自己国家和文化感到骄傲并且让他们看到你的骄傲，这本值得骄傲。这才是海纳百川
It makes remembering my last climb to the wall in 2008 with my family. That’s more than a decade ago so much is changed. We maybe never going up there again, but it marks our life.
The Great Wall of China is so stunning, thank you so much for sharing this.
I am Chinese. You are doing very well. There are a lot of Chinese people who don't have this quality. But I have to say that this has a lot to do with their level of education. This situation is also improving now, and the new generation is paying more and more attention to environmental issues. So, welcome to visit China.
I won't climb that 85 degree thing, I have wife and kids they need me.
Yeah you put yours priority right. Family always comes first.
hahaha
Ha-ha! Insurance companies think it looks like suicide!
agreed
With ropes and enough safety equipment, I'll do that. Bare handed? no no no
So dangerous hiking with camera at the wreckage of the wall and you all nail it, congratulation that was epic. And the scenery without back ground music was so stunning, we could felt it too.
I think GoPro works
I live there and have been to the Great Wall many times, and your video just gave me the feeling that I have never been there before, and I have never appreciated the beauty of the Wall like it is now. Thank you!
Thank you, Claire, for sharing your respects for the privilege of walking what I think is sacred grounds. 'When Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered construction of the Great Wall around 221 B.C., the labor force that built the wall was made up largely of soldiers and convicts. It is said that as many as *400,000 people died during the wall's construction; many of these workers were buried within the wall itself.'
LOVE YOU CLAIRE! Love watching you grow daily! You da best!
I got cramps in my legs just seeing this... and I got panicked when she said my whole body is shaking.. I don't know but I was able to feel it.... scariest....
I have to give it to you Claire and Justin - you sure have courage and determination. There are just so many incredible places to see and things to do in China. My chinese wife and I have visited many places already over the last 14 years and will no doubt travel and experience very many more in the future. It is truly an amazing country.
This video brings me back to the long history. I can even imagine my ancient fathers guarding in the cold windy winter...
Thank you so much.
This is incredible, most people that I've seen haven't even gotten anywhere close to the crumbling ruins. Yet there you are, daring what they wouldn't. Amazing 🤗
I AM THE TWO MILLIONTH VIEWER. THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL VIDEO.
As a Chinese, I have never been to the Great Wall, and I am busy with my livelihood every day. After watching your video, my favorite part is the ocean of Forest
如果有一个人摔倒了怎么办？下面一排人不就没了
太恐怖了🤔
Make time to visit places like these. Life is too short to be a slave to work.
this is amazing, most of Chinese haven't been there but you did it.
i have been to a replica one, my dad tricked me to it becoz i wanted to go, sadly i still haven't meet the real one
T Jack hope u see one day~
我都没去过，我哭，看着好美
爬野长城是违法的，还容易成避雷针，如果大家都去爬，只能叫土城了
Yes
wow，the real Great Wall, not the commercial Great Wall, amazing scenery. It's said you can hear historical echo on the Great Wall at night.......
That will be campers banging at night.
D D lol you funny little *ss
@@dduay 😂😂😂😂😂😂
LMAO……
@@dduay LMAO
Welcome to China
Claire, this was absolutely incredible to watch! You and Justin are so brave to traverse those steep inclines! And the scenery you captured was breathtaking! You truly captured the majesty of the Great Wall. I would've cried, too, knowing that I got to touch and explore such a pivotal piece of history and architecture! Thank you for sharing the beauty of China with us!
One of the best Wall vids Ive seen, that shot at 13:10 is just jawdropping. Basically you're not walking a wall so much as climbing a mountain -can't believe you did that with baggage and holding a camera. Some of the most vertiginous shots throughout this. Thankyou so much!
What an amazing experience so beautifully captured!! If I ever have a life experience to go to China, this is exactly how I would want to experience it! Having the Great Wall of China to myself would be incredible!
不要黄金周（5.1，10.1）来哈，人多到让你崩溃。
@@partyhu Good to know! Thanks for the information.
@@partyhu 她们走的这个路段旅游应该是不开放的吧，太危险了 靠
@@snowwj6006 对啊，不开放，野长城。而且其实本身违法，不过民不举管不究。散装游客自己去玩也没人管。
欢迎来中国
This is by far the best footage about the Great Wall I have ever seen.
Claire should have 1,000,000 plus subscribers. Nearly a million views on her vids and people are not subscribing. Any video that I watch until the end, I subscribe. These are wonderful videos, with breathtaking views, that I will never experience, so I appreciate her courage and for sharing these amazing times and moments with us.
The words "Sheer Willpower and Determination" straight into my mind, to the ancient builders and the new climbers.
Yeah, there's no "what if something happens" well if that happens, keep building
What an experience guys! We feel like we're right there with you. We can see how you would be completely overwhelmed. This is too awesome. I bet you guys were destroyed the next day. The story of how you were able to pee is the best! Beautiful video.
Great Wall is really great when I firstly saw her. I can not imagine how it was built. Thanks for your vedio!
Beautiful but very thrilling great wall of China... Love and repsect for them from 🇵🇰
I was fortunate enough to have hiked that wall with my friends not too long ago. We hiked the opposite direction of the heaven staircase for about 20km or so to the red tower in the direction of Mutainyu. I thought I was going to die that day and wondered if the Red Cross could airlift me out of there. It is a beast and the fact that you did it shows alot about your character. Experiencing Jiankou is something out of this world. Absolutely breathtaking as well as dangerous. Videos still fail to capture the terror those steep walls instill in you. Definately not a hike for the fainthearted that's for sure! Well done!
I used to live in Beijing for 4 years and i have only been to the most popular part of The Great Wall where a lot of ppl go to and i could never imagine it could be this amazing.
Thank you for experiencing, filming, uploading and sharing with us.
didnt realise that we have such a splendid heritage in my country thank you Claire
Claire, you are my Idol. I have extremely respect to you after watching this and am amazed of your courage doing this. I would like to hug you ! Milan
It is so incredible to visit ancient heritage site and to knew about them .
Claire, I sincerely thank you for making this video. I have to say that you have done something that not many people have attempted. Hiking the unrestored part of the Great wall of China.
Which makes your video unique. Once again, thank you for showing us its beauty.
A.m.a.z.i.n.g!!!!! My 12-year-old loved it. Great choice of wall section to explore. Reclaimed by nature. To be walking where history was made. Awesome. Thank you. Lovely video.
I am terrified of height, totally admire you, even looking at the amazing clips I feel a bit dizzy. Thank you so much for sharing. Forwarded to friends to watch as well.
Wow, I never saw these portion of the Grate Wall! It's hard to imagine how they were built more than 2000 years ago.
The early wall sections were built out of stone or earth. The brick sections that we're familiar with were built were built 400-750 years ago during the Ming Dynasty. A number of sections within easy access of tourists have now been renovated. A bit of a shame in many ways. Have a look at the wiki article.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
What an incredible video, with amazing music and just raw and honest emotions. Love it!
One of the best travel videos I've seen in recent times. Breathtaking visuals. So much risk and worth the effort. Walking and climbing with the selfie stick...that again was giving me goosebumps.
Guys, thanks for sharing this awesome video with the world
(The best part is no semi-clad women running around in slow motion)
The best travel show on the Great Walls. Thanks, what a majestic place.
this is one of the best vlogs ever of a tour of the great wall of china and an amazing experience even to jut watch it! thanks for letting us catch a glimpse of this wonderfully special journey!
This Great Wall unifies us as Chinese thousands of years ago and it will continue to serve the purpose. Thank you for sharing such magnificent view on the wall.
respect to the ancestors.
You guys are great. Thanks for introducing me to what extent our ancestors were willing to go in order to keep the peace.
Congratulations on yet another great adventurous video, I enjoyed watching very much 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️I really admire you guys' tenacity and took the non tourist option of visiting the Great Wall.
Amazing adventures.. one of amazing place to visit. Knowing those wall still stand strong after 2000 years time. Cant imagine how those ancient people build such wall, amazing
This is so beautiful! I admire your courage to climb such a vertical wall and you get the most beautiful scenery of the great wall~
stunning! Thank you Claire for showing us this
this is truly the miracle. thank you for showing this to the world. welcome to China
Hi Claire, I just found your video and had already watched two videos, I have to say thank you for making so wonderful videos about China, As a Chinese I appreciate it very much! Thank you!!
I just want to let you guys know how much I have been enjoying watching these amazing travel videos. I randomly came across the one that you guys filmed in Shanghai, which’s my hometown! And I’m in the middle of my finals study period for my law school finals, these videos lifted up my mood a lot! Sending love to you!
I hope you did well 😊 you sparkle 💖✨ sending love is what life is about ☺💖🙏
May i ask a question about the wall?
As a Chinese，when I'm watching this vlog，I sunddenly figure this country's history as long as the great wall，but I don't know a lot，and how small I am（sorry for my poor English...）
Ze Zhang You should be more confident! English not your first language,you did a good job ！
You are great ! You are bilingual! Better than most native English speakers .
好像爬野长城是违法的，且不论违不违法，这种地方前不着村后不着店，救援困难，这也是对自己生命的不负责
鲲哥 有多少歪果仁走岔路探险 探险求刺激就算了 最怕是有动机不良目的不明的歪果仁故意进入不刻进的地方测量去了。幻想力丰富吧 国家安全意识驱使的 不怕一万 就怕万一
讲英语别说自己英语差在老外看来很奇怪
None fear level. You guys are amazing 👏 ❤
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That's wonderful. Thank you for recording all this. You took me to an outrageous place. I'll be waiting for more hikes👍🏼✌️
thanks Claire for sharing this exclusive insight to the hardship and beauty of the Great Wall.........
Wowwee awesome vid, I always wanted to go see the great wall but this has solidified it on my bucket list, and not do just the touristy day trip. Thanks.
thank you for being so respectful and loving towards China and its culture.
Amazing capture. You inspired me here Clair. The take was so scary even on just watching here. I will do this one day, I really hope so. Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!
That was freaking awesome! very nicely captured.
You have some of the best aerial shooting clips in this video, and the background music just makes the wall more magnificent 😃😃😃. Love your work👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
wah, as a Chinese, i have never see such amazing scene before, thank you to bring the view to the whole world.
Thank you for capturing your epic adventure!! Feels like I travelled to China from my living room couch.
Oh my god, I only visited the touristy sections and your video makes me wanna go to these remote portions, it already shocked me through your video
That looks absolutely amazing Claire! What an experience!
I really like the way you speak!! And what an adventure that was walking on the steep stone steps😐. Thank you for the post.
Wow no amount of words I can type to describe your video.. only things that comes to mind is magnificent ✨
Can't stop watching your videos. I absolutely love this
this video really really worth to click the like button from my side. great job~!
This was beautiful to see....thanks for filming it. The drone footage was great. You really shared how special it is,
Thanks for showing with this!! Amazing!
without a local guide, these wild great walls could get people killed, all it takes is a loose brick from two thousand years ago.
lol
go following the outdoor tracks.
like foooooot.com.
Exactly. And most of chance you would die from a brick made in Ming Dynasty, about 500 years ago.
it’s fun though
the current great wall was around couple of hundreds years old (Ming Dynasty). Still it is very dangerous.
Of all the "foreigner goes to the great wall" videos, yours is my favorite. Just have to admit it. Much less blinking to the camera and more real hiking. The urinating part is great.
I love this trip. I had to watch three episodes without a break while i was sweating on my crosttrainer, I could feel how you both sweated. ;D
OMG😮. How difficult it is.Hands off to you guys for completing that difficulty one. 😇 Now,I was thinking about those workers who build it. 😮😍💥
Crazy!!!You guys did so great job!! Please keep on doing this kind of video!
Wow ... this is a great adventure.
Love the way itself looks, it's so inspiring
Thank you for making this video. No matter how difficult it was climbing the steps, it would still be much easier than scaling the steep hills that an invading force had to do (with armour and no height advantage, too). A small climb like this and your personal doco style certainly gives an appreciation of the grandeur and ambition of this engineering feat. Alas, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link....
Wow this is amazing! Claire Thanks for showing us the magnificent view of great wall! I have been to Badaling and Huanghualing great walls. Yours is way more exciting and beautiful! Even for a Chinese people, I find your exploration of great wall is amazing amazing!
absolutely amazing!
Such a picturesque scene at 13:10 that alone would make hours and hours of hiking worthwhile
I could see myself just sitting there, gazing out into the sea of fog in awe while I soak in the truly breathtaking sight
Hello Claire, thank you for this video. My palm and feet are wet sweating watching this video. Went to Great wall of china but tri Muntianyu gate. Watching your video was like!! Im specless.. ive cred! Thanks. Such a rewarded experience!
absolutely gorgeous scene
This is the first time for me to look at the real great wall from this great video.
I did a hike from Jiankou to the Mutianyu section of the wall a couple years ago. This really takes me back to one of the worst and also best hikes of my life. Worst, because I thought I was going to die on atleast 6 occasions. The heavenly stairs were one of those times. We spent about 28 hours on the wall with a 6 hour sleep session in between.
Can't wait to go back and experience a different section of it
You’re so thoughtful and respected to Chinese history! The video is amazing, thanks for sharing