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Old 04-18-2008, 01:19 AM
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Sharing some recent photos from chinese forum .

Start climbing from first tower of east Weiziyu. The coordinates of first tower is supposed at 40° 7'35.29"N 119°29'47.09"E.
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Standing between first and second towers, look back the first tower, Weiziyu locates below valley .
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Looking ahead, the second tower appears.
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Reached the third tower, a inner GW tower on top of remote hill is visible , the inner stand alone tower is supposed at 40° 7'57.06"N 119°30'47.71"E.
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Passed the third tower and look back remote towers and mountains at west of Weiziyu , the third tower is forground .
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The fourth tower is in front .
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A short wall between the fourth and fifth towers.
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The whole picture beneath inner stand alone tower is seen ,the picture was supposed to be took at 40° 8'0.39"N 119°30'28.11"E.
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Reached stand alone tower , the outside picture of stand alone tower.
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Inside of stand alone tower.
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View down to southeast from stand alone tower , the way to DaXuikou is seen.
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View down to west from stand alone tower, the first five towers of east Weiziyu are visible,the fifth tower on rightmost remained two piece of wall only.
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View north from stand alone tower , the sixth tower along with short wall locate between hills,the sixth tower is supposed at
40° 8'22.57"N 119°30'20.58"E.
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Zoom in the sixth tower.
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Reached the sixth tower , outside picture.
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Collapsed inside of the sixth tower.
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The short wall beside the sixth tower.
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It seems they hiked to the third tower and then continued to the stand alone tower. From there they climbed to the 6th tower. Is that correct?

Did they use any special climbing equipment? From the third tower and further north the climb is VERY difficult, but it seems they didn't follow the wall and instead hiked to the stand alone tower.
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It seems they hiked to the third tower and then continued to the stand alone tower. From there they climbed to the 6th tower. Is that correct?

Did they use any special climbing equipment? From the third tower and further north the climb is VERY difficult, but it seems they didn't follow the wall and instead hiked to the stand alone tower.
They finished climbing of first five towers first day , and camped at valley
(40° 7'50.36"N 119°30'33.43"E) i guessed .
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They climbed to stand alone tower on morning of second day , then climbed to the sixth tower . It is hard to find what equipment they brought from follow picture , they didn't talk too much about the path they took.
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I made a path of GW of east of Weiziyu as attached file , you might refer it.
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Can you please give me the link to the thread on the chinese forum? I would like to see all the photos.

There's a short section behind this cliff: 40° 7'43.54"N 119°29'53.66"E

The third tower is at the end of the wall so it must be around here: 40° 7'52.11"N 119°29'51.16"E.

The wall continues to the north/northwest of here. Based on my own observations while visiting I don't believe there is any wall here: 40° 7'53.53"N 119°30'7.28"E
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Can you please give me the link to the thread on the chinese forum? I would like to see all the photos.
Three thead links as following including Huachangyu ,they planed to climb from Weiziyu to Huachangyu , due to weather change cool suddently , after finished visit on the sixsth tower of Weiziyu , then go to Huachangyu directly .
http://www.thegreatwall.com.cn/phpbb...8692&forumid=1
http://www.thegreatwall.com.cn/phpbb...8694&forumid=1
http://www.thegreatwall.com.cn/phpbb...8700&forumid=1


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There's a short section behind this cliff: 40° 7'43.54"N 119°29'53.66"E

The third tower is at the end of the wall so it must be around here: 40° 7'52.11"N 119°29'51.16"E.

The wall continues to the north/northwest of here. Based on my own observations while visiting I don't believe there is any wall here: 40° 7'53.53"N 119°30'7.28"E
The middle section i made is guess , the towers position you thought could be corrected ,as i said before, people in chinese forum don't like to use GE in discussion about GW , so all need to be guessed by ourself.
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Three thead links as following including Huachangyu ,they planed to climb from Weiziyu to Huachangyu , due to weather change cool suddently , after finished visit on the sixsth tower of Weiziyu , then go to Huachangyu directly .
http://www.thegreatwall.com.cn/phpbb...8692&forumid=1
http://www.thegreatwall.com.cn/phpbb...8694&forumid=1
http://www.thegreatwall.com.cn/phpbb...8700&forumid=1

The middle section i made is guess , the towers position you thought could be corrected ,as i said before, people in chinese forum don't like to use GE in discussion about GW , so all need to be guessed by ourself.

Thank you that looks very interesting. From the picture it seems they hiked trough the mountains from Weiziyu towards Huachangyu.

This is the view towards Huachangyu taken from the other side of the valley, so they must have passed trough the mountains.

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It's a dangerous and very difficult area so it would be very interesting to see their GPS trek if they used GPS.
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Thank you that looks very interesting. From the picture it seems they hiked trough the mountains from Weiziyu towards Huachangyu.

This is the view towards Huachangyu taken from the other side of the valley, so they must have passed trough the mountains.

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I am pleased you like it . They did changed their plan and the picture above was took at the sixth tower around are for sure

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It's a dangerous and very difficult area so it would be very interesting to see their GPS trek if they used GPS.
Due to text and picture can be uploaded to chinese forum only , it might be the reason why they didn't post any GPS related information for ten years.
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They did changed their plan and the picture above was took at the sixth tower around are for sure
Then they must carry a very big tele lens

The photos shows the two towers in this area (40° 9'46.34"N 119°31'15.69"E) with Yiyuankou/Banchangyu in the background. Tower six is located approx. 100 meters higher than the last Huachangyu tower and that does not seem to match the photo. More likely the photo is taken from around here (40° 9'5.72"N 119°30'23.71"E).

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Due to text and picture can be uploaded to chinese forum only , it might be the reason why they didn't post any GPS related information for ten years.
Do you mind asking them if they want to share their GPS data? If possible they could send it by email - that would be a very big help in planning our East Hebei Trek in September.
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Due to text and picture can be uploaded to chinese forum only , it might be the reason why they didn't post any GPS related information for ten years.
They could do it here!
I was thinking about a Chinese version of this forum for a long time (menues and so forth). I am sure the software supports multi-language use and I am sure we can find people to translate all the stuff.


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