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Runner exposes great crumbling wall of China

WILLIAM LINDESAY, the Briton who in 1987 became the first foreigner to run the length of the Great Wall of China, is putting the finishing touches to an almost equally ambitious project.

His exhibition of photographs of the Great Wall at the Beijing Capital Museum in January, titled Great Wall Revisited, will show the changes wrought in the past century by Man and Nature.
Read entire article at Times Online (UK)