William, the Wildest Wall tour guide there ever was!

William, The wild wall guy!

William taking a quick break before he led us to the top of the Rams Horn

Wild Will, our tour guide, was one of the most knowledgeable tour guide that we had the whole trip, especially about the Great Wall of China which he, by him self, hiked the whole two thousand four hundred and seventy kilometers. From that adventure, William Lindesay wrote and had published a book called “Alone on the Great wall”, a tale about his long journey documenting the wall. William then focused his studies on the Beijing area Ming dynasty great wall in 1994.

After his long journey and much research on the Beijing area great wall, William became focused on cleaning the area up, which was deteriorating with much garbage and pollution, which William got the Friendship medal from the Chinese Government on their national holiday! After that, William set up an organization named, “International Friends of the Great Wall”, which helped preserve the “National Relics” of Chinese heritage, as in the Great Wall of China.

William Lindesay has made many contributions to many different areas of research on the Great Wall, such as National Geographic traveler and The Asia Wall Street Journal. He has even been named in the top fifty places to go in your lifetime, a very prestigious award if you ask any one. William has not only been in magazines and news articles, but also does live lectures for many different bodies. He has done them for The Explorers club in New York City, as well as many different universities all over the world.

The Explorers Club document of appreciation to William for his lectures

William was given a very prestigious award by the Queen of England called the “Officer, Order of the British Empire” for his preservation of the Beijing area great wall.

William is now doing research and writing his new project, the national geographic Special called, “The Wall of Two Williams”, a documentary explaining and comparing his trip along the great wall, to William Giles, the person who walked the great wall in 1918.

William is still working on preserving the area of the Great wall the Mojoers went on, as well as much more. He is also taking people on tours along the Wild Wall, called that for it being very untouched wildly overgrown.

The Wild part of The Wild Wall

Sources for information

Lindsay, William. "My Biography." Welcome to Wild Wall. Feb. 2007. Web. .