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Across Huangya valley from high on the wall
 

This photo and this one show the morning's section very well indeed - and complement each other nicely.

This is probably the most interesting of the two, as it really does take in almost all of the Wall we walked that morning. Fix your eyes on the top-right quadrant, where a distant grey line curves gently upwards before stopping against the mountain on the right. Well, that's Wall, and the bottom of the curve is where I was standing when I took this picture. The grey fuzzy patch underneath it is this, ie that's where we started. From there the Wall is obscured by mountains, but you can trace a lot of our route to the path back down to the Barracks. Note the bridge at the bottom of the path, the closest end of which can be seen in this photo.

Curious thing: if you'd asked me where this photo was taken from, I'd probably have said "at the lookout at the very top of the icy stairs" - except that can't be right, because this shot occurs earlier on the film than ones I took at the bottom of the icy stairs, before ascending (eg this one). Therefore I reckon this was taken at the bottom of the icy stairs, not the top, which raises the question "what was the view at the top of the icy stairs, and could you see the wall?". Answers on a postcard, please.

 
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