Everything is impossible
You cannot conceive of the sheer scale of the Great Wall until you stand on it and try to picture the amount of labour required to build it. Then it hits you. You look down the shale-covered slopes below, down to the village 2Km away; you look out along the ridges, in to the mist where the wall fades from view; you feel the very weight of the stones beneath you. Then it really hits you - but still you cannot take it all in.
Estimates for the Wall's overall length range between 2400Km (1500mi) to 6000Km (4000mi). The construction effort took 10 years and around 800,000 people. 180 million cubic metres of earth and stone went into it. We walked about 10Km of it and just that section was enough to fill our senses for weeks. It was a truly life-enhancing, calf-muscle straining, camera-filling experience. With the sun on our backs and a warm wind wrapped around us, the day went too fast, too soon. But we loved every minute of it.
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