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The mission of a man walking on the Great Wall of China with a drone.
William Lindesay has been obsessed with the Great Wall of China for see in a school atlas as a child in England, and last year embarked on an epic journey to fulfill a lifetime ambition - to film the wall in full of air, he told the BBC Anna Jones about this quest.
The Great Wall is an amazing sight, and it deserves to be seen in its best light, said William at his home in Beijing.
Unable to shake his fascination with childhood, he moved to China to Wallasey on Merseyside in 1986 for the wall, and has been widely researched, written several books and earn an OBE for his work.
The Legend media filmed wall air by Lindesays.
The wall most tourists see today in places such as Badaling and Jinshanling, a trip easy day in Beijing, where stones and towers were restored several times, not always sympathetic.
But there is more to the wall than that, says William, who Geographer.
Before the tourist wall as people flock there were many other great walls of China.
Image copyright Getty Images Image Caption few tourists see more of the wall sections manicured near Beijing.
Sprawled in northern China and Mongolia, the creation of these walls spanned centuries and ruling dynasties oldest parts date back over 2000 years.
In some places, stone and imposing other earth piled up, walls have served variously roads, defensive fortresses, a communication network and even a fence to contain the migratory animals.
Over the past 30 years, I looked at all these walls, wherever possible, said William My travels have taken me all of northern China, even Mongolia.
In the 1990s, he and his wife, Wu Qi, bought a farm at the foot of the wall, and most weekends he would spend exploring there.
Image copyright William Lindesay Image Caption William Lindesay explores the wall since the mid-1980s.
Image copyright William Lindesay Legend of William and Wu Qi picture brought their children in the shadow of the Great Wall.
Photography has always been important, says William, if the images were just beautiful or architecture, design features made sense that I wanted to explain in my writing.
But in 2016, his son Jim and Tommy, suggested to see the wall of a whole new way, and began, as they put it, harass them buy a drone.
I was worried that they return to the first trip without the drone, William said he finally relented, and outcomes associated with a self publishing talent of his son, were out of this world.
Over the years, publishers and filmmakers came to me and said, we will do the Great Wall in the air, he said.
My typical answer is that if you have received millions and millions of dollars, and high-level contacts with the government and the armed forces, which control the sky, then forget it.
So, armed with their drone and a sponsor of the travel agency, the family spent a total of 60 days tracing the walls in 2016, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of William and his 30th year of life in China for Wall.
They started in July at the Old Dragon Head, the point where the dynasty of the era Ming Great Wall meets the sea to the east, and followed the west branch off to explore the old Zhao wall dating 300 BC, and hundreds of kilometers to the west wall of the Han dynasty.
Image copyright wild wall Image Caption Zhao Wall in Inner Mongolia has little to do with the image of most people of the Great Wall.
Image copyright William Lindesay Legend of William image and his son spent in Mongolia weeks camping for tracing the wall.
This was followed in August by a flight to Ulan Bator in Mongolia, where they camped out in nature while tracing what is marked on old maps as Gengis Khan wall.
William calculates the entire trip for being some 9,320 miles and 15.000km said the drone fly on these remote areas have given a whole new perspective on the ruins.
When you go to Mongolia, there is a wall that you can see just doesn t really turn you into the great daylight.
Early in the morning, just before sunset, if you're lucky, you get the light of the low sun angle, you can see the shadow of this structure meander, but streak straight across the steppe.
But from the air, it becomes a phenomenal show with the empty steppe, golden sunlight and the mound emphasized by the shadow very very dark.
Image copyright wild wall Image Caption discarded objects in the wall, like the 16 bomb rock century, give a clue to the people who built it.
In my mind all the shots the boys of the Great Wall of air, which is the more surprising because it seems so incredible, the wall in this completely empty landscape, you feel as if you are on the edge of Central Asia.
William is clearly fascinated by the role that the Wall has played in the history of the Chinese people see the air, he said, using an observer for the minds of its creators.
We see the twists and turns, and we ask, why does he twist and turn there Why did they drive along there, not down here.
The land next to the wall where manufacturers have established their camps, their villages, where they source all their building materials - I consider this historical landscape of the Great Wall.
Beyond the romance and travel photography, this contrast of old and new highlights another reason for their trip.
There's a lot of fuss always how long the Great Wall, and stories on the wall shorter, as it begins to be damaged, William said.
So I would look at the pictures and trying to understand how close things are to the wall.
There are laws and regulations in the past 10 years to protect the Great Wall scenery, and I'll be curious to see how reality matches up.
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