I was expecting big, hot and busy when I set off for Beijing. Words failed as soon as I arrived.

BEIJING -- Beijing will open two new parts of the Great Wall to tourists to meet high demand for one of the world's most famous tourist attractions, s...

The fact that people still opt to walk today, in the age of the wheel and the combustion engine, tells us there is something virtuous and irresistible about plodding.

Thanks to an underground network of mines, one of the world's most iconic sites is in danger. A section of the Great Wall of China has collapsed, repo...

A Chinese couple has spent more than a decade cleaning up tourist litter at the Great Wall of China, working alongside each other to carry out the hun...

"This business consists of riding bombs. And if you do absolutely everything right, you can marshal the energy to do something astonishing like put yourself into orbit. If you do even a few things wrong, it's going to act like a bomb."

We have gotten to a place where we are so interconnected that you can no longer escape, even in some of the most remote spots on earth.