We scraped the ice off of the bed, attempted to use the bathroom - no water -

then went down to breakfast which was an East meets West affair. We had green tea, Nescafé, pancakes, fried eggs, buttercream filled cookies and more. Great food for a trek.

Angela had slept, and we both had some more energy for the day ahead.

We headed on foot from the village back up the mountain to the Wall. We passed a number of signs on the way telling us that this part of the wall was closed so we were suspicious of what was ahead.

We have now decided that our tour guide is trying to kill us.

The route was challenging and once again we were scrambling up steep walks. After about an hour of this we reached an intersection. Three of the women is our group waited here while the rest of the group carried on climbing to the next tower “Eagles Mouth”. Angela stopped and here whilst the rest of us scrambled up vertical steps to the next peak. Parts of the climb were so sheer that Alan was fearing the descent. This smaller group made it to the higher peak and the views were amazing. Up at these two towers it started to snow! All of this group admitted to being scared on the sheer climb on the way back down.

After lunch back at Fawlty Towers we boarded the bus to our next guest house. Two hours later we arrived in Gubeikou

Luxury! Hot water! Heater! We dropped our bags in our room and were whisked away for a Tai Chi lesson. It was more difficult than we anticipated.

After more great food we all played some group games then headed off to prepare for whatever life threatening walk Richard has planned for tomorrow