Explore the Great Wall on foot, bike and underwater with Ash Dykes in his new BBC show
Explorer and athlete Ash Dykes showcases the Great Wall of China’s history and diverse landscapes in a new BBC Earth series
First, there was Action Man. Then, there was Ash Dykes.
The explorer, extreme-sports athlete, triple world-record holder and Sinophile recently spent two months filming in northern China following the Yellow River, going from “source to sea: kayaking, paragliding, rock climbing – you name it”, he says.
Before that came his expedition to the Amazon River, involving a trek of its full length and a search for its origins. And he is already planning “something similar to the Yellow River, in the Middle East, by land, air and sea … camelback, horseback, skydiving, paramotoring” for this year, he says.
“It was the biggest step in my adventuring career. I’d never done anything like it, with a full crew,” Dykes, 35, tells the SCMP from his London home. “It was a hell of a production.”