Actually coming down is harder on your joints than going up. I just can't imagine back in 200 B.C. when they were building this thing. I guess it meant full employment. I probably said this before, but the astronauts on the moon could see the Great Wall unaided. Emperor Chin was quite a guy. He built the Great Wall and united the five provinces of China for the first time. He's been compared to Alexander the Great and and Julius Caesar. Some pretty ugly and bloody battles brought his victories about. He wanted to live a very long life. First his doctor told him to have lots of sex. I guess that wasn't working for him so he asked again, "How can I live longer?" The doctor prescibed daily doses of mercury. I guess the good news is that he was a raving maniac when he finally died. He's also the guy who had all the terra cotta soldiers guarding his tomb so he could rule forever from the afterlife. 
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