1. The glacier is 116 kilometers from Jiayuguan City, the closest distance between a glacier and a city in Asia.
2. Jiayuguan Pass is the only way to get to the Silk Road.
3. The trio spent 508 days trekking through 110 cities to reach the westernmost terminus at Gansu province's Jiayuguan pass.
4. All participants are expected to arrive at the Jiayuguan Pass at the western end of the Great Wall on September 18.
5. So it was a waste that the Jiayuguan museum seemed virtually empty during a peak travel season.
6. Jiayuguan served as a gateway of the Silk Road, much of this section of the wall has been buried by sandstorm.
7. The Great Wall was then extended west to Jiayuguan in Gansu province and east to Hushan in Liaoning province.
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8. It is one of the three great passes of the Great Wall, along with Jiayuguan and Shanhaiguan.
9. Gansu has implemented the programme in Jiayuguan and Dunhuang cities as well as in Lanzhou's Anning District.
10. Jiayuguan Pass was built in the early Ming dynasty, about 1372.