a british man has become the first person to walk the length of china's yangtze river — overcoming subzeros — and the 28—year—old's not even that keen on walking. at 6,400 kilometres, the yangtze is the world's third longest river and the longest in asia ash dyke began the journey at the river's source, more than 5,000m above sea level on the tibetan plateau. along the way, he crossed the famous three gorges, site of the world's largest hydroelectric dam and power station. the journey took him 352 days to reach the sea at china's largest city, shanghai. and when ash joined us from shanghai, he told us what motivated him to make such an extraordinaryjourney. so this is my profession, i've been doing this for the past ten years, and i've always been fascinated with china and wanted... it was pretty much the biggest thing i could find that hadn't yet been done, from west to east of the country as well, so i was just hooked instantly. tell us about some of the tough moments that you faced during that walk. yeah, so, really tough was actually the people that were joining me along the way. we ha

and, the long march — a british man becomes the first person to walk the length of china's yangtze river

and the long march — a british man becomes the first person to walk the length of china's yangtze river

to be the first person to complete a 4,000—mile expedition on foot along the length of china‘s yangtze riveroned. it is finally over. the challenge is below, what was the moments that stand out in terms of the biggest challenges? the challenge was probably getting access to the source of the river and finding it. we had different film crews, it took as a long time to get there and then for the first couple of months, the 16 different people joined couple of months, the 16 different peoplejoined me, ten were couple of months, the 16 different people joined me, ten were evacuated due to altitude sickness, injury or fear of wildlife so many challenges. did you ever feel your safety was at risk? yeah, there were times for sure that i was like, i need to assess my situation and work out how to get myself any more comfortable and safer environment. fortunately eve ryo ne and safer environment. fortunately everyone made it back home safe and sound who joined me and that is the main thing. we're looking at some pictures you have sent through and it looks stunning. we have been talking about the what