Lindesay has lived in China for 14 years during which he has spent “more than 800 days on the Great Wall”. In 1987, he made what China’s Xinhua News Agency described as “the most successful foreign exploration of the Great Wall”, and he recounted his 2,470 km solo adventure in "Alone on the Great Wall" published in the UK, USA and Germany.

Since 1995 he has primarily been engaged in systematic research of the Great Wall in the Beijing region and two books for Oxford University Press - “Images of Asia: The Great Wall” and "Beijing’s Great Wall: Researches and Impressions" are the result of his efforts.

Since 1998 he has continued to spearhead efforts to highlight dangers confronting the Great Wall by directing the conservation program "Defending the Great Wall from Modern Attack". In 2001 Lindesay founded “International Friends of the Great Wall” as a society in Hong Kong in order to assist China’s cultural relics protection authorities in the task of preserving the authenticity of the Great Wall.

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