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climbing the great pyramid of giza

A young German man put a lot on the line for the thrill of a lifetime – scaling the Great Pyramid of Giza, and filming the whole spectacle. An avid climber, the 18-year-old has braved some unforgettable heights. But the Egyptian police just couldn’t let this one slide.

Andrej Ciesielski broke a decades-old law by scaling the 4,500-year-old, 146-meter tall limestone structure of the Pyramid of Khufu, in Giza, last week. He filmed the whole thing.
eric3579says...

Tourist who think they can go into others countries and knowingly break the law should be charged, jailed or fined then deported. It annoys me they didn't charge him. Nothing bothered me more when i was traveling then tourists who though they were special and expected to be treated as such.

newtboysays...

They should revoke his passport. he obviously has zero respect for other cultures, their artifacts, or their laws.
I'm with @eric3579, he should have spent a month in jail, been fined, and THEN been deported...permanently...and I'll go farther and say he should be put on a list of people who desecrate international heritage sites and never allowed to travel again.

Sorry @enoch, have to downvote for the content/action depicted.

bcglorfsays...

Seconded. Hey, look at me, I'm illegally climbing a 4,500 year old historically and culturally important structure and causing unknown damage to it in the process. I'm so brave to risk the personal injury!

So selfishly minded it just leaves my completely baffled. Showing such gross disrespect for the historical and cultural importance of the object you are on that you actually think the greater risk is that you might harm yourself than the structure that has been there 4,500 years.

eric3579said:

Tourist who think they can go into others countries and knowingly break the law should be charged, jailed or fined then deported. It annoys me they didn't charge him. Nothing bothered me more when i was traveling then tourists who though they were special and expected to be treated as such.

gorillamansays...

It's a worthless pile of rocks.

As much as it has meaning culturally - it is as a symbol of a tyrant's vanity, purchased with the starvation and travail of his people.

The crime here is that local people are forcibly prevented from redistributing good stone into useful projects by the pimps who run the national prostitution racket of the tourism industry.

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