Tourists climb the Great Pyramid and take some amazing photos.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Sorry, Cleopatra wasn’t bathing in the Nile that evening. :stuck_out_tongue:

Gutsy tourists snuck by or bribed security to scale the Great Pyramid. Taken in the evening after the tours closed. They got some good shots with cameras on tripods. No fuzzy Iphone pics here. :smiley:

I’m always watching documentaries about the pyramids. I’ve seen lots of photos. But these angles are pretty unique. I felt like a tourist standing there myself. That closeup at the pyramid base was just amazing detail.

Napoleon and his troops climbed the pyramids. This is what they would have seen.

I’d love to see more of these photos. If anyone finds more photos from these climbers than please post a link.

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Wow. Crazy Russian tourists.

A few of those pictures took my breath away. A few others put my stomach in my throat.

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I just found Vitaliy Raskalov’s Live Journal page. It has the original photos in higher resolution. The pyramid climb and some great shots of Egypt’s cities.

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Am I the only one who read the thread title and thought of this?

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Amazing. And it’s remarkable seeing just how close Cairo has crept to the pyramids.

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Huh. I thought they blew up the pyramid in that Transformers movie. :dubious:

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Crazy Russians doing more illegal stuff.

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I wonder what all the scrapings on the rocks say. I’m sure some are more recent, some are original.

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Probably graffiti or people just signing their name. Climbing the pyramids was a popular tourist thing for a long time. I’m not sure when Egypt stopped allowing people to climb. Maybe 40 or 50 years ago?

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Whoa…Blade Runner flashback.

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Cultural vandals damaging the last great wonder of the ancient world. :mad:

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AFAIK no one damaged the pyramid. All they did was climb it and take some photos.

They don’t allow climbing anymore because of the huge volume of tourists. A 1000 climbers a day would do significant damage. Plus it’s dangerous.

I saw a Nat Geo documentary a few years ago with some Brit journalists that had permission to climb and investigate a shaft that extends out of a burial chamber. Climbing is still possible but it takes a special reason to get permission.