# Tourists climb the Great Pyramid and take some amazing photos. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930 "2013-03-25T16:54:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/1 "2013-03-25T16:54:50Z")
Sorry, Cleopatra wasn’t bathing in the Nile that evening. 😛 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. 😃 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.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298729/The-view-TOP-Great-Pyramid-Tourists-secretly-climb-Egyptian-landmark-amazing-photos.html) I’d love to see more of these photos. If anyone finds more photos from these climbers than please post a link. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/2 "2013-03-25T17:14:16Z")
Wow. Crazy Russian tourists. A few of those pictures took my breath away. A few others put my stomach in my throat. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/3 "2013-03-25T17:17:59Z")
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. > **[Cairo, Egypt](https://raskalov-vit.livejournal.com/131308.html)** > > Буквально позавчера вернулся из жаркого Каира. Хочу вам рассказать небольшую историю о том как мы залезли на вершину одного из семи чудес света. Что бы пробраться на пирамиду для этого нам пришлось около 5 часов прятаться от охранников в гробнице... ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/4 "2013-03-25T17:38:13Z")
Am I the only one who read the thread title and thought of [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXmQnIoLE6w)? ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/5 "2013-03-25T22:14:21Z")
Amazing. And it’s remarkable seeing just how close Cairo has crept to the pyramids. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/6 "2013-03-25T22:21:07Z")
Huh. I thought they blew up the pyramid in that Transformers movie. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/7 "2013-03-25T22:32:18Z")
Crazy Russians doing more illegal stuff. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/8 "2013-03-25T23:53:55Z")
I wonder what all the scrapings on the rocks say. I’m sure some are more recent, some are original. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/9 "2013-03-26T00:34:33Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/10 "2013-03-26T01:50:40Z")
Whoa…_Blade Runner_ flashback. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/11 "2013-03-26T22:17:38Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > Crazy Russians doing more illegal stuff. Cultural vandals damaging the last great wonder of the ancient world. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourists-climb-the-great-pyramid-and-take-some-amazing-photos/653930/12 "2013-03-26T23:33:00Z")
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.