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"\n\nHave you ever wanted to scale the Great Pyramid at Giza? I totally would, except one, the Pyramid of Khufu is 455 feet high, two, I am afraid of heights, and three, it\u2019s illegal, and I don\u2019t feel like getting arrested in a foreign country. One German teen, however, took the risk, climbing the Great Pyramid for the sake of a cool Instagram photo, according to USA Today. On January 18th, 18-year-old daredevil Andrej Ciesielski successfully climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid (he&amp;#39;s not the first \u2014 a group of Russian photographers also made the climb in 2013). \n\nAndrej brought a GoPro with him and caught the whole climb on video.\n\nYes, he was arrested, but soon released without anything further happening. Officers agreed not to press charges if he deleted the photographic evidence of his climb. However, he had software to recover the deleted footage, and additionally documented the adventure on his blog. \u201CWalking around in the complex I was waiting for the right moment to start climbing The Great Pyramid of Giza. When I started climbing a street seller was standing behind me but I didn\u2019t care about him I turned around he laughed and I continued climbing,\u201D he writes. \u201CAt the half some people got attention on me and looked up too. That\u2019s how the police spotted me. They shouted something in Arabic I think but I didn\u2019t care and kept going while listening to music.\u201D It took him eight minutes to scale the pyramid, and 20 to climb down \u2014because hey, \u201Csafety first!\u201D. \n\nRelated:  These 9 Young Poets Are Actually Making the Genre Cool Again\n\nCheck out Teen Vogue\u2019s February issue cover star, Amandla Stenberg.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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