In 2016, an 18-year-old German named Andrej Ciesielski did something almost no one is allowed to do.
He walked up to the Great Pyramid of Giza in broad daylight, put on a GoPro, and started climbing.
Halfway up the 146-metre monument, police spotted him and started shouting. He didn’t stop. He kept going while listening to music.
8 minutes later he was standing on top of the last remaining Wonder of the Ancient World.
The view: empty desert, the other two pyramids, Cairo in the distance.
He stayed up there, took photos, then climbed down carefully (20 minutes). Police were waiting at the bottom. They detained him, made him delete everything, and let him go.
He recovered the footage later.
Risk: 3 years in jail.
Reward: one of the rarest views on Earth.
He later received a lifetime ban from Egypt.
Worth it? He said yes.