the 23-year-old Andrew White has ended up in the headlines on a wide range of arab media.
the Dane has a picture taken and a video from the top of the Keopspyramiden in Giza at the Cairo and posted it on social media.
the Dane’s iniquity consists in several things. On the one hand, he and a friend climbed on the Keopspyramiden, which is strictly forbidden, and the pair have taken a nøgenbillede in a sexual position, as mr White himself refers to as ’the pyramid fuck’.
I had for many years dreamed of climbing the great pyramid. The idea of creating a ‘nude shoot’ up there also had existed for some time, tells Andrew White to Ekstra Bladet.
the Incident has created anger among egyptians, and also danes.
‘This is very disrespektfuldt, shame on you’, writes a user with the Arabic name of Andrew white’s YouTube channel.
‘Fuck, you’re an idiot. To piss on a country and culture’s history. You ought to rot in prison, royal fool’, writes a dane.
the egyptian authorities are upset over the incident.
the Ministry of egyptian antiquities will examine the Andreas white’s video and photo for authenticity, says the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr. Mustafa Waziri, who calls the video and the picture of unethical and requires accountability.
Ayman Ashmawy, who is the leader of Egypt (compare the video with the ’a war against Egypt’.
– It is an amoral movie, which is an insult against all symbols of humanity, especially because it is against our morals and values, says Ayman Ashmawy, the egyptian newspaper al-Masry al-Youm according to DR. dk
– I am sorry that so many people have been so angry. But I’ve also gotten a positive response from a great many egyptians – something I think is worth remembering, says Andrew White.
– Have you thought about whether you encounter a population of the image here?
– clearly It has provoked some people, but maybe it also works as a haven for the more liberal egyptians.
– Have you thought about whether it can trigger a crisis, which you have not anticipated – that this will have consequences for Danish travelers?
– I don’t think it get. It becomes a thing that goes slightly viral and so goes over again. I want, not at all, it must be a new Muhammed-crisis, and the picture karikerer not any muslim values. In fact, I think the pyramids works surprisingly little appreciated by the egyptians. I know, the pyramids are important to Egypt, but for the same reason it is also surprising that the area in several places flowing with waste. Therefore, feel too little appreciated, says the young dane.
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Picture taken on tripod with self-timer, informs Andreas White. Private
Andrew White has made a number of so-called ‘rooftopping’-photos, where he visits the buildings and take artistic photos at the top.
Rooftopping is a sub-category of Urban Exploration. Rooftopping specifies that you go for to come up on top of buildings.
– the Urban Explorations is the most important rule is that you do not take nothing but pictures and leave nothing other than footprints. We never do harm in the places we visit.
He started with his hometown of Aarhus’ forbidden and hidden places, and in recent years he has moved out into the world to take pictures.
‘With my camera, I have perpetuated my climbing on various high-rise buildings in Hong Kong and Bangkok and eastern europe’s abandoned, dilapidated soviet relics and an illegal trip to the Chernobyl zone in Ukraine’, he writes on his website.
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the Dane was in the first place also have made a so-called common rooftop picture on the top of the Keopspyramiden with his Norwegian friend, but they were discovered.
– We spent some time in Cairo to try to figure out how this could best succeed for us, but when we finally tried to climb up, we ended up being stopped by the guards inside on the Gizaplateauet. After being interrogated at the local police station, we were released without further consequences, says Andrew White to Ekstra Bladet.
While his friend traveled home to Norway, was Andreas White keen to implement the idea, and he contacted a friend in Denmark.
– I was obsessed with getting the project to succeed, so I contacted some girls in Denmark, which I thought would be interested in making ‘pyramid fuck’image. There were several who thought it was a fun idea. And fortunately one who had the opportunity to come to Cairo at short notice.
One of the last days of november at 21.30 crawled Andreas and his friend over the fence into the plateau.
– the Place we had chosen was far away from the pyramid. We had in advance prepared a route, we would follow and knew where we needed to be extra vigilant.
– After having crossed the first few critical locations saved, we are in a temple and waited on, to the level of activity on the plateau decreased.
We stood and froze for about an hour and a half, while we could hear the cars driving around, says Andrew White.
The climb did the two danes in about 25 minutes.
– A euphoric feeling hit us both, when we reached the top. It was the culmination of so much work and many chances taken.
– For this ‘shoot’, I chose to go all in with the model, since it anyway was a big work ‘just’ to get up on the pyramid, which, incidentally, is one of the most magical locations I have ever visited.
– ‘Pyramid fuck’ was the stupidest idea I could come on. Western, privileged youth at its worst. All that’s missing is a joint and a bottle of vodka, said Andreas White, which also reveals whether something happened between him and her friend.
– It is a set-up ‘shoot’. We did not have sex, and we have never had it. It is also only the second time I have been naked on one of my pictures.
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Did you in advance you, what punishment it could trigger, if they found you up there naked?
I had, in principle, the track of the penalty to be taken up at the top of the pyramid. I knew that other, which has been taken for it here, either just have got a warning or a fine. I thought that now, if you just took the precautions and made the ‘shootet’ and swapped around on the SD card (in the camera, red.), before we took down from the pyramid, so they are not discovered, we had been naked, so it was enough.
– Are there any places you could not imagine to create a ’nude shoot’?
– I’m not so afraid to encounter a system. I would rather not encounter so many individuals, and I will not make fun of a religious symbol. It was the pyramids, of course, but it is 4500 years ago.
Andrew White has gone on to Asia and do not expect ever to be able to be welcomed in Egypt again.
– I will keep me out of the land of Egypt in the future, since I probably run the risk of being judged, if I go back. The project was to come up on the pyramid, who got me to come down there, so I feel like I have seen it, I would like in Egypt, says Andrew White, who do not want to disclose where his next ‘roof-topping’ or ‘nude shoot’ to take place.
– I will not reveal my next target, before I succeed with it. Which you never know.
The 139 meter high Keopspyramide is the pharaoh Cheops’ tomb, and one of the pyramids in the complex at Giza outside Cairo. Photo: Maxim Gorpenyuk
