Travelers often splurge on expensive trips to witness awe-inspiring landmarks like the Great Pyramids of Giza from a respectful distance. While visitors are forbidden from climbing the ancient structures, one daring four-legged adventurer managed to scale the top of a pyramid. This surprising scene was caught on video by a paraglider participating in adventure sports above the pyramid complex. Marshall Mosher, Alex Lang, and Dimitris Kolliakos were soaring over the Great Pyramid of Khafre when Lang's camera captured an unexpected sight: a dog perched on the top of the ancient wonder.
As the paragliders descended, they confirmed the barking figure was indeed a dog, astonishingly standing atop one of the Seven Wonders of the World. "A dog climbed up the Great Pyramid of Giza! Do you think he lives up there?" Mosher wrote in a caption accompanying the video he shared on Instagram. The footage quickly went viral, amassing over 23 million views, with viewers both amused and concerned for the dog's safety in the comment section.
@betomathevs joked, "Not a dog. That is the Egyptian God Anubis. He is considered the guide of the dead in the afterlife and the protector of the tombs. That's why it is over the pyramid." @asad_be_013 speculated, "If he pees there all Egypt belongs to him." @oliveantfox shared, "I wonder how long it took him. I want him to come down and get some water." @lilou765432 questioned, "Hello, on another video you said you went back to check on the dog but couldn't see it. How can you be sure the dog is fine now, I don't understand. Please, tell us." Another person assured fellow users that if the dog can climb up, surely it can climb down with ease.
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Mosher posted another video on his Instagram profile @marshallmosher where a couple of local dogs made an appearance. "Soaring over the Pyramids again in search of Egypt’s most famous pup at the top of the pyramids! Yesterday, I spotted a dog at the very top of the Great Pyramid Khafre who went viral with people suspecting he might be the physical embodiment of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the dead who’s often depicted with the head of a jackal (a fox-like animal that looks just like these local dogs) I flew back up on my to see if I could catch another glimpse of this canine god guarding the afterlife (or just enjoying the best view in Egypt)! Where do you think he went?" the caption of Mosher's follow-up video read.
True to his words, Mosher took a flight once again and flew right over the Pyramid of Giza and then over the Pyramid of Khafre where they originally spotted the canine. To people's surprise and relief, the dog was not seen in that spot again. Mosher believed that the dog might have made its way down successfully since dogs in the area have a habit of scaling the ancient structures anyway.
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.