Finding the Lost Largest Pyramid in the World

to achieve this we are protection for the group we are praying for you, take me back to the night you met Thomas. I was spending a summer in Montreal raising money for my tech startup and I heard a party from a rooftop and just all alone, so I started introducing myself and telling people what I do and what I'm working on until a girl told me that I should meet Thomas and within five minutes we started talking about how he was one of the only people in the

world

who had permission to climb the Great Pyramid of Giza, that's one of those things that immediately makes you wonder who the hell this is. type and where it comes from.

The same night I met Amara, I immediately went straight to it and told her. About this I was working as a bartender and it was around 2:00 in the morning and Thomas comes up to me with the biggest smile on his face, he looks me in the eyes and says, are you okay? They climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza. and he's so confused by what I'm talking about, dude, are you drunk, what are you saying? Even the possibility of being able to climb the Great Pyramid of Giza he felt is tremendously exciting, even just being there to document what I'm doing was kind.

I felt like it was a crazy ride to be a part of this, it was something that was going to happen in three months and I was telling everyone I met and that's why that came up in the conversation with Thomas, so we immediately started talking about the life. and all kinds of different things, I tell him about what I'm doing, which is about to start a journey of doing 30 things I've never done before in 30 days and making a video about it every day. The idea was for Omar to be Solo to help us film because he clearly had more experience with cameras than us, but practically during the first afternoon we quickly felt that that was not what he should do.

Amar's role was definitely to be the dreamer of whatever dream you can think of. he's too crazy, he'll level it up and make it even crazier and say now that's not big enough, he just elevated everything to make us believe in the impossible and a lot of the things we end up saying we would want to do. It seemed ridiculous to me to meet the Prime Minister of Canada at the time for a YouTube channel that had 800 subscribers, but we did it. You know, heli bungy with Will Smith. This is going to sound crazy, but what would happen if we challenged Will Smith to heli bungy?

Come on and then he did it, I mean dreaming about climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza is such a ridiculous dream so I don't think anyone has ever done it legally so you really wonder where that came from but he just elevated everything to make us believe in the impossible, that was actually the first dream I remember having as a child. I remember being so amazed at how big they were and in 2014 I spent 39 days straight showing up at different government offices every day and then it really happened, my friend Oscar. and I became the first person to obtain all legal permits to climb the Great Pyramid of Giza, but on the day of the climb we were denied permission at the base.

He had plans to make another attempt six months later, but little was done. I know that summer the whole government changed and my paperwork was useless and in 2017 I ended up taking math and Thomas to Egypt for the first time with my family and I had one last chance to make this dream come true. About to board the flight to go to Cairo, it's actually a bit surreal that we're about to see a family from Mars that we've been talking about together for two years and realized almost instantly upon turning up in Egypt in 2017 That we were going to climb it felt like I was talking to a wall, he had a meeting today and it was a lot of nothing, nowhere, that was my last chance to make the climb happen.

I want to be there someday and I made my attempts. I got a permit and it ended up happening, but I still hope that one day it will happen, if we had ever been able to climb the Great Pyramid of Giza, tomorrow it would have been filled with government officials going up and having to come down immediately. It would have been a crazy, stressful official scenario that didn't sound like something fun and adventurous, but I got a call from Perry, he had just been in Guatemala, he kept talking about this guy Pressy, and he kept talking about Something specific that Pressy He told him: I know how to take you to the

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It looks like a jungle, but these forests in Guatemala hide an ancient secret. It didn't seem real like he would. explain it, I almost felt that how come this is not something bigger, the thing is that almost no one has heard of this, how no one knows about this, how I have never heard of this

pyramid

of mountains, the structure that the world should know why it represents. an investment of labor unprecedented in world history, but it's affordable and I think that was the most exciting part. It's like no, no, you can leave, you just have to be willing to take the risk.

I hung up the phone and ran madly to Thomas' apartment tomorrow. and I stopped everyone and said: love, we will because, as you said and I just explained, it was like the

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pyramid in the world was not in Egypt, it is a common mistake if you fall so soon. Like I told you, they were down, all we have to decide is who we wanted to be there, whereas the thing about Ladonna's pyramid is that no one has properly documented the process of going and seeing the pyramid, so we wanted to get some of them together. the most talented creatives in the world to do justice to the story.

The first person we contacted was Sam Holder. We'd never actually worked with him before, but his travel cinematography is some of the most incredible we've ever seen. His filmmaking style has inspired thousands of people around the world, along with Sam Chelsea, Emma says she is his girlfriend, but also one of the world's most badass adventure photographers. Then we had Andreas Hem, who is a wizard of red camera cinematography. The red camera is practically an extension of his body, we have worked with him in the past and he never really misses a shot, so we invited Donnie Sheriff aka Johnny FPV, he is a first person view freestyle drone operator and honestly her work speaks for itself, then we have Sorrell and she's an experienced one at that. backpacker an adventurer who brings so much light and positivity that we couldn't have done this trip without her max Rance McDonald is a world traveler in daredevil who joined us in our latest documentary and who always says yes to adventure and last but not least . our friend Perry, now all grown up, is a filmmaker and comedian who told us about LaDonna in the first place and who came with us in 2017 to capture one of our attempts to climb the pyramid and, after a few months of phone calls and convincing SB , we were kind of ready. to go both car bags sorry we're not in my area I promise they're super cool they probably look perfect you're ready I think you're ready to go no one has anything you're supposed to have bye I'm just ranting literally our flight is like six hours, but this is what it's all about not knowing what you're getting into and relying on last minute trips to REI, yeah, as soon as we start researching what that would be.

To get there was when we started to wonder if it was a good idea, we're basically going to be walking for days through the jungle with no phone service, seemingly walking a marathon every day in scorching heat and we're on the brink of rain. season, which means that at any moment the weather could change for us and we are totally unprepared. Never before in our lives had we walked these distances. I have no idea what equipment we really need to bring. We don't know this guide, who is Perry. he basically met for a couple of days and we're bringing in a group of creators that we also didn't know who trust us in our readiness to literally walk straight into the jungle.

I don't know about you, but that sounds like a terrible idea, it just sounds like something you'd want to prepare for. We had the whole team here at the SS and we're here with last minute preparations and the plate comes out in about two hours, so there's a lot to do since it's already a week too late to start doing things pretty quickly. I'll be brief to officially welcome you all to the S House. This is a space built with the intention of attracting the brightest minds of our generation. Take the laboratory. and working together, you are carefully selected because you are human beings who have followed your own truth and as a result created something spectacular that, as far as the thousands of people around are concerned, it is a great honor to have each of them. of you here today who join us on this journey this is not a production, this is a real adventure that we will all continue on as we realize the risks involved in reaching the end, the unknown of going into a jungle and We know what we're going to face there, but the best part is we're going to do it together and I think everyone's on the same page on Johnny, but yeah, obviously, I want to give you the context of what story we're trying to tell and where the work begins because there is definitely a story of intense decline, the parents given the time constraints will just do that as we go, the team is out and I think we have everything and now we are boarding the flights to Guatemala heading to the jungle, this is the biggest that we've ever had and the most equipment we've ever worked with, that's life, oh my god, mmm, are you ready, yeah, yeah, what about you guys, ready, our soap operas are, let's climb the mountain Kilimanjaro and magazines? and these, these are the ones that, yeah, Sam won't be alive like shirtless for the entire trip.

I'll just wear a sweater. I started the whole class with a sleeping bag, yeah, you can't breathe at all, your muscles, here we go, there are so many. filmmakers on this journey that every two seconds we stop and take shots, it's actually a nice thing because you stop and appreciate this, you free yourself instead of just driving, yeah, oh my back is destroyed. I was sitting in the worst seat. Shall we start? We traveled 24 hours ago and finally we are on the island which is just the starting point where we will start the journey tomorrow so again we do a four hour journey and then we arrive at the start of the trek and rest with the radar yes we are running on our hotel, we will stay here overnight and then wake up at what time tomorrow at 5:00 am? m. no we're leaving at 5:00 so we have to wake up I don't know how long it takes to get ready for 4:30 we should get all the snoring together yeah I think so no I talk in my sleep okay talk it's only an hour , so you all really have to understand each other more with Alejandra, yes max, do you think you snore and put them in the middle of the floor yes, another big dream oh, I'm absolutely not ready to rumble do you feel like carrying a red camera just worry Because of the humidity, Aramids have been confusing modern civilizations since we found them.

We don't know how ancient civilizations were built? these and I said that there is so much mystery around it that I am personally stuck on going on our first real Indiana Jones adventure or that Ammar will achieve one of the biggest dreams of his and that all of us will have the trip of our lives. Look what's going on with the battery, that sounds like it, we're stuck in a Burger King parking lot, we can't get the car to start, maybe they'll push it right now, well done team, well done, we've started a journey of four hours that the road takes.

It became a roller coaster for two more hours. Everyone's been trying to take a nap on this bus, but failed attempts so far only checked our phones and we're officially off the grid. Nobody has any service. Hi Mom. Very few people manage to get off the bus. exit in the middle of the lower gun but I guess that's what the company is about this is the last frontier of civilization Guatemala hits from the spoon and begins to walk slowly as if there were no more humans at this point this is called the caracal it is the present you know that the rings to call our ancestor, you know that you have connection with them and we are sure that they have come to help us, let's pray, yes, that should happen, or Allah, or Allah, who with a silky coat, a multi forever Lamonica, yes, bolero, Aladdin. the end of inner Havana why would you spend a in Latin America?

This is the beginning, we've just begun, ready, I mean, ready, yeah boy, well we've started the hundred mile walk into the Guatemalan jungle, it's not for dancing now, but we've been told it's gotten a lot denser. They are excited because they won in search of the largest pyramid in the world. We have arrived at what officially looks Guatemalan. The total. This is exactly what I expected. LC was asking me earlier why. you guys decide to bring all these people in instead of just being nice. I mean, one aspect of this is that we miss an opportunity for us to bring other creators into our world and create something different with new cinematography, new cameras that are geared toward at the end of the day, when you look around you,you smile and joke, you have dinner together, there's like a very deep layer of bond that you can only achieve when you experience things like this.

I think a big part of this journey is not just going. for this father, but it's doing it with a whole group of people that we've wanted to meet for a while and create that friendship, create that bond and then create something incredible together, they're like I see a branch of music, what is it? It sounds like we're in Jurassic Park right now. So crazy that Johnny just poisons him anyway. What did you want to be when you grew up? I've always been. I'm intrigued by flying, so it's like a fighter jet pilot, kind of crazy, dreams and goals fade over time, but they totally rekindle with these things, whether you're sick and you haven't aged. , he's been doing it for five years and he's still fired, you know?

He makes my heart beat, so when you put on the glasses you feel like you're in another world, yes, percent. I saw this video that someone took when I was filming some cars, the most hectic situation ever and there was a rape clip and for me. and I'm like sitting there with my zone headphones on, it's like it's weird, it's a totally complete contrast and yeah, this is the main path to get to this pyramid, that's crazy. Damn, I'm definitely on a more Foresti path now at the moment. you can't wait, yeah, which makes it very interesting when we have people spread out.

I'm going alone. I think there are different groups and stuff. There are clearly two paths to follow. What is this path? The teenager tells the cancer that the Intel camp is where we are going to spend the night, okay, yes, welcome to Moscow, check the GPS. Walk 13 miles today. There is still a long way to go. I'm realizing how small my hiking experience really is. Actually we will stay in a camp where all the archaeologists stay and when they come to do studies on the whole pyramid and yes, we have made a good day tomorrow at 4 am. m. or at dawn, I guess you guys don't have much experience.

I think I told Prezi and the bus a little bit, but the first dream I had that I remember having as a child was when I was five years old and visited the pyramid with my dad for the first time. I remember the scene was like a point for the authors like I want to go there and then like I said, I can't, I said why, because you just can't, that was the first time, just like my conscious mind remembers saying, oh, I'll do that. I'm actually in Egypt. Right now, this is where I was born and raised and I'm so excited to be here after a whole year of not seeing my family.

Five years ago, this place used to be full of tourists, but officially not anymore after the Revolution tourism took a big boom. I fired volleys of rubber bullets and tear gas at the protesters. So if you ever have a chance to visit Egypt, you should definitely come and you should contact me. I will be a personal tour guide. In my opinion, I would love to do it. I just put the pieces together where I would approach the Egyptian government I basically proposed the idea to them to allow me to achieve a childhood dream together with my co-founder Oscar was American to show the world that Egypt was safe and to show the world that the government actually cares for making sure tourists are welcome.

I had been telling my dad about it and he ended up putting me in touch with a friend who told me if there is a person who will give you the definitive answer as to whether this is going to happen or not. it was this guy, so I drove to Cairo to meet this guy and in about three minutes he said, "I'll forget it, this will never happen" and then the next day I was in the car at 6:00 a.m. driving back to Cairo. and I remembered that in the first government office I went to there was a woman in the back who smiled at me and I went straight to her.

I told her the whole story and she laughed so much that I think towards the end she felt a little bad for me and she referred me to her friend who worked at the Ministry of Tourism and within 10 days I was speaking to the Minister of Tourism who was really supportive the idea. The Minister of Tourism ended up contacting the Minister of Antiquities and Suddenly, 39 days later, what they made fun of every time he presented it became a big stunt that the government is now supporting. I end up getting a phone call from my contact at the Ministry of Antiquities and the guy says Ahmad.

Where are they? They are going to climb tomorrow. I finish immediately by taking a bus to Cairo, ladies and gentlemen. We just left the Supreme Council of Antiquities and officially obtained the document to climb the pyramids. It's been a journey. We got our signatures. in a dream and it has been a dream to climb tomorrow baby and then the next day the head of security was so against it that this man literally said: over my dead body you will touch a stone in the pyramid at that point I just realized that in It wasn't really about technicalities, it was more about ego that summer, the whole government just got shuffled and my paperwork was just useless.

This is the other crazy part that Tomás did during this week four years ago and that was obviously a great moment in life. where what changed the entire path of my life to dedicate myself to what I am, what I am doing today and the story of the first story that I shared was the story of being able to obtain that permission and then that is the first story that you shared it with Matt, some of us just had this flow and started making videos together like, oh wow, maybe now we're in a better position to present this to the government, we were different in the kitchen first, one didn't work because a lot of complications and the second was on my last visit to return home.

I made one last attempt and it didn't work and now I won't be able to return to Egypt for five more years until I'm 30 years old. Because I return, the military would hold me long enough to travel. I just remember that moment with my dad and a very visceral experience. I liked the idea of ​​what I'm doing now. It's actually exactly that vision, maybe not the same place, but the same idea of ​​what we are doing, so we woke up at 4:30 to get up and walk to a smaller temple. There is our first night sleeping on some rugs on the floor. ground, so it will be interesting to see how people slept and even more so how this morning there were a couple of people with some small sores, injuries on their feet and things like that, so it will be interesting to see how the legs were and the feet are holding up on The next few days I think we can expect a lot of walking.

I think I'm right on that front. Today 35 kilometers of walking until you reach the base of the El Mirador camp, many unknown adventures to live. It's 7:00 in the morning and it's already very hot? A lot of people were complaining yesterday that their feet hurt, so it will be interesting to see what happens after a full marathon of walking today. I don't think any of that We are very used to walking these distances if you did it without backpacks when I'm inside it's much easier but right now I have like batteries moving cars red camera the heat is hitting us hard right now I'm so exhausted you have This moment of simply having to ignore what your body is telling you and keep walking and it comes down to you having the willpower to push your body past the pain.

We are questioning whether we are going to be able to continue working. I was really struggling with it. the heat I really experienced so much heat for so long nothing like my body knows how to handle these 48 hours without um there is an answer damn I could do this quickly it's been 48 hours without internet honestly I don't even know if there is already like a world out there my girlfriend could have forgotten me, yeah if you find this mom I love you okay you guys are soldiers are you doing this sick? Yeah, so screaming and I've been sick for the last three days and Chelsea was coughing everything up. night I feel like I had a pretty bad fever my heels are eating themselves I'm exhausted there's also the combination of very little sleep because the high humidity outside probably 30 minutes of story right now when I was walking back I've never had that's one of the more dizzy and I never felt wow, in fact I was for a second a little worried.

I'm starting to understand that this is going to be very mentally exhausting because it's long and I think it's only been 24 hours since we started all of this. everyone is exhausted but here we go again Thomas is about to photograph some birds, he's fine, I look like a bird whisperer. I face that it is the last hour of the day. I must say my feet are on fire. We start at 5:00 a.m. m. this morning. It's now 5:00 p.m. that makes it 12 hours, that makes me a hiker, who does it, it's crazy to just walk around here and see basically big piles of dirt and rocks, and it almost seems crazy to think that there's something underneath this, but they .

We're slowly discovering all these incredibly elaborate structures, it's just mind-blowing Smith, it looks like a normal rock, but when you really take a look at it, you can see that there are naturally built steps on it, right? They've been swallowed by nature, So I guess only the largest pyramids and temples have really stood the test of time. This is the first mining structure of any considerable size that we have seen. It's crazy. They were in the middle of nowhere. What percentage of the city do you think has been discovered. Oh, probably only about two percent of You know, there's still a lot to find, let's get into the first structure of the mine, were they small or what, that's so tight.

We're in the middle of a mine structure, it's in the middle of the jungle and we're doing well, and this is where. they bury people it smells like yes, Dagon barely my shoulders barely fit yes, oh my God. Wow, there's no way you can stand up here, so apparently this tree that holds the whole base together is 2,000 years old, you know, oh my gosh, spider, it's one. of those scorpion spiders oh, that's the last time I go into a hole I don't know what's in there oh, okay, okay, this is crazy. Wow, it's always strange to imagine the people who used to live here, you know, so long ago that they disappeared thousands of years ago. and now we're here and it's covered in forests straight out of Indiana Jones.

I'm young. So many things, at first we didn't know much about a family from Mars and where they came from. I'm very frustrated by his decisions, I mean he had a full scholarship to like a good school in Canada and he was willing to pass it up to start a YouTube channel. It didn't make any sense. Basically, you're the reason he dropped out of school. you're the reason he's not coming home you almost feel like you're the reason he's a i mean, i mean his father disowned him. The moment that scared me the most since we started this French thing happened last night, every part of it.

The journey has been divine and if you supported me in the most supernatural way, I know that what we stand for for the purpose of bringing into this world will be worth making the most difficult decision I have ever had. To make my phone vibrate, I pulled it out and there was a long Facebook message from my dad. I want my son Omar to return, he leaves this evil and perverted group of yours and find another job or return to Egypt immediately if you don't. I will not accept you as my son or my life at all.

In fact, you have caused so much harm to your family and relatives. What a shame. I will not accept any other acceptable outcome. I said it before. He thought this stance would change my mind, and as hurtful as the things he mentioned in the letter were, I knew that every word he said was simply out of his deep need and desire to protect me and to do everything he could and his powers to divert that. path I just know that I can't be the only one trapped in this position and there is someone out there who needs to listen to someone whose dreams have been rejected by those they love the most and I know how painful it is to live through that experience.

So I want you to know that you are not alone and that as long as you let your life move forward, they will know that every pain we go through is just an inevitable component of any success we want to achieve. I know who you. you are and you walk freely visit our decision to post that video was the hardest decision I have ever had to make because I knew there would be no turning back from that decision it would be an act of defiance towards him, which is something you are not, I just don't. what you do in my culture, you didn't defy your father.

Egyptian friends who live here came and we are trying to convince him to delete it and he just stood his ground and ended up coming to a breakup. The moment he stood up, they made it clear that this video is for every person who is not accepted for who he is and is not able to dream and do the things that he really wants to do, it's like you feel overwhelmed. sense of responsibility to make sure that no matter what your dreams come true because if you are going to sacrifice everything if you are going to sacrifice not seeing your family if you are going to sacrifice not returning home if you are going to sacrifice being disowned by your father, essentially You become the surrogate father brother, you know you become everything to each other once that kind of thing happens, my mind justIt flashed back for a second to the moment I shared with my dad, which is where all these dreams come from, you know, and it stirred and then I just thought about him. and I missed him a lot.

I was just trying to channel as much as I could for him, just let him know that I'm thinking about him and I love him, but I'm always praying for him, thinking about you two. I miss him a lot. Somehow the dream came true, not the way I imagined, but I never felt more blessed than I felt happier or stronger in my mind. I'm glad they're experiencing the same thing with you. It's the best part four years ago. You'll sleep so much better tonight honey oh no literally just fix it you're welcome no it's me and then you and I come in um oh yeah look no isn't that right?

It is the third day of the song. I haven't looked even a bit. a little bit of agreement for three days, so today there you find the pyramid, today is the day we climbed the pyramid, today is when they were. Finding the parable of the earth is very difficult when we were in Egypt two years ago. I never thought the destination would be a pyramid in Guatemala and it feels as good as Egypt, as great as the pyramids were there, we all feel that way. like it's not the right place and here I feel so natural with everyone, little by little you need to know each order to eat more, even people we've known for four years and I think I can put a period at the end of that sentence and be Like this chapter of our lives is over, looking for this ancient structure and standing on top of it and witnessing what it's like, now we can breathe and move on with our lives and learn from that, I think it's really exciting to close this chapter with everyone here. , so I'm excited.

Awkwardness is the best way to build friendships. This is how our friendship was born. Being able to share this experience all together. It has been very rewarding and we still have a few more to go. dates ahead, but like being 20 minutes away from entering the pyramid with all of you, it has been a surreal experience, I am very excited to continue the conversations and share this moment together and I am very grateful that you all said yes. It is a final stretch of this hundred kilometer walk that we started three days ago, let's take a meditative walk, let's be in tune with ourselves and think only about your life and again about how it ends here and now, when we get there. have all that president with whom we can celebrate the moment with depth and intensity, since it is a big problem what we are about to do well, the moments come, we are doing well, we have just reached the bottom of the pyramid so these it's just the steps to get to the platform where all the pyramids are we're just getting started look how big the base of the pyramid is wait the base of the pyramid is the size of downtown Los Angeles Wow You'd never guess it just walking around here, but all of this is limestone, below it is limestone and this is part of the pyramid.

Well, these are the steps to the second platform and this whole thing we're on is built by one man, so once they started digging up the soil from what's been layered on top of this for thousands of years, actually they're discovering what a giant construction and what a crazy job it was to build this, strip us down and just make us go well, apparently, the top. There's still about 50 minutes of walking left so we'll keep moving, but you guys always go ahead of us, this is just one step ahead, well I can't even see the top from here, this is way bigger than I expected.

You don't even fully grasp it in your mind, huh, this huge thing must have looked like when it was real, you know, so are we ready to go up? Okay, the moment is upon us, we're actually doing it, I've got chills right now, I've got the paper. officially climbing the pyramids they obviously get paid and it's much more established our youth is a big thing that I have to work for and I have always held myself accountable for this dream when it comes to leaving and leaving every piece of support that will help you endure the idea that I won't be able to be home.

This is so that all children dream as wildly as possible. Dream as big as you can. If you are here, for some reason, no one comes here. just for fun difficult you don't know it's not easy but if you have that connection all you can dance absolutely what is yesterday I have to do with dreams everything the theory of yes is saying yes to those dreams that you think are so implausible is being constantly on the quest to go after those dreams, go after the things that matter most to you in life, while you're on the quest to do something you love and do something you dream of, you never know who. that inspires or what ends up contributing to your life sometimes we end up achieving dreams that we didn't even know we had that is the most beautiful part of being in the search