In an unexpected adventure, American pilot Marshall Mosher, during a paraglider flight over Giza Pyramids, monitored a local dog’s journey to the top of the Pyramid of Khafre.
At sunrise, the American pilot and his paragliding companions discovered an unexpected scene from the sky of Giza after spotting a stray dog enjoying the surrounding views from the top of one of the Seven Wonders of the World, according to CNN.
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An unlikely encounter
The adventurer documented the dog’s ascent to the summit: “We noticed something moving back and forth at the top of the pyramid, and someone thought it was a mountain lion. Then we found a dog that appeared to be chasing some birds at the top of the pyramid, which is about 448 feet (136 meters) high. We were a little worried, was the dog stuck there? But our fears were quickly dispelled, because if he could climb up on his own, he could of course lower himself down.”
Mosher said: “The next day, in an attempt to see if the dog was still there, we flew over the pyramid again, but to no avail, while a friend filmed a video of what appeared to be the same dog safely making its way down to the bottom of the pyramid, adding: yesterday, when I was flying, I saw one of these pyramid dogs climb all the way up to the top of one of the largest pyramids. This morning, I decided to go back over the pyramid to see if the dog was still there, in an attempt to rescue it and bring it back to Earth. Let’s go and find it.”
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Mosher appeared in a video clip that he broadcasted on his Instagram account, flying his paraglider the next day above the pyramids, where he was surprised to find that the dog was gone.
The video clip spread widely among social media users, garnering millions of views on Instagram within hours.
Social media users wondered how the dog was able to reach a peak of about 150 meters high and how long it took facing strong winds, alongside the strangeness of his choice of place as there would have been no food so high up in the summit.
Some have even compared the dog to Anubis, the god of the dead in ancient Egypt, who is often depicted as a man with the head of a jackal.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
