THE FULL STORY. (my scariest moment)

hello my friends I hope this message finds you well earlier this week you may have noticed that I sent out a tweet or an Instagram story talking about how I had had a very frightening travel experience and that I was just thankful to be alive and never going to take a minute for granted again and immediately messages started pouring in from all over and people were asking if I was okay what had happened so in order to try and get away from rumors and speculation I put out a short video about 1 minute long where I explained that I had not been threatened I wasn't in legal trouble but I had had the most frightening moment of my life I've been traveling the world for 10 years now and the scariest thing happened to me this week so unfortunately my video message did not have the intended results and instead of people focusing on what the message was about which was gratitude and never taking a moment for granted um it basically turned into everyone trying to figure out what had happened to me which is understandable and therefore I I do believe you guys deserve to know so I'm going to share everything with you I just want to share with you a little bit of background for context um I've been traveling the world solo for 10 years I've gone to many interesting and fascinating places met many amazing people and for the most part I'm traveling on my own I do enjoy traveling with my wife and children sometimes I travel with friends but the majority of the time I'm traveling on my own um works out kind of well I can run on my own schedule I can plan things the way I want to plan trips and not have to worry about what anyone else is going to do I'm able to create content and find amazing stories at the farthest corners of the globe because of traveling so late and so far it's been working great for me I've never had an issue traveling solo and there was almost never a time when I was traveling alone and I felt like I wish I wasn't alone I wish I had someone with me because I'm I'm perfectly comfortable in my own skin and I'm happy to spend time on my own even if it's sometimes it could be 3 days on my own 4 days a week whatever it is I'm happy doing it for those of you who follow my work you already know that the content that I create and the content that I intend to create is always focused on lifting people up and bringing people together I don't create content that is divisive and I'm always trying to be positive and optimistic about the future and about the world and about the people I meet and I've had some really incredible experiences which you will know about if you've seen any of my other videos however there are some people in this world who are not focused on uniting and they're not focused on optimism and they are filled with hate and I sometimes to get threats from these people so on a regular basis I'm getting nasty messages a lot of them come from the Middle East from people who don't like what I do I sometimes get threats people will send me a message like if you ever step foot of my country I'm going to ruin your life or whatever I don't want to go into it I try not to give these people any attention I don't respond to them I don't really take them seriously however because I do get these threats if I'm in a country where I have even the slightest worry about safety or security I will not post publicly that I am in that country so once I leave the country then I'll start posting my content and uh letting people know that I was there which is why when I posted that tweet and then the video later the same day I was not able to tell you where I was because I was worried about my safety so here is the story that occurred this week in its entirety earlier this week I was working on a project and I found myself in Egypt I was in the City of Cairo and I've gotten my fair sheare of threats from people in Egypt so I figured I'm not going to make this public until I'm out of the country which is why I'm talking about it now anyhow I'm in the city of Cairo which is right near Giza and Giza is home to the Great Pyramids which I'm sure you all know of the famous natural wonders of the world so I took an Uber over there I bought a ticket to enter the site I hired a guide and a camel and I'm riding around on a camel the guide is leading me and we're checking out the area it was a very very very hot day so we got close to one of the pyramids called the kafra or kufra pyramid I'm not sure exactly how you pronounce it it was towards the end of the day my guide was very tired and he asked me if I wanted to go inside the pyramid so I figured yeah why not I said is there anything to see in there he's like not really but if you're here already you should probably go in so I'm like okay so he said I'm very tired I'm staying outside you go in and I'll be waiting for you I approached the pyramid I believe there are two entrances I went to one of the entrances which was for me it was on the right side so I go to that entrance and there's an Egyptian police officer standing in a booth not far away and he said we're about to close like everyone has left already so run in there make it fast and come out I said okay no problem as I'm approaching the pyramid I see a whole large group of tourists come out so now I'm entering the pyramid so you go down a couple of stairs until you're a little bit below ground level and then it kind of turns into a crawl space it's like a ramp going down but it's carved through the rock it's maybe 3 ft wide and 3 and 1/2 or 4 ft tall I'm not sure exactly about the dimensions but this is what the way I remember it and it's kind of claustrophobic and you have to bend over almost as if you're crawling but there's railings on the sides you can hold on to the railings but you're totally bent over and it goes deep down I'm not sure how many stories but it's probably four five or six stories down and it's quite Steep and it's just carved out of rock so because it's so steep if you would be going down you just slide right in so I guess whoever runs the site put these metal bars going across the ramp so every 12 in or so you can like put your foot down and kind of stop yourself from sliding in so you got to take these steps very carefully and about 10 ft in I was thinking to myself boy this is like really uncomfortable because also not only you because you're because you're bending over you kind of like don't have great balance and because of the the angle it's just you feel like you're going to fall and it it was very uncomfortable and I I remember thinking to myself like this is a mistake I shouldn't do this but I figured you know I'm here anyway let me go down there so I continue going down and I'm taking pictures and I think I took some video too and then eventually after like 3 or 4 minutes minutes I get to the bottom and as soon as I got to the bottom I noticed that I could stand up because the space at the bottom was like carved out and there was plenty of room to stand so I stood up and as soon as I stood up my head started feeling like it was made out of lead I got dizzy and nauseous and I started feeling like my head was spinning and I was basically losing Consciousness I realized that I was about to pass out and there was nobody around there's no phone reception I'm deep under a pyramid they're about to close and I'm literally holding on to the walls for dear life I realized that in order to save energy that I had I would have to like sit down so so I just kind of like lowered myself to the ground and I'm sitting there trying to hold on to my Consciousness and I started realizing that I am about to collapse here under the pyramids nobody knows I'm here I'm not sure if anyone is still going to come down before they close and even if somebody does come down and they do find me how are they going to get me out I'm a pretty big dude so and then to further compound that it's like even in New York City if you call an ambulance you can wait easily 12 15 20 minutes until First Responders arrive thank God in the Orthodox Jewish Community we have an organization called hatala which they arrive in minutes or in seconds but I was in Egypt I had no access to any of these services and I started to I thought I thought that was the end I thought I was going to lose my life right there and it was very weird because in my head there were two things going on the first thought process was like kind of calming it was like wow this is this is how this is how it ends and then the the other side of my brain was like who's going to tell my family what's going to happen I'm not sure if I had my ID on me but I wasn't sure if they'd like be able to figure out who I was or where I came from and all the while as this is going on I'm feeling sicker and sicker and sicker and I'm holding on to Consciousness by a thread and and I was trying to like I'm trying to stay awake I'm trying not to give in to the pressure but I literally was like it was like impossible throughout all my travels I've had some pretty crazy experiences some things that happened in Afghanistan and some things that happened in Lebanon and in Iraq I was detained by the Army I met former members of Isis in all those moments there was there certainly was fear at times but in the back of my mind I always thought maybe I'll have a backup plan I'll figure out you know a way to get out of a situation I can call someone in this situation it was totally different cuz I was completely alone and I felt like I was losing control in all other situations I was able to control my body even if I wasn't able to control the circumstances around me I was able to control my body over here it felt like my life was slipping away and it was the scariest moment of my life um it's also interesting cuz at that point I I was just like really regretting that having gone to Egypt and having gone into the pyramid I was thinking like this whole thing wasn't worth it and look what's going to happen to me now and I was also regretting traveling solo at that point I was like wow I really wish I wish I had someone here with me with my last bits of strength I started to call out for help and thank God two tourists came down the passage they were actually from the Netherlands and I asked them to call for an ambulance call for help and they asked me what was going on I told them that I was passing out and they just asked me to try to stay calm and relaxed um I had water with me I didn't even think to drink it they they made me drink some water and they're like don't worry we're going to stay with you as as long as you know as long as you need us and then someone emerged from deep inside the pyramid so there's a chamber inside where the Pharaoh was buried so somebody emerged from the chamber and he started walking towards the exit which he would have to pass me and he saw me laying on the ground and he asked me what was going on those two Dutch tourists who were there with me explained that I was passing out and they wanted to pour water on me and this guy said do not pour water it's going to make everything much worse he said also that he's uh he was in the military for 17 years or something so he's like I know what I'm talking about anyhow these people stayed with me for a little bit until I started to regain my strength a little bit once I started getting back to myself I was like like wasn't sure if I should stay inside or go back out because I didn't want to go through that crawl space again at the same time I knew there's no other way of getting out number one number two inside the pyramid it was like kind of cool it was much cooler than on the outside baking Under the Sun and I just needed that cool ear so I stayed in the pyramid for I'm not sure if it was 20 minutes or a half hour eventually the I told the Dutch tourists that I was okay and that they can leave and I just sat there catching my breath getting back to my myself drinking water eventually I got out through the same crawl space when I got out of the pyramid back into the sun I was dizzy again but it wasn't anything close to what happened before and I just sat down in the booth with that police officer and I had some more water eventually I got back on my camel and more or less went on with my day this whole experience really shook me up and it made me realize that um perhaps I need to take better care of myself so often when I'm traveling I don't sleep properly I'll get 3 or 4 hours of sleep at night and I won't eat properly like the adrenaline of traveling makes you forget about taking care of yourself sometimes but that's important too maybe I wasn't drinking enough I don't know what caused this I also spoke to some medical professionals they mentioned that perhaps bending over in that position while going through the passageway for four or 5 minutes it doesn't take four or 5 minutes to go down but I was just you know filming and doing my thing so I spent probably too much time in there and then when when I stood up um straight away like the change in blood circulation I've been told that that could have caused it so I'm not sure what it was and I'm definitely going to go have myself checked out just to make sure everything's okay but this is pretty much what happened to me I've uh thank God I'm home now and I am resting I'm taking it easy and I'm really appreciative for every moment that I have and that's the story that's where it is if you've never been to the pyramids you might not understand the severity you might not understand how small this crawl space is and if you've never been to Egypt you might not understand how chaotic things can get over there so I'm really thankful that it was just a medical scare and not a serious issue because God forbid had I passed out this whole thing could have ended very very differently and I'm honestly not sure I'd be making the video right now so I'm very thankful to be here to be alive and to have I'm thankful to have had this experience because I now appreciate everything so much more I'm rethinking a lot of things um maybe next time I'll travel with other people we'll see but thank you all for watching thank you for your love and support thank you for your kind messages I've been overwhelmed by messages from all over the world from people on every platform that I'm on people have been calling my family members my my wife has been getting calls my in-laws have been getting calls my my friends have been getting calls my employers have been getting calls from people who are concerned so I appreciate all the concern thank God I totally fine and once again this was not a position that I wasn't like I put myself in a dangerous situation and something bad happened I think this could have happened to anyone um so that's that thank you for listening and for hearing me out and I hope to see you guys soon