--- title: Man Takes Selfie at Christ the Redeemer Statue Rio de Janeiro Brazil description: Time to pack it up and go home, everybody canonical: https://time.com/2811073/christ-the-redeemer-selfie/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-02T19:06:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:15.221Z og:title: Man Climbs Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue and Takes a Selfie og:description: This selfie beats all other selfies og:url: https://time.com/2811073/christ-the-redeemer-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Climbs Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue and Takes a Selfie twitter:description: This selfie beats all other selfies twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Selfies Atop Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue Beat All Other Selfies by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 2, 2014 7:06 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 2, 2014 7:06 PM UTC Your bathroom mirror selfies are about to look even sadder than usual when you see these crazy epic selfies taken from the top of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: > [](https://twitter.com/theflashpack/status/472400656310235136) > [](https://twitter.com/theflashpack/status/472289162809602048) Photographer Lee Thompson managed to obtain special permission to climb to the top of the statue while in Rio covering the World Cup, he [explains](http://www.theflashpack.co.uk/blog/christselfierio/) in a blog post on The Flash Pack. Though we doubt anyone would give him a hard time, he got a bit defensive about the whole selfie craze and offered this explanation: --- > “” --- Check out the video Thompson and his colleague took during the process: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2811073/christ-the-redeemer-selfie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2811073/christ-the-redeemer-selfie/"},"headline":"These Selfies Atop Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue Beat All Other Selfies","datePublished":"2014-06-02T19:06:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:15.221Z","description":"Time to pack it up and go home, everybody","url":"https://time.com/2811073/christ-the-redeemer-selfie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","World","brazil","selfie","Rio de Janeiro"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2811073/christ-the-redeemer-selfie/","name":"These Selfies Atop Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue Beat All Other Selfies"}}]}] ```