Cleaning the world’s most famous monuments

Thorsten Mowes has a more intimate knowledge of the world’s most famous monuments than perhaps anyone else on the planet — because he’s spent his entire career cleaning them. As a cultural cleaning expert with nearly 25 years’ experience, he has been commissioned to make wonders all over the world shine like new — from the London Eye ferris wheel to the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio. The places he has been to, stood on top of or even hung halfway down also include Mount Rushmore and the Space Needle in the U.S., and the Forbidden City in China. In total, he has been involved in more than 80 cultural cleaning projects. (Caters News)

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