CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. Away from modern civilization, children living in the Simien Mountains spend their gruelling days herding, or carrying, animals and walking miles through the rocky terrain. From the age of five these children are responsible for goats and sheep in the highlands and when they do rest, the boys and girls are schooled in classrooms made from mud, rocks and wood. German photographer Mario Gerth trekked 3,000 metres up the Ethiopian mountain range to visit this group of Tigray people and their hardy children and witness their unorthodox lifestyle.
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
LIKE SUPERMAN carrying a slimy Lois Lane through the air this frog is treating its mate to a flying lesson .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .