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.
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .