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.
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .
A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
