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.
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .