COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society. Known as sadhus, they shun all home comforts for a life spent inside caves, forests and temples and can be found across India and Nepal. German banker and photographer Mario Gerth decided to find and photograph the sadhu people. The 38-year-old of Erfurt, Germany, says: “I have been obsessed with the sadhus for many years and set off in 2013 to look for them.
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
The view from this rooftop pool is sure to make most holidaymakers envious .
A mischievous fox cub demonstrates his playful side by biting his sibling’s tail .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .