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.
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
GLIDING through the water, these delightful frogs show off their vibrant colours as they practice their FROG crawl .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
