An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time. The eerie mining town located in Bodie Hills in Mono County, east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, sits alone in the desert, 75 miles south east of Lake Tahoe. Professional photographer Julien McRoberts, 50, photographed several of the 170 buildings within Bodie, including the once heaving church, saloon and general store. Bodie was a gold mining camp in 1859 and by 1880 it had become a bustling town with a population of 2,700. It wasn’t until 1910 that the town was in decline, as gold miners moved out of Bodie and onto more promising land.
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BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
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A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
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WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .