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.
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Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
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AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
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A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .