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.
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
