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.
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
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From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
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 .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .