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.
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .