COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them. Climbing heights ranging from forty to a few hundred feet, they brave the ice towers as they make their way to the top. These amazing photographs were captured by Canadian outdoor adventure photographer Alain Denis, 41, after he decided to explore the frozen waterfalls in the Laurentian mountain area in Quebec, Canada.
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
THIS is the awesome moment an Osprey catches its prey travelling at 50mph, giving new meaning to FAST FOOD .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .