COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice. The ice emits a blue glow as the climbers make their way down and move through the glacier. The stunning photographs were captured by American glacier trekking guide Jared Carlson on a trip to the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. The 36-year-old was joined by climbing friend Jason Nelson, 37, as the pair explored the moulin, which is a circular, vertical well-like shaft within a glacier.
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
