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.
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
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 .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .