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.
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .