COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society. Known as sadhus, they shun all home comforts for a life spent inside caves, forests and temples and can be found across India and Nepal. German banker and photographer Mario Gerth decided to find and photograph the sadhu people. The 38-year-old of Erfurt, Germany, says: “I have been obsessed with the sadhus for many years and set off in 2013 to look for them.
TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
