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.
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
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 .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .