BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED. Crossing a 61 metre stretch, the brave adventurers leave their clothes behind and wear only a single safety rope secured tightly around their waists, ankles, and in some cases - even their private parts. These risqué photographs were taken by Philadelphia photographer Jared Alden, 31, after his love of traveling and adventure merged into his passion for photography. Captured at an unknown slacklining location in the remote Utah dessert, these photographs show thrill seekers getting their kit off for the ultimate slacklining experience at the GGBY highline festival.
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
The view from this rooftop pool is sure to make most holidaymakers envious .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
A toddler has shrugged off death an incredible 10 times thanks to his parents who revive him with the kiss of life every two weeks .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .