High up in the mountains and thousands of feet off the ground, a party of climbers were in for a shock as they came face to face with this frightening leap of faith. These daunting photographs were captured by Italian photographer Nicola Bombassei, 38, after he unexpectedly stumbled across the 3,000 meter high drop, at Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Italy. 'The drop should have been fitted with a big wooden board over it, so that climbers can pass the cleft easily,' said Nicola. 'But when we arrived we couldn't find the board anywhere, and it was never an option not to complete the climb, so we had no choice but to take on the jump.
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
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 .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
A luxury caravan with a price tag of ONE MILLION DOLLARS is due to hit the road later this year .
