RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles. Soaring through the air at 200mph, the eagles race to reach their keeper, in order to win first place in an annual festival, which celebrates the heritage of the Kazakh people. The Golden Eagle festival is held every October in Bayan-Olgii, a province in western Mongolia. Belgian photographer and software developer Stefan Cruysberghs captured the photographs when he travelled to the region to witness the occasion first-hand.
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .
THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .
Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .
Those with a fear of flying and a ticket to Lukla Airport will want to look away now .
A man has made a SPUD-TACULAR amount of money sending potatoes in the post .
Gabrielle Dale, 26, was subjected to seven years of coercive control and physical abuse at the hands of her violent boyfriend Sean Owen, 29 .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .