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 .

STANDING on its hind legs, a nosey polar bear presses its paws against the window of a truck and takes a peek at the tourist inside .

CHUCKLING away, this little seal appears to find something hilarious .

Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

A gang whose £1-million supercar scam has echoes of the film Gone In Sixty Seconds has been jailed for a total of 12 years .

THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .

A father-of-one stunned his wife of twenty-five years after revealing his secret love of POLE DANCING .

SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .

WENDY Randall, 16, from Kent is now training to be a bodybuilder after recovering from anorexia .

Puckering up for a kiss, an affectionate pair of owls share a smooch for Valentine's Day .

NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .