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This is the most beautiful iceberg I've ever seen.

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Highest unicycle descent in Iran
Picture: Caters News Agency



This bizarre cloud formation has formed rings round the top of a mountain. The lenticular cloud sits atop the towering Mount Fuji, in Japan.
Picture: Akihiro Shibata/Solent News & Photo Agency



Photographer Adam Opris has captured newly-engaged couples celebrating their exciting news in a series of stunning underwater photo shoot
Picture: Adam Opris/REX



This aggressive falcon in South Bay, Los Angeles, didn't enjoy model plane enthusiasts getting too close to her nest - taking down their gliders in mid-air. The peregrine attacked at least two planes which fell to the ground.
Picture: JOHN QIU/ CATERS NEWS



Extreme sports enthusiast Erik Roner recently attached 90 helium-filled balloons to a sun lounger and rose to a staggering 8,000 ft (2,438 m). Among the calculations that were done in advance of his flight, Roner and his team worked out how much helium would be required to lift him off the ground, how high he would rise and how far would he might travel. A backup plan was also worked out in case anything went wrong. On the day of the stunt, around 20 volunteers helped Roner and his team to inflate the balloons with 50 tanks-worth of helium before attaching them to the lounger. The lounger was released from the cables holding it to the ground and Roner was lifted up by the balloons along with a shotgun for bursting them and a parachute to let him float back down.Picture: WENN


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A man takes a picture with his mobile phone through heavy snow at the Dark Hedges in Antrim, Northern Ireland. The Dark Hedges, named for its unusual tree formation has become a recent tourist attraction after the setting was filmed as part of the hit HBO television series Game of Thrones which is filmed extensively in the province.
Picture: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images



A heavy hail storm on Tuesday evening in Morecambe covered the town's Sandylands Promenade and adjacent beach turning it temporarily white. The Met Office has issued ice and snow warnings across most of the country for Wednesday.
Picture: Photographing_North/Demotix/Corbis



Sunlight is caught on icicles
Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA



Exmoor ponies enjoy the first snowfall
Picture: Guy Harrop



A pheasant in the snow on the South Pennines
Picture: Lynne Cameron/PA


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This year's Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition winners have been announced. Greg Whitton from Solihull won the Light on the Land prize with his evocative photograph of a fleeting moment of stunning light illuminating Icelandic peaks. His reaction to news of his win was, ‘Wow, just wow! With so many great images entered, to come out on top for Light on the Land is just amazing. Thank you!’ Images from the competition will be exhibited at The Telegraph Outdoor Adventure & Travel Show between 13th - 16th Feburary 2015 at London ExCeL.
Picture: Greg Whitton



An Asian elephant performs during the 39th Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival in Monaco
Picture: REUTERS/Lionel Cironneau



A photographer has managed to catch the moment a dolphin was attacked and killed by a 3.5m tiger shark just metres off Burwood Beach, Newcastle, New South Wales. The predator bit large chunks from the dolphin, which eventually succumbed to its injuries and died. The incident comes after the presence of a 5m great white, spotted daily since Saturday, prompting the closure of the city's beaches for six days.Picture:
Peter Lorimer/Newspix/REX



Clouds of ash and gas rise from the cone of a new volcanic island some 65 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa. The Tongan volcano has created a substantial new island since it began erupting in December, spewing out huge volumes of rock and dense ash that has killed nearby vegetation, officials said. The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry said the volcano was erupting from two vents, one on the uninhabited island of Hunga Ha'apai and the other underwater about 100 metres offshore.
Picture: AFP/Getty



Onboard Volvo Ocean Racing yacht Team Alvimedica as it sails around the south of Sri Lanka and enters the Bay of Bengal during Leg 3 between Abu Dhabi, UAE and Sanya, China.
Picture: Amory Ross/Team Alvimedica/Volvo Ocean Race via Getty



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Solar Impulse's founder, chairman and pilot Bertrand Piccard (R) answers questions from journalists as a Cargolux Boeing 747 cargo lands before loading the experimental aircraft 'Solar Impulse 2' (HB-SIB) at the airbase in Payerne, Switzerland.
Picture: EPA



This is the moment a photographer managed to capture a squirrel doing its best Superman impression. The fearless red squirrel was caught soaring through the air in an impressive display of aerial acrobatics, flying from tree-to-tree. Photographer, Andrey Chernyh snapped the squirrel showcasing its super powers in a forest in Novosibirsk, Russia as it flew around the canopies above.
Picture: ANDREY CHERNYH / CATERS NEWS



Members of Cirque Du Soleil perform the contortion act during the dress rehearsal for Kooza by Cirque Du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall in London
Picture: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images



High heel slackliner Faith Dickey carefully negotiates a thin wire high above a stunning landscape during the Womens Highline Meeting in the Czech Republic. Faith, from Austin in Texas, USA, was joined by adrenaline junkies Basia Sobanska 27 and Ela Ostrowska, 26, who wore their own accessories.
Picture: Faith Dickey/Caters



Severin Freund of Germany lifts off during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Vierschanzentournee (Four Hills Tournament) in Innsbruck, Austria
Picture: Stanko Gruden/Agence Zoom/Getty Images



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It's Rocky the Squirrel (Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon) flying to the next tree to get a nut.

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A boy looks at the digital art installation 'Light in Dark' created by teamLab, a collaborative of Japanese digital artists, during a special exhibition of 'Shake! Art Exhibition! and Learn and Play!
Picture: EPA



People gather and bathe on Copacabana beach as the sun sets in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilians normally don't bathe at nightfall in Rio but the summer heat wave has seen people bathing into the night in the ocean. U.S. government scientists reported that 2014 was the hottest year on record, with temperatures globally measuring 1.24F (0.69C) higher than the 20th-century average.Picture: Mario Tama/Getty Images



Photographer Paul Kingston spent the coldest night of the year so far braving the freezing temperatures to capture the clear skies above northern England
Picture: Paul Kingston/NNP



An aerial view shot taken from a helicopter shows people attending a mass rally against French magazine Charlie Hebdo's satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and people praying around the Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia
Picture: EPA



This is the death-defying moment a thrill-seeking kayaker plunges 30ft from the top of a ferocious icy waterfall. The heart-stopping image was captured on camera by celebrated extreme sports photographer Eric Parker and show kayaker Todd Wells tackling the 30ft drop of the Little White Salmon River, a tributary of the Columbia River in Washington, USA. Adrenaline junkie Todd is no stranger to danger but hurtling down the gnarliest of white-water depths, with icy cold water surrounding him was a lifetime highlight.
Picture: ERIC PARKER / CATERS NEWS


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A car is abandoned on the A939 road between Cockbridge and Tomintoul in Tomintoul, Scotland. Temperatures in parts of Scotland have fallen to as low as -12C during what forecasters say has been the coldest night of the winter so far.
Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images



A fearless photographer has risked his life to capture the inside of a rarely seen Siberian ice cave. Andrey Grachev, 35, journeyed across layers of cracked ice that could give way at any moment to capture the incredible frozen grotto. Accompanied by a trusted guide, Andrey, from Moscow was driven across the unstable frozen waters of the Baikal Lake in Eastern Siberia.
Picture: ANDREY GRACHEY / CATERS NEWS



A lone snowboarder makes her way down a slope time after time, turning it into what looks like a giant maze. Although most slopes have tracks left on them, it is rare to see so many deep tracks like this one. The photo was taken by 23-year-old Alina Linnik, when she visited the Chunkurchak Ski Resort in Kyrgyzstan.
Picture: Alina Linnik/Solent News



A rhino calf appears to show off an abnormally large horn but it is just a trick of the camera. As the young animal walks in front of his mother made it appear as if his own tiny bump had grown to epic proportions. The bizarre image was captured by Sazar de Bruin, the manager of a distribution centre in Salt Rock, South Africa.
Picture: Sazar de Bruin / Barcroft Media



Valerie Murzak of Club Swizzle performs her contortion act ahead of their world premiere at Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
Picture: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images


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