Eric Baccega / Afar men mining salt at Lake Assale. Danakil depression, Afar region, Ethiopia, March 2015.

Robin Chittenden / Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) on statue's head, Norwich Cathedral, Norfolk, UK, June

David Tipling / Tribal performers from Hagen at Sing-sing, Mount Hagen Show in Western Highlands Papua New Guinea. Headress contains Papuan Lorikeet birds and King of Saxony plumes. August 2011

Niall Benvie / Boy and girl dragging a Christmas tree home from the forest, Angus, Scotland, UK, January 2010, model released

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Felling rainforest tree with axe, Mamiraua reserve, Amazonas, Brazil

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Winter hiker with ice axe climbing Beinn Fhada, Glen Affric, Kintail, Scotland, UK, February.

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer, Mike Withers ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere, Lake District, UK. This waterfall very rarely comes into climbable condition, but did so in January 2010

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer, Mike Withers ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere, Lake District, UK. This waterfall very rarely comes into climbable condition, but did in January 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer, Mike Withers ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere, Lake District, UK. This waterfall very rarely comes into climbable condition, but did in January 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Climber with spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere, Lake District, England, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / A climber being blasted by spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere, Lake District, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / Climberwith spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere, Lake District, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / Climbers in spindrift during high winds moving snow above Grasmere, Lake District, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / Climbers on the arete leading up from the Vallee Blanche to the Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Mont Blanc from the Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France, with climbers on the Cosmiques Arete, climbing the ladder to access the cable car station. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Mont Blanc with climbers on the Cosmiques Arete, climbing the ladder to access the cable car station. Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France, September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Mont Blanc with climbers on the Cosmiques Arete, climbing the ladder to access the cable car station. Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France, September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer testing the thickness of ice on sprinkling Tarn to see if it safe to walk on, Lake District, England, UK. March 2013

Ashley Cooper / Climber i on Sgurr Alasdair on the Cuillin Ridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland. March 2006

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer, Mike Withers ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere, Lake District, UK. This waterfall very rarely comes into climbable condition, but did in January 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer, Mike Withers ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere, Lake District, UK. This waterfall very rarely comes into climbable condition, but did in January 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer, Mike Withers ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere, Lake District, UK. This waterfall very rarely comes into climbable condition, but did in January 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Mountaineer, Mike Withers ice climbing in Fisher Place gill above Thilrmere, Lake District, UK. This waterfall very rarely comes into climbable condition, but did in January 2010.

Ashley Cooper / Climbers in a whiteout on Aonach Mhor a Munro near Fort William Scotland. March 2005

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Local villager attending the release of European bison / Wisent (Bison bonasus) in the Tarcu mountains nature reserve, Natura 2000 area, Southern Carpathians, Romania. May 2014.

Paul D Stewart / Four tools of the mesolithic / neolithic period made from Red deer antlers. Dates range from approximately 5000 - 2000 BC. From left (and top) an antler mining pick retrieved from a British flint min...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Salt extraction at Lake Assale on the Danakil depression, Afar men lever out salt blocks for trade. Afar Region, Ethiopia, Africa. November 2014.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Salt extraction at Lake Assale in the Danakil depression, Afar men lever out salt blocks for trade. Afar Region, Ethiopia, Africa. November 2014.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Salt extraction at Lake Assale on the Danakil depression, Afar men extract salt blocks for trade. Afar Region, Ethiopia, Africa. November 2014.

TJ Rich / Portrait of Vedda tribesman carrying axe, Dambana, Sri Lanka, December 2012.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti Pygmy man at hunting camp with ivory headed axe, Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, January 2012.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti Pygmy man at hunting camp with ivory headed axe, Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, January 2012.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Ivory headed axe used by local Mbuti pygmy people, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ruslana Votgyrgina, a young Chukchi girl, using a hatchet to chop firewood at a reindeer herders' summer camp. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, August 2013.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ruslana Votgyrgina, a young Chukchi girl, using a hatchet to chop firewood at a reindeer herders' summer camp. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, August 2013.

Ben Lascelles / Axe of Karma, emblem of the king of death, Mount Kailash. Tibet. June 2010.

Jabruson / 'Babango' or Ebenaceae (Diospyros bipindensis or iturensis) close up detail of leaf. Lots of animals in the rainforest feed on the leaves and fruit and the local tribes use the wood for axe handles...

Roland Seitre / Man with axe, returning from gathering fire wood. Ishaqbini Reserve, Kenya, 2009.

Roland Seitre / Man and woman in Ishaqbini Reserve, returning from fetching fire wood. Man carrying axe, woman the wood. Kenya, 2009.

Pete Oxford / Cork Oak (Quercus suber) bark being harvested for wine corks and other products, San Vicente de Alcantara, Extremadura, Spain

Pete Oxford / Cork Oak (Quercus suber) bark being harvested for wine corks and other products, San Vicente de Alcantara, Extremadura, Spain

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets woman chopping wood with axe at Reindeer / Caribou herders' winter camp. Yamal, Siberia, Russia, 1993.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Forestry worker stripping bark off Pine (Pinus) logs near Gus-Zheleznyy. Ryazan Province, Russia, 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Forestry workers stripping bark off Pine (Pinus) logs near Gus-Zheleznyy. Ryazan Province, Russia, 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Fur clad Inuit hunters cutting frozen meat with axe. Northwest Greenland, 1980.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter chopping frozen Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) meat to feed to Huskies (Canis familiaris) on hunting trip. Northwest Greenland, 1980.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Innu hunter with Dog (Canis familiaris) checking thickness of ice on lake with axe. Southern Labrador, Canada, 1997.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Cree woman chopping firewood at winter camp. Lake Bourinot, Canada, 1988.

Tim Laman / Logging in the Matang mangrove forest, where (Rhizophora apiculata) trees are grown for 30 years and then harvested for charcoal production. This hundred year old program is considered the best manage...

Peter Blackwell / Dead African elephant (Loxodonta africana) shot by poachers, having tusks removed, Kenya

Jabruson / Man cutting down tree with axe - for timber and then for subsistence farming on edge of Bwindi National Park, Uganda

Daniel Gomez / Dry chaco grassland with Axe-breaker tree {Schinopsis lorentzii}, Copo NP, Argentina, South America

Gerry Ellis / African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) fruit being harvested in small plantation in rainforest, western Cameroon

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of cave man protects his mate and child from a marauding cave bear. He wields a hafted axe (from a later period) before a trophy skull of irish elk. Vivid colour lithograph from 'Dr. Schu...

Paul D Stewart / M. Boitard's drawing of a simian fossil man was published after his death in the 1861 book 'Paris Avant Les Hommes' (engraving by Moreau). The book places his time-travelling author in other epochs to...

Barry Bland / Heli hiking on Franz Joseph Glacier, South Island, New Zealand.

Ugo Mellone / Woman from the Wiwa community cutting wood for cooking in village, El Encanto, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. December, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Ice climber climbing the frozen Low Water Beck waterfall, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. February, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Ice climber on a frozen waterfall, Launchy Ghyll, Thirlmere, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK February, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Ice climbers climbing frozen waterfall, Launchy Ghyll, Thirlmere, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK February, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Ice climber climbing frozen waterfall, Whorneyside Force, below Crinkle Crags, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. February, 2021.

Patricio Robles Gil / Logger - man carrying axe and a chainsaw, Sierra Chincua Sanctuary, Mexico.

Nigel Cattlin / A wooden artificial sand martin bank and bat roost at the East Devon Axe Estuary Wetlands Nature Reserve near Seaton in Devon

Nigel Cattlin / Common hemp-nettle (Galeopsis tetrahit) plants at the end of their flowering on the Axe Estuary Wetlands Nature Reserve in East Devon

Karine Aigner / Sala Ozwa, a women's association, holds an axe which she uses to cultivate a shared field in the village of Mbanzi. Democratic Republic of Congo. May 2017.

Guy Edwardes / The Axe Valley at sunset Musbury, Devon, England, August 2006