Philippe Clement / Traditional carrelet fishing hut with lift net on the beach at sunset, Loire-Atlantique, Pays-de-la-Loire, France September 2011

Philippe Clement / Traditional carrelet fishing hut with lift net on the beach at sunset, Loire-Atlantique, Pays-de-la-Loire, France September 2011

Juergen Freund / Mascot 'Waddy', part of a conservation project for the Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris), getting a lift home on a motorcycle. North Palawan, Philippines, May 2009.

Eric Baccega / Cable car over Mer de Glace glacier, Mont Blanc, Alps, France, July 2001

Kim Taylor / Floating colonies of Stantor (ciliate protozoa) with gas bubbles used to lift colonies.

Sue Flood / Grey whale mother tries to lift her calf as Killer whales (Orcinus orca) attack, Monterey, Pacific, California USA

Ashley Cooper / The Krakken, a jack up barge, constructing wind turbines of the Walney offshore wind farm, lifts a nacelle into place. Cumbria, England, UK. September 2011

Ashley Cooper / The Krakken, a jack up barge, constructing wind turbines of the Walney offshore wind farm, uses a specialist cradle to lift a turbine blade into place. Cumbria, England, UK. September 2011

Ashley Cooper / The Krakken, a jack up barge, constructing wind turbines of the Walney offshore wind farm, uses a specialist cradle to lift a turbine blade into place. Cumbria, England, UK. September 2011

Ashley Cooper / The Krakken, a jack up barge, constructing wind turbines of the Walney offshore wind farm, uses a specialist cradle to lift a turbine blade into place. Cumbria, England, UK. September 2011

Ashley Cooper / Jack up barge, The Goliath lifting a 320 tonne transition piece into place on the Walney Offshore windfarm project, off Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, UK. July 2011

Ashley Cooper / Technicians fitting solar photo voltaic panels to a house roof in Ambleside, Cumbria, UK. August 2011

Ashley Cooper / A technician fitting solar photo voltaic panels to a house roof in Ambleside, Cumbria, UK. August 2011

Ashley Cooper / Modern cable car system in La Paz, Bolivia. October 2015.

Ashley Cooper / Old ski club hut on the peak of Chacaltaya (5,395m), until 2009 Chacaltaya had a glacier which supported the worlds highest ski lift at over 17,000 feet. The glacier finally disappeared completely in...

Ashley Cooper / Peak of Chacaltaya (5,395m), in the Bolivian Andes, which until 2009 had a glacier supporting the world's highest ski lift at over 17,000 feet. The glacier finally disappeared completely in 2009 due t...

Ashley Cooper / Peak of Chacaltaya (5,395m), which until 2009 had a glacier which supported the worlds highest ski lift at over 17,000 feet. The glacier finally disappeared completely in 2009 due to climate change in...

Ashley Cooper / View towards Chacaltaya (5,395m) from La Paz, which until 2009 had a glacier which supported the worlds highest ski lift at over 17,000 feet. The glacier finally disappeared completely in 2009. Bolivi...

Ashley Cooper / Old ski club hut on the peak of Chacaltaya (5,395m), until 2009 Chacaltaya had a glacier which supported the worlds highest ski lift at over 17,000 feet. The glacier finally disappeared completely in...

Ashley Cooper / Old ski club hut on the peak of Chacaltaya (5,395m), until 2009 Chacaltaya had a glacier which supported the worlds highest ski lift at over 17,000 feet. The glacier finally disappeared completely in...

Philippe Clement / Falkirk Wheel, rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK, June 2017

Pete Oxford / People using crane to lift tranquillised Elephant (Loxodonta africana) onto truck. The Elephants had been darted from a helicopter in order to be returned to the reserve they had escaped from. Zimbabw...

Willem Kolvoort / Lift construction in flooded slate quarry on Belnahua island. Scotland. 1996

Benjamin Barthelemy / Traditional carrelet fishing hut at dusk with lift net on the beach at Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef, Loire-Atlantique, France September 2016

Juan Carlos Munoz / Ski lift, Mount Hermon ski resort, Israel, November.

Juan Carlos Munoz / View from ski lift, Mount Hermon ski resort, Israel, November.

Nick Upton / Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) using its front legs to lift and add mud and vegetation onto its dam, in woodland enclosure at night, Devon Beaver Project, run by Devon Wildlife Trust, Devon, UK, May....

Richard Du Toit / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) using foot and trunk to lift plant for feeding, Chobe National Park, Botswana

Pete Oxford / People using crane to lift tranquillised Elephant (Loxodonta africana). The Elephants had been darted from a helicopter in order to be returned to the reserve they had escaped from. Zimbabwe, November...

Pete Oxford / People attaching tranquilized Elephant (Loxodonta africana) to crane to lift it onto truck for relocation. The Elephants had been darted from a helicopter in order to be returned to the reserve they h...

Radomir Jakubowski / Ibex (Capra ibex) on mountain with ski lift, Bernese Alps, Switzerland, July.

Michael Pitts / Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) in threat display with person looking scared, on the cable car lift, Gibraltar, December.

Chris Mattison / Dolomiti Lucane mountain range at sunset with low clouds. With ski lift cables visible in bottom right, Basilicata, Italy. October 2013.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstr / Ski resort with ski lifts, Pamporovo, Western Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria, May 2013.

Gavin Hellier / Chair lift above Four Valleys region, Valais, Verbier, Bernese Alps, Switzerland January 2009

Gavin Hellier / Chair lift above Four Valleys region, Valais, Verbier, Bernese Alps, Switzerland January 2009

Juan Carlos Munoz / Tourists being lowered into Thrihnukagigur volcano, a dormant volcano now used for tours, by cable lift. Iceland, Europe, June 2012

Juan Carlos Munoz / Tourists being lowered into Thrihnukagigur volcano, a dormant volcano now used for tours, by cable lift. Iceland, Europe, June 2012

Alex Hyde / Disused iron wellhead, lift mechanism and mine works. Magpie Mine, a disused lead mine, Peak District National Park, UK, March 2008.

Merryn Thomas / Car being loaded onto passenger ferry "Scillonian III" at Penzance Quay, before travelling to the Isles of Scilly, UK.

Merryn Thomas / Car being loaded onto passenger ferry "Scillonian III" at Penzance Quay, before travelling to the Isles of Scilly, UK.

Philippe Clement / Traditional carrelet fishing huts with lift net on the beach at Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef, Loire-Atlantique, France September 2011

Philippe Clement / Traditional carrelet fishing hut with lift net on the beach at Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef, Loire-Atlantique, France September 2011

Philippe Clement / Traditional carrelet fishing hut with lift net on the beach at dusk, Loire-Atlantique, Pays-de-la-Loire, France September 2011

Philippe Clement / Traditional carrelet fishing hut with lift net on the beach at sunset, Loire-Atlantique, Pays-de-la-Loire, France September 2011

Carol Walker / Young male cremello Wild horse / mustang Cremosso that had been rounded up from a McCullough Peak herd and put up for adoption, trainer Rich Scottteaching horse to lift front leg, Colorado, USA, July...

Nick Upton / View of the highest peaks in the Julian Alps including Mount Triglav (2864m) from 1535m at the top of the Vogel cable car lift, Triglav National Park, Slovenia, July 2010.

Nick Upton / Overview of Lake Bohinj from 1535m at the top of the Vogel cable car lift, with 2864m Mount Triglav, the highest peak in the Julian Alps, in the background, Triglav National Park, Slovenia, July 2010.

Nick Upton / Overview of the Vogel cable car lift on its way up from Ucanc to the 1535m top station, with the north end of Lake Bohinj below and the Julian Alps in the background, Triglav National Park, Slovenia,...

Nick Upton / Overview of the north end of Lake Bohinj from 1535m at the top of the Vogel cable car lift, with 2864m Mount Triglav, the highest peak in the Julian Alps, in the background, Triglav National Park, Slo...

Peter Cairns / A line of skiers being towed by a lift. Cairngorm ski centre, Scotland, February.

Peter Cairns / Ski slope and ski lift with skiers skiing. Cairngorm ski centre, Scotland, February.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Workers in a lift at the end of their shift at the October Mine near Norilsk. Western Siberia, Russia, 2000.

Alan Williams / Male Dunlin (Calidris alpina) performing one wing lift display and calling against rival male on shoreline feeding territory, Yell, Shetland, UK, May

Alan Williams / Male Dunlin (Calidris alpina) performing one wing lift display and calling against rival male on shoreline, feeding territory, Yell, Shetland, UK, May

Alex Hyde / Damage caused to mountainside by expanding skiing industry, showing digger and distant chair lift pylons. Austrian Alps. June 2007

Peter Lewis / Cliff lift to West Beach Restaurant and Bar, West Beach, Bournemouth, Dorset, UK

Nick Turner / Lift bridge on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal at Talybont on Usk, Brecon Beacons, Wales

Steven David Miller / Skyrail from Kuranda to Cairns, passing over rainforest habitat, Barren Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia

Suzi Eszterhas / Spotted Hyena {Crocuta crocuta} mother trying to lift 6-week cub, Masai Mara Conservancy, Kenya

Suzi Eszterhas / Spotted Hyena {Crocuta crocuta} mother trying to lift 9-11 week cub, Masai Mara Conservancy, Kenya

Suzi Eszterhas / Spotted Hyena {Crocuta crocuta} mother trying to lift 8-10 week cub, Masai Mara Conservancy, Kenya

Suzi Eszterhas / Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) mother trying to lift playful 8 to 10 week old cub, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Suzi Eszterhas / Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) mother trying to lift playful 8 to 10 week old cub, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Suzi Eszterhas / Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) mother trying to lift playful 8 to 10 week old cub, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Chris Gomersall / Skiers at ski lift Glenshee, Tayside, Scotland

Kim Taylor / Floating colonies of Stantor (ciliate protozoa) with gas bubbles used to lift colonies.

Pete Oxford / Brown Capuchin (Cebus apella) preparing to lift a rock hammer that is extremely heavy compared to the monkey's body weight to crack open palm nuts it has placed in small pits in the anvil rock surface...

Pete Oxford / Brown Capuchin (Cebus apella) preparing to lift a rock hammer that is extremely heavy compared to the monkey's body weight to crack open a palm nut it has placed in a small pit in the anvil rock surfa...

Pete Oxford / Brown Capuchin (Cebus apella) preparing to lift a rock hammer that is extremely heavy compared to the monkey's body weight to crack open palm nuts it has placed in small pits in the anvil rock surface...

Tui De Roy / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) using ground effect lift mechanism when flying over water, Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Eric Baccega / Tranquilised Polar bear being prepared for relocation {Ursus maritimus} Churchill, Canada

John Downer / Indian elephant (Elephas maximus) pulling log. Western Ghats, India. Depending on their size, elephants can lift between 200-400kg with their trunks. They would win a bronze weight lifting medal in an...

David Fleetham / Commercial hard hat diver fills lift bags, with blue striped snapper (Lutjanus kasmira) schooling in foreground, Hawaii. Model released.

Onne van der Wal / Maximus on a travel lift before the 2006 Newport to Bermuda Race, Rhode Island, USA.

Philip Stephen / Fishing vessel undergoing painting and maintenance in an enclosed ship lift facility at Peterhead harbour. May 2005.

Onne van der Wal / Maximus on a travel lift before the 2006 Newport to Bermuda Race, Rhode Island, USA.

Angelo Giampiccolo / A lift holding an Alfamarine 47 luxury motoryacht in a sling, ready to launch her into the water. The superyacht was built at the Cantieri Alfamarine, Fiumicino, Lazio, Italy.

Onne van der Wal / Pressure washing cruising yacht "Lily Pad" at the end of the season.

Onne van der Wal / Pressure washing a cruising yacht at the end of the season.

Onne van der Wal / Pressure washing cruising yacht "Lily Pad" at the end of the season.

Onne van der Wal / Pressure washing a cruising yacht at the end of the season.

Eric Baccega / Colourful rocks inside the magma chamber of Thrihnukagigur volcano with torch light from an open cable lift. Yellow is sulfur oxide, grey and black is basalt rock and green is copper. Rust-red colorat...

Eric Baccega / Tourists in the open cable lift descending into Thrihnukagigur volcano, a dormant volcano now used for tours, Iceland. September, 2023. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Eric Baccega / Tourists in the open cable lift preparing for descent into Thrihnukagigur volcano, a dormant volcano now used for tours, Iceland. September, 2023. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Eric Baccega / Tourists in open cable lift descending into Thrihnukagigur volcano, a dormant volcano now used for tours, Iceland. September, 2023. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Eric Baccega / Tourists in open cable lift preparing for descent into Thrihnukagigur volcano, a dormant volcano now used for tours, Iceland. September, 2023. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Alex Hyde / Phoretic mites (Poecilochirus sp.) hitching a lift on the iridescent undercarriage of a Dor beetle (Geotrupes sp.) travelling with the beetle between the dung piles on which it feeds, Wigwell, Derbysh...

Jabruson Motion / Heavy duty fork-lift wheel loading hardwood timber onto a trailer. The trees arrive here via the Congo River, and are then stripped and numbered for shipment and export, 'La Grand Port' Shipyard, Ki...

Jabruson Motion / Heavy duty fork-lift wheel loader driving through frame carrying rainforest hardwood for export, 'La Grand Port' Shipyard, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Jabruson Motion / Heavy duty fork-lift wheel loader driving into frame to load a hardwood log onto the truck. The trees are transported here via the Congo River, and are then stripped and sorted for exportation, 'La G...

Bruce Thomson / Mountain grasshopper / katydid (Acripeza reticulata) portrait showing camouflaged / reticulated patternation, when disturbed they lift wing coverts reavealing striking purple and red stripes to startl...

Doug Gimesy / Emily Small, founder of Goongerah Wombat Orphanage, wildlife rescuer and carer, taking the lift up to her Melbourne inner city apartment during the CoVid-19 lockdown.Preston, Victoria, Australia, July...

Doug Gimesy / Emily Small, founder of Goongerah Wombat Orphanage, wildlife rescuer and carer, taking the lift up to her Melbourne inner city apartment during the CoVid-19 lockdown.Preston, Victoria, Australia, July...