Ashley Cooper / Avalanche on Machapuchare or Fishtail Peak in the Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal. It was caused by a massive block of glacial ice detaching from the summit cliffs, 29th December 2012.

Ashley Cooper / Avalanche on Machapuchare / Fishtail Peak in the Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal. It was caused by a massive block of glacial ice detaching from the summit cliffs. 29th December 2012.

Ashley Cooper / Avalanche on Machapuchare / Fishtail Peak in the Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal. It was caused by a massive block of glacial ice detaching from the summit cliffs. 29th December 2012.

Ashley Cooper / Avalanche on Machapuchare / Fishtail Peak in the Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal. It was caused by a massive block of glacial ice detaching from the summit cliffs. 29th December 2012.

Ashley Cooper / Avalanche on Machapuchare / Fishtail Peak in the Annapurna Himalaya, Nepal. It was caused by a massive block of glacial ice detaching from the summit cliffs. 29th December 2012.

Ashley Cooper / Landslip on the South West Coast Path at Charmouth. This section of the Jurassic Coast has always been prone to landslips due to the unstable nature of the Jurassic clays and shales, but increased hea...

Ashley Cooper / Base jumpers wearing wing suites jumping from the Aiguille Du midi above Chamonix, France. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Base jumpers wearing wing suites jumping from the Aiguille Du midi above Chamonix, France. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Base jumpers wearing wing suites jumping from the Aiguille Du midi above Chamonix, France. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Base jumpers wearing wing suites jumping from the Aiguille Du midi above Chamonix, France. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Base jumpers wearing wing suites preparing to jump from the Aiguille Du midi above Chamonix, France. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Climbers on the Cosmiques Arete, climbing the ladder to access the cable car station, and a base jumper in a wing suite flying past. Mont Blanc from the Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France, Septem...

Ashley Cooper / New glass cage drop experience on the Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / A SAG D (Steam assisted Gravity Drainage) tar sands plant north of Fort McMurray. The SAG D is used to extract the bitumen from the tar sands when they are too deep to be strip mined. August 2012

Ashley Cooper / A SAG D (Steam assisted Gravity Drainage) tar sands plant north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. August 2012

Ashley Cooper / A SAG D (Steam assisted Gravity Drainage) tar sands plant north of Fort McMurray. The SAG D is used to extract the bitumen from the tar sands when they are too deep to be strip mined. August 2012

Ashley Cooper / A SAG D (Steam assisted Gravity Drainage) tar sands plant north of Fort McMurray. The SAG D is used to extract the bitumen from the tar sands when they are too deep to be strip mined. August 2012

Ashley Cooper / Moorland stream waterfalls blowing uphill in storm force winds, with a walker struggling past, Stoer in Assynt, Scotland, UK, October 2013

Ashley Cooper / Moorland stream waterfalls blowing uphill in storm force winds, with a walker struggling past, Stoer in Assynt, Scotland, UK, October 2013

Ashley Cooper / Collapsed coastal road between Skipsea and Ulrome, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Collapsed coastal road near Skipsea, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Collapsed coastal road near Skipsea, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Collapsed coastal road near Skipsea, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Woman standing next to the edge of collapsing coastal cliffs. She is at the location where her house used to before she was evacuated. Aldbrough, Yorkshire, England, East Coast, UK August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Collapsed coastal road at Easington, Yorkshire, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Collapsed coastal road near Aldbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK, August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Second World War lookout post leaning over eroding cliff near Aldbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Second World War pill box on the beach, this was originally on the cliffs above but fell due to coastline erosion. Aldbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Second World War lookout post leaning over eroding cliff near Aldbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Collapsed coastal road at Barmston, Yorkshire, England, UK. August.

Ashley Cooper / Smashed concrete sea defences at Ulrome, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Collapsed coastal road at between Skipsea and Ulrome, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Collapsed coastal road at between Skipsea and Ulrome, Yorkshire, England, UK. August 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Storm Desmond wreaked havoc across Cumbria with floods and destruction. The super saturated ground failed in many places leaving landslip scars on many of the fellsides, this one is on Stone Arthur ab...

Ashley Cooper / Arched Iceberg collapsing into the sea, calved from the Jacobshavn glacier or Sermeq Kujalleq, Greenland, July 2008.

Ashley Cooper / Arched Iceberg collapsing into the sea, calved from the Jacobshavn glacier or Sermeq Kujalleq, Greenland, July 2008.

Ashley Cooper / At 152 Mw the Sloy Hydro Power Station is the largest hydro power station in the UK, Loch Lomond, Scotland, UK. August

Ashley Cooper / Cliff railway linking Lynmouth with Lynton on the north Devon coast. The railway is water powered, with a tank underneath the top carriage filling with water, till it is heavy enough to fall by gravit...

Ashley Cooper / Small collapse of ice from the Russells Glacier, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. July 2008.

Ashley Cooper / Collasing ice from the Russells Glacier, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. July 2008.

Ashley Cooper / The Russells Glacier and pool of meltwater at terminus, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, July.

Stephen Dalton / Falling apple (Malus sp)

David Hall / Mantis shrimp {Odontodactylus scyllarus} Papua New Guinea. Mantis shrimp use their front legs to break the shells of their prey with a force 8,000 times that of gravity. If a human boxer had the same...

Constantinos Petrinos / Smasher Mantis shrimp {Odontodacyylus latirostris} Sulawesi Indonesia. Indo Pacific. This shrimp has a punch 8,000 times faster than gravity. An equivalent human punch would have a force equal to that...

David Shale / Deep sea jellyfish {Periphylla sp} Atlantic ocean

Emanuele Biggi / Trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus hastatus) which has the fastest self-powered predatory strike in the animal kingdom (35 to 64 meters per second, or 78 to 145 miles per hour ) and with a stunning accelerati...