Swiss guards parading, Vatican, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Palaeolithic axes, Southwest Desert, Libya, North Africa, Africa

King Harold's foot soldieres with spears and battle axes, Bayeux Tapestry, Normandy, France, Europe

Colombian shaman, , amazon, makuna indians, makuna closeup, makuna workin

Dani tribesman wearing penis gourd, Baliem Valley, West Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

A mountaineer ice climbing on Low Water Beck near Coniston, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Caucasian boy chopping log with axe

Detail of Terracotta funerary krater. Greek, Attic, Geometric, ca. 725 B.C. Atributed to the Trachones Workshop.

Ice Climbing in Pyha, Lapland, Finland

Tree trunk and worker in a sawmill, Welschnofen, South Tyrol, Alto Adige, Italy, Europe

Man chippping woold, campfire in foreground, Sacra Valley, Province of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy

Prehistoric weapons and tools in a cave, Uyuni Highlands, Bolivia

Tuifllauf, Devil's Procession, Fulpmes, Stubai Valley, Austria, Europe

Tuifllauf, Devil's Procession, Fulpmes, Stubai Valley, Austria, Europe

Solar panels mounted on so called Movers, moving in circles around their axes with the movement of the sun, Gut Erlasee Solar Park, Arnstein, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

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Solar panels mounted on so called Movers, moving in circles around their axes with the movement of the sun, Gut Erlasee Solar Park, Arnstein, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Butcher's sign, Spalt, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Solar panels mounted on so called Movers, moving in circles around their axes with the movement of the sun, Gut Erlasee Solar Park, Arnstein, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Ax from the young stone age

Three flint axes from the stone age

Solar panels mounted on so called Movers, moving in circles around their axes with the movement of the sun, Gut Erlasee Solar Park, Arnstein, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Aerial Arab village of Ax'al in the lower Galilee, Israel

A man wields his ice ax while ice climbing a frozen waterfall near Ouray, Colorado. (solar flare)

Philippe Magnin, ice climbs a frozen waterfall

Lizz Grenard at the Ouray Ice Festival uses ice axes and crampons as tools and a rope and harness for safety. The Ouray Ice Festival is held once a year during the Martin Luther King weekend in Ouray, Colorado in the Uncompahgre Gorge.

Steve Giddings makes his way up a frozen waterfall at the Ouray Ice Festival in Ouray, Colorado. Ice climbers require ice axes, crampons, rope and harness as well as a great deal of balance and focus. The Ouray Ice Festival is located in the Uncompahgre Gorge and is held once a year during Martin Luther King weekend.

Kelly Cordes makes his way up a frozen waterfall using ice axes and crampons as well as balance and focus. The Ouray Ice Park is located in the Uncompahgre Gorge in Ouray Colorado. The Park is funded mostly by the Ouray Ice Festival that happens every Martin Luther King weekend and by the festivals corporate sponsers.

A team preparing the mat_rial for climbing

man ice climbing

A climber with two ice axes

Eric Sast climbing an icy cliff with axes.