A team of climbers, including 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura, stand on the summit of Mount Everest. Miura, who has had four heart operations, reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to conquer the world’s highest mountain. He took the standard southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 60 years ago, reaching the top of the 8,848 metre (29,028 feet) mountain at roughly 9:00 a.m. local time (0300 GMT). He was accompanied by three other Japanese climbers, including his son, and six Nepali sherpas. (REUTERS/Kyodo)

Bluegrass Sergeants Snow Queen has been crowned the winner of gourmet yoghurt brand The Collective’s 2013 beauty competition ‘Cow of the Year’. Above. model and makeup artist Tabby Richards pampers the cow on the Millenium Bridge in London. (9Spider-PR)

Photographer Ronald Wittek watched from close range as a bear cleans himself in a pool before falling asleep under a tree in the Bavarian Forest, Germany. (Ronald Wittek/Arco Images/Solent News)

Photographer Daniel Botelho photographed this oceanic white tip shark swimming past a diver off the coast of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. (Daniel Botelho / Barcroft Media)

A house from 1562 waits to be restored in a pears tree field outside San Felice sul Panaro a year after the Emilia Romagna earthquake. Reconstruction efforts in Emilia Romagna in Italy are proceeding slowly a year after two powerful earthquakes wrecked homes and businesses in this rich farming and medical industry region. (Olivier Morin/AFP)

Vladimir Kouklatchev performs with a cat during a show at the Moscow Cat Theatre. The theatre was founded by his father, famous Russian clown Yuri Kouklatchev, shortly before the fall of the USSR. (YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Stuntwoman Leigh-Anne Vizer is held by a 4.5 metre King Kong hand 300 metres above the city of Melbourne during a photoshoot at the Eureka Skydeck, the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, in Melbourne, Australia. The King Kong show is set to open in June in Melbourne. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Two baby opossums play on a branch, with one using its tail to cling on, while photographer Ronald Wittek took this photo while visiting a farm in Minnesota, USA. (Ronald Wittek/Arco Images/Solent News)

A silhouette of short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) in flight at dusk, Worlaby Carrs, Lincolnshire. This image is part of a new outdoor street-gallery exhibition that has been launched on the South Bank of the River Thames in London, documenting the best of the 2020VISION wildlife project. (REX FEATURES)

Photographer Rainer Schimpf photographing sharks off the coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. (Rainer Schimpf / Barcroft Me)