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The Wider Image: Bolivias cholita climbers

An Aymara indigenous woman practises climbing on the Huayna Potosi mountain, Bolivia April 6, 2016. Two years ago, about a dozen Aymara indigenous women, aged 42 to 50, who worked as porters and cooks for mountaineers at base camps and mountain climbing refuges on the steep, glacial slopes of Huayna Potosi, an Andean peak outside La Paz, Bolivia, put on crampons under their wide traditional skirts and started to do?their own climbing. REUTERS/David Mercado SEARCH "CHOLITA CLIMBERS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Torre Cepsa (Cepsa Tower) skyscraper, Torre PwC skyscraper

L-R: Torre Cepsa (Cepsa Tower) skyscraper, Torre PwC skyscraper, Torre de Cristal (Crystal Tower) skyscraper and Torre Espacio (Space Tower) skyscraper at the Four Towers Business Area are seen as sun sets in Madrid, Spain, March 3, 2016. Picture taken from Paracuellos del Jarama, a village outside Madrid. REUTERS/Sergio Perez TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Slaughtered rats are displayed for sale at the market of Canh Nau village, west of Hanoi

Slaughtered rats are displayed for sale at the market of Canh Nau village, 40 km (25 miles) west of Hanoi December 25, 2011. Canh Nau is known as rat meat village where people eat rats as well as other kinds of meat from animals such as pigs, cows and chickens. One kilogram of slaughtered rats costs 80,000 dong ($3.80). Rats were eaten as a result of poverty in the past but now they are eaten at the end of every month of the lunar calendar as a special dish and local media reported that an average of a hundred kilograms of rat are sold at the village per day. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY FOOD TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)