Devotees wear costumes made of banana leaves as they head to church to attend mass as part of a religious festival, in honor of St. John the Baptist, also known locally as the “mud people” festival, in Aliaga town, Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, on June 24, 2017. Farmers coated in mud paraded in Philippine villages on June 24 to mark one of the Catholic nation's most colourful religious festivals. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)

A man helps another make his way through deep mud at the site of a landslide at the Koslanda tea plantation near Haldummulla October 30, 2014. Hopes of finding survivors under the mud and rubble of a landslide in south-central Sri Lanka had run out by first light on Thursday, though a government minister cut the estimated death toll to more than 100 from 300 the previous night. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)

The German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) has selected its Nature Photographer of the Year 2020. Here: Winner, Other animals. Jens Cullmann – Danger in the Mud. Crocodile in a drying pool. (Photo by Jens Cullmann/2020 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year)

A Bukusu youth stands covered in mud in preparation for a circumcision ritual in Kenya's western region of Bungoma August 9, 2014. Circumcision rituals, which take place in August, are celebrated amongst some Kenyan tribes as an annual rite of passage into adulthood. (Photo by Noor Khamis/Reuters)

A reveller, covered in mud, chats with friends during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, Britain, June 26, 2015. The outdoor festival runs from 24 to 29 June. (Photo by Dylan Martinez/Reuters)

Believers of the Legio Maria of African Church Mission covered in mud, attend a procession as part of their Christmas Mass near Ugunja, in Siaya County, Kenya on December 25, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)

“Asaro from the Eastern Highlands”. The mudmen could not cover their faces with mud because the people of Papua New Guinea thought that the mud from the Asaro river was poisonous. So instead of covering their faces with this alleged poison, they made masks from pebbles that they heated and water from the waterfall, with unusual designs such as long or very short ears either going down to the chin or sticking up at the top, long joined eyebrows attached to the top of the ears, horns and sideways mouths. (Photo and caption by Jimmy Nelson)

An Israeli woman scrambles through the mud and under barbed wire at the competition of the Legion Run in the Menara Cliffs area of Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, near the Lebanon border 14 October 2016. Hundreds of participants ran five kilometers cross country in steep terrain and then navigated various obstacle courses including steep inclines and mud holes. It is the first time this non-competitive but supportive sporting event is held in Israel. (Photo by Jim Hollander/EPA)