Andrew Newey, an award-winning UK-based travel photographer, has captured gripping photographs of central Nepalese Gurung tribe members engaged in a dangerous and ancient tradition – honey hunting.

The Taiwan Blue Magpie (Urocissa caerulea), also called the Taiwan Magpie or Formosan Blue Magpie, is a member of the Crow family. It is an endemic species living in the mountains of Taiwan at elevations of 300 to 1200m.

The quokka the only member of the genus Setonix, is a small macropod about the size of a domestic cat. Like other marsupials in the macropod family (such as the kangaroos and wallabies), the quokka is herbivorous and mainly nocturnal.

Members of the Cyclophonica band play instruments as they make a stop during a ride in Rio de Janeiro May 17, 2015. The Cyclophonica band was formed by a group of musicians riding bicycles around the city, mixing sport and culture and entertaining people on the streets, according to its founder Leonardo Fuks. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

Participants of the the goth festival “Wave Gothic Festival” walk in fancy costumes along the festival area in Leipzig, central Germany, Saturday, May 23, 2015. About 20,000 members of the scene are expected to attend one of the world's largest gothic and “dark” culture festivals until May 25, 2015. (Photo by Jens Meyer/AP Photo)

Members of national folklore and ethnographic groups and employees of a museum-preserve participate in the reconstruction of daily life and traditional holidays celebrated by indigenous population of the Republic of Khakassia during a demonstration for visitors outside a traditional wooden yurt near Kazanovka village, southwest of the city of Abakan, Russia, July 24, 2015. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Members of the general public enjoy the “BEACH” at the National Building Museum August 25, 2015 in Washington, DC. The “BEACH” is an interactive architectural installation, with an “ocean” of nearly one million recyclable translucent plastic balls, that brings the experience of going to the beach indoor. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)