This March 1956 photo shows a skier, with his trousers rolled up to his knees, heading down Mount Norquay at Banff National Park

Images from the 1873 book The Wonderland of the Antipodes and other sketches of travel in the North Island of New Zealand by J Ernest Tinne.

A skier soars through the air while racing down Mount Norquay in Alberta's Banff National Park in March 1956

A herd of caribou cuts across the Bald Hills, which are today a popular hiking spot, in Jasper National Park

A smiling Afghan boy is pictured decorating mounds of different cakes piled high on plates

This March 1956 photo shows a skier, with his trousers rolled up to his knees, heading down Mount Norquay at Banff National Park

the pristine slopes viewed from Jasper's Outpost Peak (1950)

A view looking north of the upper locks of the Gatun Locks. In 1893, De Lesseps was arrested and convicted of fraud and maladministration, he died two years later age 89

Signs warned motorists to exercise 'great caution' until The Devil's Elbow was bypassed in the 1960s

Porters helping holidaymakers with their luggage at Waterloo Station, London, in 1913, just a year before the start of World War One

Located south of the 2,198ft Cairnwell Pass, motorists were relieved when The Devil's Pass was bypassed

A chemistry lesson in full flow in a mud-walled classroom, with a small board covered in equations

A captivating residential hillside in Kabul is adorned by brightly coloured trees and foliage

Staff pushed burning embers off the cliff face in Yosemite National Park (pictured) before the practice was banned in 1968

In January 1968, the National Park Service ordered the spectacle (shown) be discontinued due to the overwhelming number of visitors it attracted.