Mules or khachers used as pack animals in Uttarakhand Himalaya

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A khacher can carry a whole lot more than a human porter and so they are most useful on mountaineering expeditions, to carry loads up to the lower camps, to stock Base camps and ferry rations. They are also used by villagers to move manure, agricultural produce and the like... This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutio