Uttarakhand

flowers · hills

The sun rises from behind Srikanta peak and adjacent range peaks in the Garhwal Himalaya. Late flowering Geum elatum is an unusual sight in October, but the Aconitum violaceum is usually seen at this time itself, in the autumn season, and t…

hills

It is one of those rarely seen wonders of nature which are rarely seen by just a few, among the freezing high altitude rocks of the Garhwal Himalaya.

village · hills

A large group of Himalayan Griffon Vultures were feeding at this carrion of a cow, outside a village in upper Uttarakhand.

hills · flowers

The Grey-winged Blackbird is otherwise one of the Himalaya's best songsters, but here it sits in silence, as it steals Rhododendron sap from within the petals of this tree's blooms, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Uttarakhand Himalay…

river

A Grey Wagtail incessantly wags its tail, entire body shaking with the movement, seen at our stream-side at Motidhar where the Rispana or Bindal river starts out on wildfilmsindia forest lands in Uttarakhand.

wildlife · birds

This Jay shyly approaches its nest to not let predators know if its nesting location. Sitting at our wildfilmsindia estate in Motidhar, the Jay collect rootlets from the ground for its nest, as it's still in construction mode.

hills · snow

First time every filmed! The rare Barasingha or Jerow / Sambhar of the Himalaya is a large deer species that lives a very secretive life at high altitudes and is rarely ever seen, except here for the first time that wildfilmsindia brings th…

industry

Garhwali people work in a wood workshop in Ganeshpur in Uttarakhand. The wood is being cut from a blade in a wood cutting machine. People work on a construction site in Uttarakhand.

hills · school

Archival footage from the 1990's of the Kumaon region of the erstwhile Uttar Pradesh state. Panchculi peaks of Kumaon in Uttarakhand, school girls walk home against backdrop of enormous mountain peaks and glaciers.

forest · river

Clear blue skies and a lovely forested valley bowl at Motidhar's Pari Tibba Estate in Uttarakhand. A wide view of the forest area in a panorama, looking up to Landour ridge at the north end...

hills

Walk the desolate high altitude snowy slopes of Rudragaira, following the lead climber up this simple trekking peak.

hills · snow

Agora village with the trees and hills around it blanketed in winter snow. This is the pit stop for the popular trek to Dodital or the Emerald Lake in Uttarakhand. Truly a winter wonderland in the Himalaya!

hills · snow

The monsoon system retreats from the Himalaya, dumping down one last time in the form of the season's first heavy snowfall at high altitudes.

hills · aerial

Aerial over-flight of Vasuki Tal lake and the upper reaches of the glacier below. Climbers pitch camp on the shores of Vasuka Tal lake with the rough moraine and rubble rocky walk up towards Kalindi Khal pass.

farmland · hills

This time-lapse captured two farmers in Uttarakhand, India, performing cleft grafting on a wild pear tree, a traditional horticultural technique used to propagate and improve fruit trees.

village · hills

Old woman in a Himalayan village in Uttarakhand presses out and then cooks, as she makes roti, chapati or Indian flat bread in her home's village open fire

hills · wildlife

Cheer Pheasant or bhoincheel calls out in its exquisite voice in the Kumaon Himalaya | Rare Himalayan Bird Sighting with a backdrop of the Chaukhamba range and nearby peaks. The sound of a conch shell or shankh can be heard nearby.

village · festival

A festive atmosphere prevails when one village stones another! Team orange at Bagwal festival of Devidhura Champawat, Uttarakhand With much revelry and camaraderie, the grotesque stone pelting festival gets off to a start as villagers conve…

hills · temple

The beauty of Mukhba Temple and the nearby village, located close to Gangotri in the Uttarakhand Himalayas.

village · hills

In a village of Harsil, Uttarakhand, men are shearing sheep while women are collecting the wool.

hills · livestock

Watch the wild mountain goat of the middle Himalaya peacefully graze in a lush meadow surrounded by the majestic Himalayan ranges of Uttarakhand.

hills · forest

Mighty ridge and col between Maiktoli and Panwali Dwar, leading to inner sanctuary of Nanda Devi View of Sunderdhunga Khal Jageshwar and Almora Panwali Dwar peak at edge of Nanda Devi Sanctuary, from Advanced Base Camp of Sunderdhunga Khal.…