Uttarakhand

Trainees of the 224th mixed winter Adventure course practise rock climbing on the indoor rock climbing walls in Gyan Hall, NIM campus, at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in Uttarakhand.

snow · hills

Spot the Goral herd on the hilltop as seen from our Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

hills

This absolutely fabulous evening sky occurs in different permutations as seen from the wildfilmsindia forested hills in Uttarakhand, as seen in November 2020.

river · hills

A group of village trekkers walk towards Banderpunch peaks from their village of Agoda above Uttarakashi. They walk towards Bamsaru Tal in the early spring season, with reasonably thick snowpack..

The Tehri dam is located along the Bhagirathi Ganga / Ganges, in Uttarakhand, India. It was the subject of much environmental activism prior to completion, but is now providing some power and water to New Delhi and other cities in north Ind…

snow · hills

The enchanting peaks and mountains of the Himalayas are a muse and excitement for many even from the tales from this spectacular mountain range in North India.

farmland · hills

The sweetest baggu gosha nashpatis - Red ripe pears grow in a pear Orchard in the western Himalayan region of Ghorakhuri and Nainbagh in the western part of Uttarakhand state in India.

With Blue-throated Barbets calling in the background, this must be the lowest altitude Kiwi fruit growing region in India, and a warm weather one too! Kiwi fruit ripens on the shrub-vine in Uttarakhand fruit district of Nainbagh - Ghorakhur…

farmland · hills

Rice paddies are cultivated in step cultivation form in the Himalaya. The rice fields are stepped down the hillside, with each field a foot or so lower so that the steepness of the hill is tamed and water can flow evenly from one field to t…

river · hills

Dal - Chaval and papad is on the menu today, as your steel thali is handed to you at a high altitude campsite on the route to the Kalindi Khal pass in the Garhwal Himalaya.

hills · snow

Plodding through knee deep snow atop rocky scree slopes to top of Kalindi Khal in Uttarakhand Long march to top of Kalindi Khal that connects Gangotri Bhagirathi valley with Alaknanda-Badrinath Setting up tents on the way to Kalindi Pass in…

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.