Uttarakhand

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.

hills · snow

A snow-covered mountain trail in the lower-altitude Garhwal Himalaya of Uttarakhand, India, during active snowfall at our wildfilmsindia conservation estates.

flowers · hills

Lily bulbs being planted by hand at the Wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Botanical Arboretum in Uttarakhand. The bulbs are placed in neat rows in prepared soil, covered by hand and marked with small plant labels.

temple · ceremony

Kedarnath temple below Kedarnath peak: all crowded at kapath opening ceremony in Uttarakhand: May 2026

industry · hills

The time-lapse footage shows construction labourers mixing concrete by hand at a house site in the Himalayan hills. Workers shovel sand and gravel into piles, add water, and turn the wet mixture using basic tools.

industry · hills

Workers engaged in house construction at a building site in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. They work on bamboo scaffolding while plastering the walls of the structure. The time-lapse footage shows construction activity progressing at the site.

industry · hills

Workers are shown carrying out residential infrastructure construction at a Himalayan site surrounded by mountain slopes and dense cedar forest.

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.…

aerial · village

Ransi village in aerial view, en route Madhyamaheshwar Panch Kedar trek in Uttarakhand, as seen aerially, from the air, in this aerial view.

snow · hills

With heavy summer melt waters below, a Snow bridge exists in the Sunderdhunga valley covered in monsoon-time continuing winter snowpack, as our team heads towards Maiktoli peak in Uttarakhand.

temple · festival

Garhwali women with giant nose ring or nath initiate the temple opening for the summer season of 2025. Shri Madmaheshwar temple summer opening and marti migration: Panch Kedar Uttarakhand 28 May 2025.

farmland · village

Farm life in India? Aerial view of wheat fields, farm house and rural pond in Uttarakhand, India, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the air.

forest · hills

Enjoying Oak blossoms and eating Berberis ripe berries is this Maroon Oriole, a lovely songster from the middle Himalaya.

flowers · hills

Bearded Iris bruno, a German rhizomatic grows in spring time warmth of wildfilmsindia botanical garden Bearded Iris Bruno and Iris Alba flowers in the western Himalayas of Uttarakhand.