Uttarakhand

forest · hills

Like long fierce orange creatures that cut across the darkness, forest fires in Uttarakhand still raged before they finally got extingushed by the ample monsoon rains in the summer of 2024.

village · river

Our aerial camera chases the arriving monsoon clouds, and passes a telecom tower in the gaon, set amid the rice fields. Aerial view of an Uttarakhand village - Saari is located near Chopta and Deoria Tal.

snow · hills

Walking crunch-crunch in freshly fallen hail at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Climate change seems to have swapped snowfall for hail, and hardly any snow seems to be received now.

flowers · livestock

Grazing sheep can ruin flower and grass meadows with their hooves. And when in such large numbers, they are over-run the meadows and destroy entire species preventing them from flowering or seeding, en masse.

wildlife · forest

Animals of the night: Jungle Cat, Kaleej Pheasant, Porcupine, Barking Deer and a Himalayan Whistling Thrush at dusk, as seen in our camera trap at the wildfilmsindia forests in Uttarakhand.

forest

A Pheasant male pecks at undergrowth for buds, shoots and bugs: Kaleej margha at wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand. The female is a darker brown and accompanies the male in the peony fields, with walnut trees above, for shade.

birds · hills

A gaggle of birds make their presence felt in the mountains during spring-time, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Motidhar in Uttarakhand.

hills · farmland

As the clouds roll in across a Himalayan sunrise sky, one sees daffodils at dawn! Sunrise over the Himalaya reveals a field of Dutchmaster daffodils in bloom in Uttarakhand.

river · railway

Yamuna River aerial view of Ranogi bridge, en route Chakrata from Mussoorie A viw from above the road, looking down to the Aglar - Yamuna /Jamna nadi junction in Uttarakhand.

hills · forest

Foraging without a care in the world, this Himalayan Mountain goat feels confident in the protection that wildfilmsindia provides it at our private wildlife sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

hills

A Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius Monachus) and a Himalayan Griffon Vulture (Gyps himalayensis) roost on rocks among dry grass. They take a detour of the surrounding dry crags.

ceremony · village

We take you on a small glimpse of the wedding reception of a traditional wedding of Garhwalis in a remote village in Uttarakhand. One of many ethnic weddings which are rarely seen but contribute to the richness of Indian culture.

flowers · monsoon

A range of colours of garden escape Gladiolus flowers, include this lovely yellow, grow wild during the monsoon season, at our wildfilmsindia Motidhar Estate in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

industry · hills

Help us identify this cultivated plant that we filmed around Dharali village in winter. Is it cultivated Kuth / Kut or Saussurea costus that is growing around the apple fields above Harsil in the Gangotri region? Dharali Winter trek Kut, a…

Uttarakhand·snow · river

Gomukh, the terminus or snout of the Gangotri Glacier, from where Bhagirathi River originates, is one of the primary sources of the Ganges River. The place is situated at a height of 13,200 ft.

Indian woman is carried up to Gangotri and Char Dham shrines on a hand-carried dandi palanquin.

highway · monsoon

Garhwali men dump stones in the muddy soil of the road to allow a car to traverse during the Uttarakhand floods, by getting some traction on the slippery surface.

hills · livestock

Cattle herders from Sukhi Village, Uttarakhand graze their cattle in the Upper Son Gad Valley during the autumn season. This will be the last graze for these cattle up in the cold valley near the Garhwal Himalaya.

hills

Rescue of a climber with HAPO during Kalindi Khal trek in the Himalaya: High altitude sickness or High Altitude Pulmonary Oedema / Edema, or water retention in the lungs due to high altitude lack of acclimatization.

flowers · hills

Horned Lousewort, the curious species, inhabits tough and sometimes inaccessible areas of the Himalayan cold deserts.

forest

This langur is enjoying its spring-time feast of fresh crunchy oak leaves in the lower Himalaya, at the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary, around in Uttarakhand.

birds · hills

Birds of Middle Hills in autumn: Minivet, Common or Mountain Hawk Cuckoo or Kaphal Pako bird hiding secretively in an Oak tree, Jay, Black-capped or Rufous Sibia, Black-crowned Jay, Streaked Laughing Thrush, Grey Tit, White-eye, Bulbul, Fly…

forest · birds

A family group of Slaty-headed Parakeet or Psittacula himalayana are filmed hogging on Cedrus deodara seeds, after digging them out of the deodar cones, fresh from the tree at our Wilderness Orchard and forests in Uttarakhand.