Uttarakhand

livestock

To the sound of bells and whistles, shepherds bring down their flock of sheep from the high mountains, for the winter months to be spent at lower altitudes.

snow · river

Mid-winter post now frozen fields of Majhi, Agoda huts covered in snow en route to Dodital Lake beyond Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand. Frozen fields of Majhi, Agoda huts covered in snow en route to Dodital Lake beyond Uttarkashi

forest · hills

Perfect camouflage for a Cicada at wildfilmsindia oak forest in Uttarakhand: September 2023. Th brown perfectly offsets the brown and green of the moss on the oak branch, virtually making the cicada impossible to spot from a distance.

village · highway

Preparing for a trek at the last road-head village. As we camp out in our tents on a village school ground, we prepare our boots, tents and other climbing gear, to head out for Chaukhamba Col! Assembling tents and mountaineering kit for Cha…

livestock · forest

A newly born goat kid struggles to stand up, searches for mother's milk from its furry sheep mother, in a Himalayan forest, in the midst of visiting shepherds who have camped near our wildfilmsindia forests and botanical gardens in Uttarakh…

forest

A wild Ivy type creeper climbs an old Horse Chestnut tree at wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet Himalayan forest in Uttarakhand.

flowers · hills

Irises bloom in Himalayan spring - Rhizomatic Iris varieties as well as wild Iris kemaonensis, all flower in March-April at the wildfilmsindia botanical collections and arboretum in Uttarakhand.

birds · hills

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

river

Juddo dam Hathiyari 420MW Lakhwar-Vyasi Power Project in Juddo Lakhwar-Vyasi Hydro Power Project comprises of two dams - the 192-meter high Lakhwar Multipurpose 300 MW dam at Lohari and a 80-meter high Vyasi dam of 120 MW at Juddo.

farmland · river

A lovely aerial view of the villages along the lower Yamuna / Jamna river valley in the western portion of Uttarakhand state.

farmland

A Garhwali woman dries the husk of Soya bean seed pods at a Garhwali village home's yard, to separate the seeds and pod chaff and dry the soya for winter consumption.

hills

Virtually visit the Garhwal Himalayan peaks of Srikantha, Rudragaira, PK. 6264, Gangotri I-II-III, and Jaonli in one minute, with this lovely winter sunset from the high peaks looking to the higher peaks! Sunset over Garhwal Himalaya with a…

hills

White clouds float past the mountains that are covered in later autumn permanent snow cover and glaciers in the Garhwal Himalaya.

Bhutia doggies feed together out of a metal bowl, eating two at a time together. Their shepherd master stands around after feeding them and whistles out to his sheep flock. The dogs against the mist make for a typical winter landscape.

birds · coastline

A White-browed Blue Flycatcher sitting on a mostly fruited Leh Berry patch near Lamkhaga Pass above Harsil in Uttarakhand, India. Leh Berry is a large deciduous shrub or tree sometimes reaching up to 18 m.

hills

See a Cicada calling in close-up mode! See the abdomen vibrate when it creates it's loud trilling noise which echoes through the Himalayan valleys in summer, monsoon and autumn. The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae).

hills · monsoon

Setting up tents on the way to Kalindi Pass in Garhwal. See a glacial melt-water lake on the lateral side of a glacial moraine.

birds · hills

A couple of White-cheeked Bulbul or Himalayan Bulbul or Pycnonotus leucogenys are filmed perched on a dry Deodar branch in the early spring at our Wilderness Estate in Uttarakhand. A closer look at the physical appearance of the bird.

hills · monsoon

A monsoon walk towards the Valley of Flowers, between Ghangariya to Govindghat in the Phoolon ki ghati, in the Garhwal Himalaya.

highway · farmland

Like a cut small Swiss town, Madhuban Hotel stands on the main Harsil-Gangotri road. Crates of apples are loaded up on to a local jeep-taxi for transport to the plains and other hill markets, in the hall-autumn apple harvest season in the H…

Jaonli covered in fresh winter snow whereas the White Peak and Hanuman dominate the western landscape as do Shrikantha and Rudragaira, as seen from the Darwa to Dayara buggyal trek in Garhwal.

river · hills

Lots of cloud movement and activity in the later winter early spring season, as the Banderpunch range with White Peak sits covered in a deep blanket of snow and ice, at the head-waters of the Yamuna river.

hills

High altitude winter camping in the Chhaiyan Gad valley. Camp life in the morning comprises of the camp cook and porters preparing a brunch of vegetables, rice and sometimes of Maggi noodles, breaking camp and preparing for the day's march…