“Himalayas”

hills · village

On a hillside covered with juniper shrubs and Silver Birch of Betula utilis trees lies this mysterious cave that is worhipped for its icycles and blue ice, within the Niti river valley along the Dhauli Ganga in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · flowers

Monsoon damage being repaired: Pushta or stone retaining wall being repaired between flower beds at the wildfilmsindia botanical arboretum and pheasant sanctuary in Motidhar in the western Himalaya.

temple · highway

Earlier, the Pandava brothers were here and performed penance; since then, this place has been named Pancheshwar Dham. From here, they went towards the Himalayas. This temple has completed 100 years.

Himachal Pradesh·wildlife · snow

Mother Snow Leopard paves her ways across deep snowpack terrain as cub playfully follows in the Himalaya

forest · hills

Dense monoculture deodar forest in Lohaghat, Champawat district, Uttarakhand. Cedrus deodara is the cedar of the western Himalaya. See interfaces of cultivation and forest in the middle hills of Uttarakhand state.

flowers · hills

Clusters of Himalayan rhododendron (Rhododendron arboreum) flowers bloom in vivid shades of pink, adding spectacular colour to a lush mountain forest.

Uttarakhand·hills · river

Trekking over Bedni and Ali Buggyal to get to Roopkund Lake of Bones in the Garhwal Himalaya, with views of Nanda Ghunti and Trishul peaks.

Arunachal Pradesh·highway · hills

Welcome to the eastern Himalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and the eastern Himalaya, through this adventure sports promo short film. Walk through a tea garden. Enjoy wild orchids on the trees. See Kanchenjunga and the peaks of its range.

birds · forest

A pair of Jungle Myna try to steal the excavated nest hole of a pair of Great Hill Barbets at wildfilmsindia Motidhar Estate in the Western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

Smart bird of Himalayan peace? Oriental Turtle Dove or ghughi iwth black spots of banding on its nape coos calmly at Jabbarkhet wildfilmsinda forest in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

European Honey Buzzard takes flight from Himalayan Deodar tree European Honey Buzzard, a prominent Himalayan raptor (not the Oriental?) sitting on a Himalayan Cedar or deodar tree, during passage migration, as seen at wildfilmsindia Jabbark…

Uttarakhand·forest · wildlife

A female Dark Gray Bush Chat sits on vigil to ensure its nest is safe, finds a safe moment to approach ground nest.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

This Juvenile Blue-capped Rock Thrush was sighted while preening its wings and feathers at our wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet forest: Rare bird sighting for the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

hills · temple

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

village · aerial

Aerial view of Mukhba temple near Gangotri temple in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, with Dharali village just before it was attacked by rock and water in the form of the Tharali cloudburst disaster of the monsoon of 2025, and virtually destroyed…

Uttarakhand

Rhesus Macaque monkeys or bandars have family time, with de-ticking and lice removal in the summer sun. They preen and clean each other on a bright sunny day around Landour town in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Stunning Himalayan sunrise, monsoon clouds go past deodar trees, at wildfilmsindia estate in Landour Sunrises and Sunsets over the western Himalaya, as seen from wildfilmsindia at Jabbarkhet

Uttarakhand·snow

Snow storm hits Mussoorie in the western Himalaya, turning the landscape white, with a foot deep snowpack mid-winter

forest · hills

Bad Moon Rising? Nope, just our beautiful Himalayan moon-rise behind Oak and deodar forest trees, at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the western Himalaya,

hills

Grand Duchess Butterfly is a pretty olive-green white-spotted Himalayan titli, as seen sitting here on Arum Lily leaves at the wildfilmsindia Motidhar Estate in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Planted during the time of the British in the nineteenth century, these Cosmos have been reproducing successfully and spreading across our hill, at our botanical arboretum in the Western Himalaya.

hills

A breathtaking time-lapse captures bright white cumulus clouds gliding across a deep blue sky above the forested hills of the Himalayas.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

A dreadful forest fire as seen from air as it rips through a Chir Pine forest near Mussoorie, and not lovely monsoon clouds as one might have mistaken them to be.

village · hills

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