Himalayas — Clipahoy

European Honey Buzzard on passage migration, as seen at Jabbarkhet mountains

Uttarakhand·hills

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 Jabbarkhet mountains in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Tibetan Snow Partridge in slow motion eating action in Ladakh: One teetar eats and swallows a root

hills · snow

Neat and cute as buttons, a covey of Tibetan Snow Partridge huddle together on an icy snow slope in the Ladakh winter, rugged and tolerant to extreme temperatures. They band together to keep warm and share in each others' warmth.

Setting up tents at Base camp for the Kalindi Khal trek, alongside the Raj Parav glacier in Garhwal, in Uttarakhand

hills · snow

Porters and team members assemble tents on a rocky glacial shelf above the main Raj Parav glacier in Garhwal, en route the Kalindi Khal pass trek in the western Himalaya.

Commelina tuberosa not paludosa monsoon light time lapse at Jabbarkhet botanic

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Commelina tuberosa not paludosa monsoon light time lapse at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collection in the western Himalaya. The Commelina flower has a gluey secration inside its pod.

Bhojpatra bark provided the writing base for the Vedas and Upanishads

hills · forest

High up in the Himalaya grows the remarkable Bhojpatra, or Himalayan birch. Its distinctive peeling, pale bark was traditionally used as a writing material for manuscripts and religious texts.

River crossing en route Kalindi Khal trek in Uttarakhand, in high altitude monsoon wet countryside

hills · monsoon

Walking through deep snowpack Porters and team members assemble tents on a rocky glacial shelf above the main Raj Parav glacier in Garhwal, en route the Kalindi Khal pass trek in the western Himalaya.

In pre-dawn darkness, a Kalij Pheasant is the first one to party on forest floor, turning up leaves

forest · hills

In pre-dawn darkness, a Kalij Pheasant is the first one to the party on the forest floor, turning up leaves and digging with its claws in the soft moist soil below the oak trees.

Monsoon Fog Shrouds Lower Himalayan Hills

hills · monsoon

Misty monsoon clouds roll over green hills in the Lower Himalayas during heavy fog season. Thick white fog blankets valleys and peaks, creating dramatic atmospheric layers.

Watch a spider jump to carry its silk strand from one branch of a shrub to another, in Uttarakhand

Watch a spider jump to carry its silk strand from one branch of a shrub to another, in high altitude forests of Uttarakhand in the western Himalaya. Help us identify this species of spider!

Houses & village life of people of cold desert of Spiti Valley

Himachal Pradesh·hills · village

Explore the traditional houses and simple village lifestyle of the people of Spiti Valley. This video captures the unique architecture and daily life set against the stunning backdrop of the Himalayas.

Darma Valley alpine meadow flowers: Stellera chamaejasme, Anemone obtusiloba, Androsace sarmentosa, in Uttarakhand

hills · flowers

Darma Valley alpine meadow flowers in a windy exposed sloping meadow of the Kumaon Himalaya: Stellera chamaejasme, Anemone obtusiloba and Androsace sarmentosa

Namak Mirch Haldi a version of Rock Paper Scissors? Mountain bachhas play in their Himalayan village, in Pithoragarh

Uttarakhand·hills · village

Is that a Himalayan form of Rock Paper Scissors? Mountain bachhas play around their village in the Pithoragarh district of Kumaon Himalaya

Black-crowned Jay & Rufous Sibia: 2 visitors to our wild Himalayan pear tree for fruit & insect fare, in Jabbarkhet

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Black-crowned Jay and Rufous Sibia: Two visitors to our wild Himalayan pear tree, for fruit and insect fare The Rufous Sibia, Black-capped Sibia or the Three Cheers bird has smart blue wings with a rufous-brown body and a black cap atop its…

Face speckled with pollen, Rufous Sibia has smart blue wings, rufous body and black cap atop head, in Jabbarkhet

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

The Rufous Sibia, Black-capped Sibia or the Three Cheers bird has smart blue wings with a rufous-brown body and a black cap atop its head Hanging upside down as it plunders a wild Himalayan pear tree and bites off big chunks of ripe small w…

Cave of blue ice and icicles: Timmersain Mahadev in Niti Valley of Uttarakhand

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.

Monsoon damage being repaired: Pushta or stone retaining wall being repaired between flower beds, in Mussoorie

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.

Pancheshwar Temple Champawat Uttarakhand

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.

Snow Leopard baby takes a dump in the snow, family crosses steep scree slope at high altitude, in Spiti

Himachal Pradesh·wildlife · snow

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

Deodar forest monoculture in Lohaghat, Champawat district, Uttarakhand

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.

Himalayan Rhododendrons burst into bloom across the forest

flowers · hills

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

Cloudy meadows and buggyals of Garhwal, Bedni biggyal en route the Mystery Skeleton Lake at Roopkund

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.

Himalayan summit climb: Getting up a mountain slope near Auden's Col, Rudragaira ridge walk 360 view, in Uttarakhand

hills

Walking up the scree and rocky slopes of Mt. Rudragaira to get to a 19, 200 foot high trekking peak of a Himalayan summit in the Garhwal Himalaya.

Jungle Mynas try to steal the excavated nest hole of a pair of Great Hill Barbets at

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.

Smart bird of Himalayan peace? Oriental Turtle Dove coos at Jabbarkhet wildfilmsinda forest

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.