“Himalayas”

hills · birds

This super cheery singer songster is the Grey-winged Blackbird, while it's more dapper and colourful forest-mate is the Verditer Flycatcher which makes it a point to sign from high dead branches, to make its presence felt.

festival · river

Men behave rowdy and rambunctious, excitable and in a festive mood at the Maund Mela fish killing festival in the western Himalaya.

West Bengal·hills · birds

A Darjeeling Himalayan Pied Woodpecker chips away at old wood on a dead branch, in search of insects, at the Wilderness Orchard and wildlife sanctuary in the Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills · aerial

See the LBSNAA campus and the western part of Mussoorie town, from the air. One can see the Garhwal range of the Himalaya on a brilliantly clear winter morning, in the backdrop.

hills · sport

With the monsoon rains comes profusion of every kind. Even earthworms breed and their numbers swell as food and water supply steps up.

river · hills

Indus river from which India gets its name: aerial view of Hemis Monastery. Indus River, Tibetan and Sanskrit Sindhu, Sindhi Sindhu, or Mehran, a great trans-Himalayan river of South Asia.

flowers · river

This beautiful fragrant Primula grows close to water in spring-time alpine meadows that have abundant snow-melt.

flowers · hills

A melange of monsoon time wild flowers from the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Himalaya (in order) - Begonia dioica and picta, Roscoea purpurea is a wild ground orchid of sorts, wild ginger, green seed pods of Arisaema wall…

Himachal Pradesh·hills · wildlife

While Spiti is beautiful in any month of the year, winter is completely different and magical, but quite adventurous and cold at the same time. Reaching Spiti itself in winter is a task.

hills

The most widely distributed carnivore in the world the Red fox is extremely variable in body colour and size.

Uttarakhand·birds · flowers

It's time for a Rhododendron floral nectar feast for this lovely, reclusive and rarely seen bird - the Rusty cheeked Scimitar Babbler is a lovely Himalayan bird with a scimitar shaped beak.

hills

Kuari Pass is probably the best window to view the high Himalayan peaks. The views are simply breathtaking with the Himalayan giants lined up in one magnificent arc easily making it one of the most wonderful views in the Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills · village

With a backdrop of Tehri dam and a school with kids playing outside, one can see Banderpunch peak and Swargarohini in the backdrop of the drive down towards the Tehri Dam and Uttarkashi.

hills · snow

An ascent of Black Peak or Banderpunch II (20, 956 feet altitude) in the Garhwal Himalaya, by an expedition from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, in 1991.

monsoon · hills

An after storm cloudy monsoon view from the middle Himalaya, looking down to the plains of north India.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A lovely tapestry of colours and clouds painted upon by the glow of dusk from 7200 feet in the Himalaya, from our mountain cottage at wildfilmsindia's forests in Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand.

hills

The warmth of a Himalayan camp fire, en route Rudragaira peak in the Garhwal Himalaya. it is evening, and there is still bright light on the peaks behind and Auden's Col, but it is winter and the chill is extreme.

hills · bazaar

Hill Gods arrives at Mandi Paddal ground for the Mahashivratri. Mandi, formerly known as Mandav Nagar, also known as Sahor (Tibetan: Zahor), is a major city and a municipal council in Mandi District in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

river · hills

Paro hosts Bhutan's lone airport and the valley comprises a range of bucolic imagery including traditional Bhutanese homes, dzongs or fortified monasteries and green rice fields as far as the eyes can see.

hills · wildlife

Included in the Schedule 1 of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, and thus due to be accorded the highest level of protection is this Cheer Pheasant as it looks fabulous with warm evening sun on the Chaukhamba Himalayan range peak, and amon…

flowers · hills

A time-lapse captures a vibrant patch of iris flowers blooming across a Himalayan landscape. The scene unfolds at twilight, with the sky transitioning through deep orange and purple hues as the sun dips behind distant mountains.

village · festival

Villagers in pink dress run forward to throw stones at Bagwal festival, Devidhura Champawat Uttarakhand. When one village stones another! Team orange.

Uttarakhand·hills · politics

This cinematic 4K footage captures the convoy of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami traveling through the beautiful Harshil Valley in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Dahlia imperialis at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet : Giant 20 foot tall Dahlias from Mexico grow in our gardens Giant Tree Dahlia or Dahlia imperialis from Mexico growing at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collection Tree Dahlia imperialis…