“Himalayas”

Uttarakhand·village · hills

Garhwali village women perform a pooja in Agoda village near Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand. The men accompany to the beats of hand drummed drums.

forest · river

What a cheery and neatly-turned out birdie the Forktail is! A Spotted Forktail feeds a small frog to her chicks at the wildfilmsindia Motidhar sanctuary stream-side.

flowers · hills

Dendrobium densiflorum, a Himalayan epiphytic tree orchid mostly found in the Sikkim and West Bengal Himalaya flowers profusely in the spring season at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in New Delhi.

flowers · hills

The gardeners and assistant manager at the wildflmsindia botanical gardens and arboretum in the western Himalaya get to work with planting late winter season flower bulbs in our refurbished and repaired flower beds, after a disastrous fire…

flowers · hills

Kerria japonica Japanese Rose, a flowering shrub, and multiple small Irises with orange marked petals, at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the western Himalaya, in the speing of 2022.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Benog, Bhadraj and the cloudy villages and forests of Benog Wildlife Sanctuary, beyond Cloud End, near Mussoorie in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

hills

On a bright clear winter evening, the alpenglo of a winterline evening is reflected richly as the clouds move past and day turns to dusk...

forest · hills

Male and female Kalij Pheasant couple root around in the forest leafy under storey, at Motidhar sanctuary of wildfilmsindia, with the red lappet of the male matching the dropped Rhododendron arboreum petals, in terms of colour tonality.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

The wildfilmsindia team tries to battle a forest fire in the Himalaya during a crackly summer season around Mussoorie.

hills · snow

View from a tele-lens of Bandarpunch’s summit with its corniced summit and lowest ice fall, and finally across the Bhagirathi valley a panorama from Srikantha to Gangotri peaks and Jaonli.

Himachal Pradesh·village · hills

The village of Tashigang / Tashigong is a remote outpost in the Himalaya, in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh.

hills · village

One can see a beautiful old monastery on this hill top after Tangtse village in Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Tangtse lies on the valley floor through which the Harong stream flows.

Himachal Pradesh·railway · hills

The Himalayan Toy Train at Kathleeghat railway station. The station passes through a tunnel and halts at the Kathleeghat station. The train carries six passenger coaches and one luggage coach.

hills · farmland

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants.

hills

These cliffs are actually 70 to 80 degrees in verticality and the wild mountain goats of the Himalaya, known as Goral, manage to cling on just fine!

Uttarakhand·hills · wildlife

Suman Dubey speaks on recollections of mountaineering and walking the Himalaya with Hari Dang, dating back to his early days on Everest in 1962.

hills · highway

Driving from Yingkiong town to Pasighat via National Highway 513 in Arunachal Pradesh. See the twisted road through the eastern Himalaya in a cloudy weather. One can see the clouds moving around the hills and the rainforest of Arunachal.

Himachal Pradesh·hills

The hill stations of Mashobra and Shimla seem to have seen much denudation, deforestation and soil erosion.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

The 1193 built minaret - spire of Qutub Minar stands out from the semi urban sprawl of South Delhi.

industry · flowers

Lovely pink insides to these waxy white flowers that grow on the moister parts of our hillsides, mostly on the north faces.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

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

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Life among cliffs, Oak forests and Berberis aristata bushes, this is truly the good life for this Goral or wild mountain goat of the Himalaya, living under the protection of the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Mussoorie, Uttarak…

hills · wildlife

The Himalayan Griffon Vulture, Gyps himalayensis, is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is closely related to the European Griffon Vulture, G. fulvus.

Uttarakhand·hills

Nanda Devi in the highest peak in the Indian Garhwal Himalaya. The mountain has two tops, the main summit at 7816m (25,643ft) and Nanda Davy East at 7434m (24,389ft).