“Himalayas”

Uttarakhand·festival · hills

Fishing festival or riverine destruction? Maund mela on Aglar nadi behind Mussoorie leads to ecological damage. Locals band together in the river, to collect all the fish they have stunned.

birds · hills

In nature, a handicapped bird has little chances of survival. Yet, this Grey-winger Blackbird seems to be full of life, sings and vocalizes with full joy and is clearly confident of its place in its territory.

Ladakh·river · snow

A high mountain pass in Zanskar region of Jammu and Kashmir, Baralacha La means the pass where many roads meet. The pass connects Lahaul in Himachal Pradesh to Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir.

hills

Tibetans have a long history of using yaks. Fifty years ago an estimated one million wild yaks roamed the Tibetan plateau, but experts believe that yaks were first domesticated in Tibet at least 3000 years ago.

hills · snow

Ama Dablam is a mountain in the Himalaya range of eastern Nepal. The main peak is 6,812 metres (22,349 ft), the lower western peak is 6,170 metres (20,243 ft).

Meghalaya·hills · forest

Mountain cabin in Himalayan mountains of India: an aerial journey through forest and meadow. Since the Himalayas don't just cover the head of the continent India like a jewelled crown but extends from the north to northeast.

hills · desert

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

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Neither deathly steep cliffs nor wet slippery grasses deter the wild Mountain Goat of the Himalaya - the Goral.

hills · forest

Is this Goral mama prancing around with her kids as they walk past our camera trap on a sunny Himalayan ridge? Or has she been bothered by an insect? As the mists rise and fall, this wild mountain goat flicks off bugs and looks around for d…

festival · hills

Buddhist warriors? Why does that sound somehow incongruous? The Buddhists lift guns and perform a mock shooting drill! One man even pretends to die from the shooting! Hemis is an idyllic village in Ladakh, in Northern India.

hills

0:10 Bandarpunch 0:14 Black Peak 0:32 Lamkhaga Peak 0:45 Rudugaira / Rudragaira, perhaps? 0:48 Gangotri III 1:05 Srikantha A whole panorama of Garhwal Himalaya peaks as seen from the valley above Dharali, on a winter trek in October 2018, a…

hills

Take a 360 degree camera walk up the slopes of Mt. Rudragaira in the Gangotri Himalaya, and look to the distant Naga - Nelang range, as one ascends in bright sunlight on an early winter's day.

Uttarakhand·highway · hills

Drive from Landour to Uttarkashi and head beyond to the wintery snowed-over mountains beyond Sukhi Top pass and into the apple valley of Harsil, over rough tracks and slippery iced over road surfaces.

festival · ceremony

Devotees trek in the heart of Kumaon Himalayas during Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra in Uttarakhand. Nanda Devi is the second highest mountain in India. The three-week-long Nanda Devi Raj Jat is a pilgrimage and festival of Uttarakhand in India.

hills · village

The remote Himalayan settlement of Niti Village, located deep within the Niti Valley near the Indo-Tibetan border in northern India.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

See Ashy Drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus) couple on forest tree around Landour, notice their ruby red eyes The ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus) is a species of bird in the drongo family Dicruridae.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Giant Tree Dahlia or Dahlia imperialis from Mexico growing at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet botanical collection Tree Dahlia imperialis plants grow to 20-30 feet in the Himalaya, originally from Mexico Autumnal feel of pink Tree Dahlia imperial…

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet: A prettier Himalayan bird there isn't! Verditer Flycatcher quivers its tail as it delivers it's lovely trilling call! Deep blue bird catches monsoon light It's tail quivers as…

forest · hills

Cute little long-tailed Broadbill has a bath in our Bindal stream at wildfilmsindia Motidhar sanctuary, and then heads in to an Oak tree to shake off the water and dry off.

birds · hills

Nicely camouflaged, the Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker matches the mossy trunks it climbs up in search of insects at our wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary in the western Himalaya.

hills · wildlife

Rufous Sibia is the new name what we always called the Black-capped Sibia or Three Cheers! Winter wild pears are an attraction for this Black-capped Sibia or Rufous Sibia at wildfilmsindia Sunning itself on a winter's day, in the warm sun,…

flowers · hills

Dendrobium densiflorum, a Himalayan 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.

Ladakh·hills

A drive in the inner Himalaya in a bitter winter. Following the Zanskar and Spiti rivers upstream, en route Spiti, amid a Himalayan winter

Uttarakhand·village · hills

Indian Garhwali woman goes into a trance stage at edge of the Ganges river in the Himalaya Indian woman in a trance in Agoda village near Uttarkashi: Himalayan Garhwali woman enters another world, to the sounds of Garhwali religious music a…