“Himalayas”

Uttarakhand·hills · farmland

From our western Himalayan conservation field station, one looks right out to the Himalaya from each window of our rundown old godown cottage! The view makes one's day for it comprises of the peaks of Jaonli, Rudragaira and the Gangotri wal…

aerial · hills

Aerial view of Srikanta & Mahla then panning towards P. 6264M with Gangotri to the South. Uttarakhand is home to some of the highest peaks of the Himalaya. Fly over mountains covered in snow during winters in the Himalayas.

Uttarakhand·hills

Sunrise from our wildfilmsindia mountains at Jabbarkhet near Landour Mussoorie, looking to thr Ganga valley and the peak of Jaonli along the Himalayan range, with the Gangotri peak wall and Rudragaira, in the bright clear winter morning air…

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

Yamunotri Peak, also known as Kalind Parvat, in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand. Sunlight illuminates the rugged, snow-covered ridges as white clouds form and move rapidly around the mountain slopes.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Blackbird gorges on Berberis aristata or Kingod berries in the western Himalaya, spreading seeds for the shrub Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters, even as it silently pecks around for insects A Grey winged Blackbird sc…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A raptor rides on thermals in front of Woodstock School's Hanifl Center in Mussoorie. Isn't it fun to see how vultures fly and ride thermals of wind in the Himalaya, with the tips of their wings upturned like fingers, and no flapping at all…

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Agama basks in the lukewarm sun in the Himalaya to take in all the heat it can before the cold night that follows. Agama Lizard suns itself on a cold and overcast day in the Himalaya

Himachal Pradesh·hills · forest

Flying along with the bikers in Manali in Himachal Pradesh. The cycling expedition in Himalaya. One can see the bikers cycling on the twisted roods of the Himachal Himalaya.

Nepal·hills

Fly over Everest, Makalu, Jhomolhari / Chomolhari, Kanchenjunga and more - see the highest peaks in the world from this picture perfect aerial footage collection, shot from 35, 000 feet in the air, on a crisp and clear winter day, as our Wi…

Uttarakhand·hills

Morning view during sunrise captures the serene beauty of early light illuminating the landscape, promising a day filled with potential.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

A Rufous Sibia (Heterophasia capistrata) feeding on berries in Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India. Perched on a branch, the bird is seen actively picking and consuming berries.

hills

A high-altitude trekking campsite in the Harsil region of Uttarakhand, India. Two tents are pitched on a rocky glacial moraine landscape composed of boulders, scree, and mountain debris.

hills · industry

Bright red and pink sorrel (Rumex hastatus), also known as Arrowleaf Dock, grows across a hillside, adding vivid colour to the landscape.

hills · forest

In the darkness of twilight, a Kaleej Pheasant pair comes down cautiously to drink from our Bindal - Rispana stream in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A Blue-throated Barbet nests at wildfilmsindia bird sanctuary in western Himalaya, at Motidhar valley around Mussoorie. A Himalayan or Hill Barbet also calls clearly in the clip, so it must be sitting on an adjacent tree.

snow · hills

A sad sight as Indians walk past perhaps the most polluted river in the world! And this is the India of G20 and India Shining... Sad. Look at that boat full of detergent and those kids gambolling around in the filthy suds.

Landour, Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Sleepy Broadbill goes into roosting mode, lulled by Great Barbet calls, in Uttarakhand Himalaya, at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary around Landour. Suddenly, something seems to wake it up and it goes into alert mode in no time at all.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · sport

The Ceremonial flag off of the Raid de Himalaya 2015 was held at the Peterhoff Hotel, Shimla. All the participants were given a ceremonial flag-off on day zero of the race as the actual flag off takes place early morning race day.

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Competitive stages of the Raid de Himalaya turned even more interesting in the Suru Valley. With the tarmac vanishing, the track turned to an actual dirt track and the terrain became extremely challenging for the competitors.

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Gorals (Naemorhedus goral) are small species of ungulates, like a goat and antelope appearance, found in the northeastern state of India, as well as in Himalaya.

monsoon · hills

Its raining cats and dogs takes on a new meaning in the Himalayan monsoon. When the rains simply don't stop for weeks on end, maybe the cats and dogs need to be replaced by larger animal beings! A melange of rainy season storminess, monsoon…

hills

Frequent incidents of hail stones falling in the Himalaya point to a climate changed pattern, as snowfall is now scarce and far between. It no more snows in the middle Himalaya, it only hails and damages fruit trees, crops and plants.

birds · hills

Deep blue bird catches evening light sitting on a Himalayan Cedar or deodar branch, and looks deceptively like a different bird but is really a Verditer Flycatcher in the Himalay, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

temple · hills

An archival film on the four main pilgrimage sites along the Ganga - Badrinath, Gangotri, Yamunotri and Kedarnath comprise the Char Dham Yatra pilgrim circuit of the Garhwal Himalaya.