“Himalayas”

snow · hills

Walking crunch-crunch in freshly fallen hail at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Climate change seems to have swapped snowfall for hail, and hardly any snow seems to be received now.

wildlife · hills

Moving its head left to right, this young Panther or Leopard stops right in front of our camera trap, and films itself in failing evening light in the Himalaya, at the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

hills · politics

Presenting glimpses of some high speed imagery from the world's highest rally raid - Raid de Himalaya.

hills

As you fly parallel to the Himalaya, from east to west, you can see a vast swathe of the Himalayan range, from the peaks of Nepal to the Garhwal and Kumaon Himalaya, after having initially passed Sikkim and Bhutan.

flowers · hills

Climate change is sending freak hailstorms to the Himalaya with alarming regularity, in place of snow and rain.

hills · birds

Nesting duties of the White-throated Laughing thrush of the Himalaya: Feeding time for yellow gaped babies A White-throated Laughing Thrush spreads her wings wide to protect delicate chicks from summer sun, as she sits in her nest atop her…

hills · livestock

A flock of foraging sheep can truly lay bare an entire hillside, as they meticulously graze the slope to barren-ness... Sheep over lead to over-grazing in the Himalaya, killing off the undergrowth and grasses on entire mountains.

hills · river

Leg 5 of Raid de Himalaya had two competitive and two transport sections. The last of the competitive sections began near Panikher village towards upper Suru valley and ended at Rangdum.

Himachal Pradesh·hills

Cars and bikes pass from Ahata on SH - 43 enroute to Dalhousie in Himachal Pradesh on Day 3 of Raid de Himalaya 2015. Leg 3 of Raid de Himalaya began at Manali and ended at Dalhousie.

hills

See how the glaciers of the Himalaya have gouged out the valleys and deepened them, through abrasion and abrasive action over eons.

hills · wildlife

After their brief pit stop in Delhi, to recharge their batteries, eat mulberries and insects, drink and rest in the shade, the Rosy Starlings have headed north and across the Himalaya, to their summer and breeding grounds...

flowers · hills

This time lapse captures workers carefully preparing soil and planting flowers inside a greenhouse nestled in the Himalayas.

hills · flowers

A dragonfly filmed at 400 fps (frames per second) at the Wilderness Orchard botanical garden in the Himalaya.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · music

This is the 1st edition of the Himalayan Music Festival 2014 in Dharamshala organized by Ants Entertainment.

Uttarakhand·hills · school

A Rufous or Black-capped Sibia in Landour, Mussoorie, known to Dehra dun school students as the 'Three Cheers'! The Rufous Sibia (Heterophasia capistrata) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. It feeds on berries and insects.

Uttarakhand·farmland · flowers

In the serene wilderness of Jabbarkhet, the garden comes alive with activity as men carefully pluck fresh, green broccoli from the plants and place them onto carts.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Butterflies pay a visit to a Red hot poker flowering stem at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet in the Himalaya A Stag beetle explores a Red Hot Poker or Kniphofia blooming head at the wildfilmsindia Himalayan botanical garden, with a Green-backed T…

hills

Tibetan Partridge in mid-winter Ladakh freeze, hardy pheasant family or pheasanidae like Ptarmigan type bird of the high Himalaya and trans-Himalayan regions.

hills · flowers

Primula (not sikkimensis) and Inula daisy fields of flowers in north Sikkim 17th June 2022, between Thangu and Gurudongmar, as seen near the army encampment, along the Lachen Chhu or the nascent Teesta river.

river · hills

A rarely visited and seen lake is Bamsaru Tal as seen her at the base of Bandarpunch peak in the Garhwal Himalaya, at spring-time snow-melt time.

birds · hills

A couple of Slaty-headed Parakeets (Psittacula himalayana) are filmed on a coniferous Cedrus deodara Himalayan Cedar tree in Uttarakhand. A silhouette of the bird trying to eat fresh cedar cone nuts straight from the tree.

Uttarakhand·hills · music

Accidentals performing in Big Gig music festival in Landour. This group is from Woodstock School.

Uttarakhand·hills

Rupin Dang speaking about the Rhododendron arboreum trees of his old British estate in the Himalaya, at 7600 feet altitude, in Landour, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

hills

A Himalayan serow grazing in Himalayan forest, India. The Himalayan serow (Capricornis thar) is a goat-antelope native to the Himalayas, and eastern and southeastern Bangladesh.