“Himalayas”

industry

At a construction site in India, this hard working Nepalese woman carries her infant on her back, as she does hard manual labour.

hills · birds

With the little tuft of feathers above the orange beak, the Jungle Myna is unmistakable in its new habitat in the middle Himalaya. They have moved up from the plains and are now stealing nest-holes from the milder hill birds.

river · railway

Yamuna - Aglar junction : The Jamna river provides Delhi with most if its water, yet the river is abused and dammed shortly after it emanates from the Himalaya. Here the river is still in its prime and flower a nice emerald green.

Uttarakhand·highway · forest

Rajaji National Park aerial view. The Dehradun route passes through these lovely forests, disturbing habitat and wildlife corridors. see the Shivalik mountain range - older than the Himalaya.

architecture · hills

What tragedy struck the town of Batseri, and the tourists visiting it, on 25th July 2021, a Sunday afternoon.

snow · wildlife

This Snow Leopard or Ounce sits at the edge of a slippery snowed-over cliff in the high Himalaya, in the peak of winter.

Uttarakhand·hills · farmland

With a view out to the lower hills and plains below, a lone Himalayan Cedar or deodar trees grows at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Landour, Uttarakhand.

river · lake

People bathe in the holy lake or Mansarovar also called Manas Sarovar and their camps are clearly seen on the foothills of the Himalayas. The holy mount Kailash with clouds over it can be seen.

Uttarakhand

The wonderful edifice of Dahlia Bank or Halcyon Manor comes down, stone by stone, as the JCB's and bull dozers sent by the Cantonment Board, hammer away at the strong structure, bringing down the most beautiful property to have ever been bu…

Uttarakhand·forest

Changing hues of the forest with the change in seasons. The Himalayas have a misty, smokey blue shade during the monsoon season and golden, orange shade during the fall.

Uttarakhand

Take a virtual tour of mythical sunsets in the Himalayas with clouds floating atop peaks. Mesmerising and intense colours of the sun as it drops into the western horizon. The sun looks quite close and almost touchable.

Ladakh·hills

A sunrise captured in the Himalaya is worth a treasure for a lifetime. Filmed from the Rangdum valley in Zanskar, this view shows some (perhaps unnamed) peaks in the ranges around Nun and Kun.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

The Himalayan Peony or peonia emodi grows at moderately high altitudes in the Himalaya. Here, it has been cultivated at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Uttarakhand, along with an array of garden Iris varieties and colours.

Uttarakhand·industry · highway

Ru Tor Tehri saria steel roads being unloaded from a Bolero pick-up truck, for construction in the Himalaya. Physical work in progress at a construction site in North India during the Corona Pandemic.

bazaar · music

Himachali man playing a Shehnai type reed based instrument- help us identify... Men from Himachal Pradesh playing their traditional music instrument 'thonkru' during the Mahashivratri occasion at mandi - Himachal Pradesh.

Uttarakhand·temple · hills

Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter - Mi8 takes off from Kedarnath valley heli-pad and base camp after dropping miscellaneous items.

Nepal·hills

Sherpas check Koflach boots and crampons at Mount Everest Base Camp, Nepal. Nowhere in the world is more spectacular than in the Everest region. It is where four of the world's six tallest peaks Mt. Everest, Mt. Lhotse, Mt.

Uttarakhand·river · village

Young Indian boys happily play with an old circular metallic wheel on a bridge over Ramganga River near Corbett in Uttarakhand.

Jammu and Kashmir·hills · snow

Himalayan Marmot forages among wild geranium flowers en route Amarnath in India. The Himalayan marmot is a marmot found in the Himalayan regions ranging in elevation from 300 to 4,500 metres (980 to 14,760 ft).

wildlife · river

Village life in Assam - we see children and women enjoying the cool breeze blowing and a woman is carrying a cute goat in her hands. Assam is a state of India in the north-eastern region.

village

Paryang village in Zhongba County, Shigatse in Tibet en route mount Kailash. A red color board with Shi Shapang Ma Hotel written over it in Bhutanese, Chinese and English. One can see the prayer flags and the Himalayas in the backdrop.

flowers

Karonda fruit, also called Black Currant or Christ’s thorn and scientifically termed Carissa carandas, is a traditional summer produce in India, that is widely utilised in making pickles, jams and preserves.

Himachal Pradesh·river · hills

An idyllic mountain landscape with a small Himachali mountain village with a stream and waterfall nearby, a walnut tree orchard and cultivation around it. This is in the Rohru belt of Himachal Pradesh in the western Himalaya.

snow · hills

A group of naturalists search Snow Leopard in the snowy mountains as a man walks over a frozen river in Ladakh, India. The snow leopard is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia.