“Himalayas”

hills

White clouds float past the mountains that are covered in later autumn permanent snow cover and glaciers in the Garhwal Himalaya.

Himachal Pradesh·river · hills

An old series of shortens along the Manali highway, in the Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh.

snow

The Ounce of the Himalaya - nimble on steep rock and snow. This two year old female climbs and descends steep rock faces and slips down a freshly snowed-in ravine, only to quickly gather itself and pull out of the slide.

Himachal Pradesh·wildlife · snow

It is rare to see the elusive and endangered Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) even in a zoo let alone its natural habitat.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

At the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie, a pair of Goral or wild mountain goats stare out across a rocky cliff-top, at possible leopard movement in the Oak forest above.

Uttarakhand·hills

A range of cloud and mountain light as seen from the wildfilmsindia estate ridge at Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand. Another day in our mountain paradise...

Gujarat

Darter (Anhinga melanogaster) Is a widespread resident, unrecorded in parts of NW and NE subcontinent and Himalayas.

Himachal Pradesh

It hasn't snowed so much or so many times in many years, in the western Himalayas, as in the winter of 2020. See these cars bogged down in deep snowpack, after the sun comes out, in Shimla, along the Mall.

Himachal Pradesh·hills

H.H. Dalai reaches Spiti in Mesco Airlines VT-MAE for Kalachakra at Tabo Monastery in 1996. VT-MAE call sign was owned by Mesco and is now operated by Skyone Airways, and runs on Klimov TV3-117MT engines.

hills

Plastic pollution and human waste have started telling on the high altitude alpine environment of the Himalaya as well. In this remote wild location at 16, 000 feet, a Himalayan Fox searches for food within a discarded plastic bag.

Pangong, Ladakh·river · lake

Tangtse village on Leh- Pangong Tso road. Tangtse lies on the valley floor through which the Harong stream flows. Surrounded by mountains, the village lies on flat arid ground with greenery to be seen only along the Harong stream.

river · sport

An American adventure sport called river running/ rafting has managed to consolidate its hold on the youth of an ancient land called India.

Ladakh·hills · river

An aerial view of Stakna and Matho monasteries along the Indus river valley in Leh, Ladakh. Matho Monastery or Matho Gompa is one of the attractive monasteries in the lap of Himalaya.

Ladakh·lake · river

Tangtse village on Leh- Pangong Tso road. Tangtse lies on the valley floor through which the Harong stream flows. Surrounded by mountains, the village lies on flat arid ground with greenery to be seen only along the Harong stream.

Himachal Pradesh·river

Slow motion close up shot of river Beas water flowing down stream. Beas river captured from slow motion camera in Manali. The Beas River is a river in north India.

The energy of waterfalls! Ramiyi waterfalls at Rohru in Himachal Pradesh flows energetically and full, despite summer-time heat and water shortage all around, even in the mountains of the Himalaya...

Nepal·snow

See the scale of the Himalaya - these climbers appears as ants in front of the giant Khumbu seracs! Mountaineers move efficiently with their gears and cramponed shoes across mixed and ice terrain mountains during their Everest expedition.

river · hills

A beautiful aerial journey of Uhl river in Barot Valley of Himachal Pradesh. Uhl is a Himalayan stream which is part of the watershed of Beas river.

river · lake

Tangtse village on Leh- Pangong Tso road. Tangtse lies on the valley floor through which the Harong stream flows. Surrounded by mountains, the village lies on flat arid ground with greenery to be seen only along the Harong stream.

Uttarakhand·river · hills

On 7th February 2021, a sudden glacial surge of water gushed down the riverine course of the Rishi Ganga and thus the Dhauli Ganga, and into the Alaknanda river valley, all the way down from Chamoli in Garhwal to the lower reaches of the Ga…

architecture · hills

Located in the Himalaya mountains in the north-eastern part of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, the Chicham Bridge is said to be the World's highest bridge from sea level at 4.037m (13,244ft).

flowers · river

A very graceful and elegant plant flowering near a stream in Nandadevi sanctuary. Rock Anemone is a perennial herb characterised by large showy, white flowers, which are sometimes pinkish on the underside, 4-7 cm across.

flowers · hills

Paeonia emodi grows in a semi-wild state at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens at Motidhar in Uttarakhang, having been naturalized from the higher Himalaya in this forest location at a lower altitude where it is flourishing, flowering an…

Himachal Pradesh·hills · desert

A group of Himalayan ibex seen in the cold desert of the Trans-Himalaya, in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh.