“Himalayas”

hills · flowers

At the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the western Himalaya, daffodil heads starts flowering as the winter frost has ebbed and snows have melted. Warmer days lie ahead!

Himachal Pradesh·hills

Leg 2 of Raid de Himalaya 2015 started from Manali and passed from Mandi, Jogindernagar, Palampur and Kangra before ending at Dalhousie.

hills · aerial

The footage presents an aerial view of the official base camp of MTB Himalaya in Himachal Pradesh. Situated beside a winding Himalayan mountain road, the campsite occupies a prominent hairpin bend surrounded by dense forested slopes.

Uttarakhand·hills · temple

The legendary Roopkund Trek traverses the vast alpine meadows of Bedni Bugyal, one of the most spectacular high-altitude grasslands in the Indian Himalayas.

flowers · hills

In the May summer heat of the Delhi lockdown in 2020, this delicate and beautiful eastern Himalayan Dendrobium Orchid came into bloom at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens.

hills

It is one of those rarely seen wonders of nature which are rarely seen by just a few, among the freezing high altitude rocks of the Garhwal Himalaya.

hills

The Himalayan Ibex (Capra sibirica hemalayanus) is regarded as a subspecies of the Siberian Ibex (Capra sibirica). They are found in the western Himalaya in Pakistan and India, usually at elevations of 3800m and higher.

hills · forest

The Himalayan Tree Pie is a forest bird that lives in the middle Himalaya, is shy and retiring. It is related to the plains Tree Pie but is more often seen in thick forest and doesn't venture into hill stations gardens a lot.

hills · flowers

These bearded Irises were planted by the British in the garden of Rockville Cottage in the Uttarakhand Himalaya of India.

hills · flowers

Flowering Rhododendron arboreum, commonly known as the tree rhododendron, in a Himalayan forest. The plant displays dense clusters of bright red, bell-shaped flowers across its canopy.

monsoon · hills

This slow-motion footage captures monsoon rain falling across the Himalayan highlands. Raindrops descend steadily from a cloudy sky, splashing onto the ground and dripping from the branches of a Deodar Cedar (Cedrus deodara).

Uttarakhand·hills · river

Witness the extraordinary scale of Tehri Dam, one of the world's tallest rock-and-earth-fill dams and the highest dam in India.

hills

A Sorrel Sapphire or Heliophorus sena butterfly (part of the Lycaenidea family) sunbathes in the Himalaya. It is a fairly common, quick and small butterfly which is usually found around springtime in the Uttarakhand region.

hills · flowers

Spring time is clearly upon our hills, as one sees a lot of Rhizomatic Iris in deep blue flowering at wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the Himalaya. These iris bulbs propagate and multiply not through bulbs or regular roots but rhizomes.

hills

Allium and daffodil winter bulb planting in the Himalaya: Growing flowering onion varieties and different types of narcissus at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills

The Cantonment Board and the Defence Estates Office won a court case against Mumbai hotelier Sanjay Narang, and the court ordered the demolition of Dahlia Bank or Halycon Manor.

hills · aerial

Stunning aerials of climbing in Ladakh Himalaya, around Stok and Golep Kangri.

hills · flowers

Watch Painted Lady and Hill Jezebel (Delias belladonna) butterflies as they suck nectar from garden escape now-wild Dahlia flowers on a sunny day in the Himalaya, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary.

hills

An ambitious repair and renovation project at a Buddhist site in the Himalaya, to excavate and restore an ancient monastery - gompa structure in Himachal Pradesh. Women and men labourers carry stones and materials for the restoration work.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Life among cliffs, Oak forests and Berberis aristata bushes, this is truly the good life for this Goral or wild mountain goat of the Himalaya, living under the protection of the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Mussoorie, Uttarak…

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Monsoon clouds roll in over the Himalaya, circle and re-encircle each hilltop in slow motion time lapse, as seen from wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Estate, during the July peak monsoon month in 2021.

hills · snow

Tree Pipit is a winter visitor that also breeds in North-West Himalayas. Buffish brown to greyish ground color to upperparts (lacking greenish-olive cast of the Olive-backed pipit), and buffish edges to wing feathers.

hills · aerial

A large trekking campsite spread across the rugged alpine terrain of Kuari Pass in Uttarakhand.

festival · village

When one village stones another! Team orange at Bagwal festival of Devidhura Champawat, Uttarakhand With much revelry and camaraderie, the grotesque stone pelting festival gets off to a start as villagers converge at the Bagwal Festival gro…