“Himalayas”

hills · river

The Jallandhri Garh torrent flows through the Kiarkoti valley below Lamkhaga pass in Uttarakhand.

wildlife · birds

A pair of Brown Dipper birds in spring. The male courts the female and tries to feed here even as they battle the cold blue waters of the Jalandhri Garh torrent above Harsil in the high Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The piercing whistles of the Mountain Hawk Eagle are a familiar and inspiring reminder of the freedom and wilderness of the lower and middle Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·temple · hills

Old footage from before the cataclysmic Uttarakhand Flooods, and before the damage occurred to the Kedarnath temple. According to Mahabharata the elder brother of Pandavas, Yudhistir started his journey to the heaven from Kedarnath.

hills

Follow the tracks of downhill skiiers as you fly over the mountains of the western Himalaya in winter - a unique experience thanks to our choppercam!

hills

What massive slug we found high up in the Himalaya! Help us identify the species... This looks like a Black European Slug. Please do help us confirm the species.

hills

When trekking in the high Himalaya, especially in winter, the skies tend to be so clear that the moon and stars actually appear closer than as seen from the plains. There is less of the atmosphere hindering the view, as well.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Collared Pygmy Owlet on an Quercus oak tree in Landour, Uttarakhand. 6th February, 2014. Glaucidium brodiei resides across the Himalaya and north-east India. it is really tiny and barred heavily.

forest · wildlife

Rare archival footage of logging operations in the Himalaya in the early twentieth century. Tree trunks are being floated down a river, and moved along by men on canoes.

birds · wildlife

A Himalayan Woodpecker (Dendrocopos himalayensis) clinging vertically to a moss-covered tree branch. The bird uses its strong bill to repeatedly peck at the tree's surface while searching for insects and larvae beneath the bark.

Mussoorie, Uttarakhand·festival · village

Villagers come together to pillage the Aglar nadi on one day each June. Villagers pack away the catch and return home after fishing, and show off the day's haul, after Maund Mela 2024 Fish killing festival that takes place below Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

A stunning timelapse captures the grandeur of Jaonli peak in the Garhwal Himalayan Range as seen from Jabbarkhet, Mussoorie.

hills · wildlife

This video captures a Himalayan Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes montana) moving through the rough, arid mountain terrain of the high Himalayas.

hills

The Hudhud or Upupa epops is the common Eurasiean Hoopoe. The familiar Common or Eurasian Hoopoe has a wide distribution across, Asia, India and Europe, and lives from plains to high altitudes.

hills · flowers

Monsoon time flowering of the burgundry (almost purple-black) Arum Lilies at our Himalayan gardens. Burgundy Velvet Calla Lilies being harvested at wildfilmsindia botanical arboretum in the Himalaya

flowers · hills

Giant Mammoth Yellow Crocus flowers open and close with the change in daylight, at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

hills

Blue skies, spiky peaks of the Garhwal Himalayan mountains and valley as filmed in autumn. Rarely seen deep gorges to snow-clad mountains and valley. Rugged mountains covered in alpine vegetation.

hills

Bikers have stopped overnight in the Himalaya, in a small town. The repair and check their motorcycle tyres before the next gruelling stretch of the rally the next day.

industry · hills

A view of carnivorous plants like Venus fly trap and Sarracenia flava that can be grown but are not indigenous to the Himalaya, Western ghats, Nepal and Afghanistan. Carnivorous plant grows well in regions with high temperature.

monsoon · hills

Kanchenjunga, the highest peak in India, along the Indo-Nepal border, presides over a wide swathe monsoon clouds that hang low over the eastern Himalaya during the middle monsoon season over West Bengal and Sikkim in India.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · aerial

Aerial view of the cycling expedition in Himalaya in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh. The western bikers step down from the stage after getting the awards while other bikers sit in the front row before the stage.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Stunning pink, red, purple and white Dahlia successfully compete with Roscoea purpurea and Commelina paludosa wild flowers in the Himalaya, at our wildfilmsindia estate of Jabbarkhet around Mussoorie.

flowers · hills

A garden escape species - Primula denticulata flowers in early spring at the wildfilmsindia estate in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

flowers · hills

A Cabbage White butterfly offers itself to a receptive mate on a spring-time afternoon in the high Himalaya, close to the tree-line. It protrudes its abdomen outwards in an attempt to mate.