“Himalayas”

hills · sport

Being ridden for hundreds of kilometres a day on dirt tracks in Raid de Himalaya, the bikes require service at the end of every race day. Shown

monsoon · hills

What steady focus and concentration, this caterpillar chows down on a ginger leaf, meticulously trying to finish the leaf and damage the plan, to ensure its own existence! What species of caterpillar would this be? A butterfly one, perhaps?…

Himachal Pradesh·farmland · snow

It is interesting to see the pattern of frozen snow on the agricultural fields of the high Himalaya, in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh.

wildlife · snow

A well-planned attack turns to dross. The Snow Leopard was well concealed behind a rock and nicely placed just above the grazing Ibex.

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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.