“Himalayas”

flowers · industry

This beautiful perennial plant can be found growing in the wild in the Himalayas, from Kashmir to Nepal. It is a handsome leafy plant bearing elegant spikes of large, nodding, dark blue-purple, bell-shaped flowers.

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.

livestock

Blue sheep, (genus Pseudois), also called bharal, either of two species of sheeplike mammals, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), that inhabit upland slopes in a wide range throughout China, from Inner Mongolia to the Himalayas.

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.

Jammu and Kashmir

The flight from Srinagar to Jammu lasts only half an hour but is long enough to mesmerise a passenger with closeup views of the Himalayas.

river

A close up shot of a stream water frozen due to winters in the Himalayas which can go as low as - 10 degrees. If looked upon closely, one can make out the ripples and the flow of the water too.

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).

industry · hills

A single-storey building under construction against forested Himalayan hills. A long standing-seam metal roof, clerestory windows, and bamboo scaffolding are already in place, while sections of the walls remain unfinished.

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.

snow · wildlife

Snow leopards are so well adapted to their harsh mountainous habitat that even spotting them against a rocky backdrop can be almost impossible. The snow leopard’s powerful build allows it to scale great steep slopes with ease.

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.

snow

A traditional house made of mud and a vivid domestic scene in the mountains with food and spices dried on the rooftops. A wide view of the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas. A view of the Trident Peaks can be also seen.