“Himalayas”

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Wanderer butterfly sucking nectar from Aesculus flower in Landour. In May each year, thousands of Great Blackvein butterflies (Aporia agathon) descend on the blooms of the Himalayan Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica) at the Wilderness Orchard…

Uttarakhand·hills

Making of leather boots by a mountain shoe maker in Landour, near Mussoorie, India. Shoe making: Traditional process.

hills · flowers

Plums growing at a Himalayan orchard, India. A plum is a fruit of the subgenus Prunus of the genus Prunus.

flowers · hills

Horned Lousewort, the curious species, inhabits tough and sometimes inaccessible areas of the Himalayan cold deserts.

hills

hills · festival

A convoy of cars and trucks leads from Kargil into the Suru Valley of Zanskar, past Lamayuru monastery in Ladakh, and its fabulous creations of soil that resemble a moonscape or moonland structure more than anything on earth! Was this the w…

architecture · hills

On 19th November 2012, A major fire broke out at Himalaya House on Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Delhi in the early morning.

architecture · hills

On 19th November 2012, A major fire broke out at Himalaya House on Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Delhi in the early morning.

Ladakh·hills

Rangdum is the last inhabited place in the Suru valley and is known for the Rangdum Monastery or Gonpa. The Gonpa and the area around it provide great views of the Himalayan peaks in the Suru valley and the Zanskar region.

hills

A Himalayan Griffon Vulture wipes its beak on deodar leaves after a meal of carrion. It further pecks at wood on the dead wood branch it is sitting on and proceeds to preen and clean its under-wing feathers.

hills · snow

View of Assam from the air. Also seen are tributaries and larger flood plain of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, India.

hills

Neptis hylas, the common sailor, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia. We found this one in a moist valley in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · monsoon

Trekkers have a deep snowpack pit stop for rest while climbing atop Kalindi Khal, at near 20K feet altitude Walking in near white out conditions, with no visibility en route Kalindi Khal pass between Gangotri and Badrinath valleys.

Landour, Uttarakhand·hills · birds

At the Wilderness Orchard and Botanical gardens in Landour, Mussoorie, a Himalayan Pied Woodpecker gets to work on a dead wood log of deodar wood at the Jabbarkhet Estate, and then moves to a live Oak, banj or Quercus incana tree.

hills

Right above Dayara and Gidara Buggyal the tree line vanishes and one sees barren, treeless Himalayan hill faces.

hills · forest

A tented camp in a deodar forest in Himachal Pradesh reveals itself above the forest layer. A team of mountain biking enthusiasts cycle in to camp for the night.

hills

Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand·hills · river

The high-altitude landscape of Darma Valley in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, India. Steep, rugged Himalayan ridges descend into a broad valley where a small cluster of mountain houses is nestled on the valley floor.

Uttarakhand·hills · architecture

In the quiet forested surroundings of Mussoorie, an abandoned house long associated with local ghost stories is being demolished.

wildlife · birds

Observe the Himalayan Black Bulbul in its natural forest habitat as it feeds on Pyrus pashia, the wild Himalayan pear, perched gracefully on tree branches during the soft morning golden light.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Most beautiful Himalayan flower? Born of seed contributed by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, and grown by wildfilmsindia in our Himalaya...

hills · flowers

Paeonia emodi, a species of wild Peony that is endemic to the upper Himalaya, grows at the wildfilmsindia botanical gardens in Uttarakhand.

river · monsoon

A pair of frogs mating at our wildfilmsindia Pari Tibba Estate in the Himalaya, around our trout ponds. Help us identify the species of frog we're seeing here at an altitude of 6500 feet in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Standing at 'Land's End' at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, one can see the monsoon clouds of the plains welling up into the hills, with the promise of rain...