“Himalayas”

flowers · hills

The Wilderness Orchard and Himalayan botanical garden comes together with a major round of autumn planting of bulbs all of which have started flowering this winter-spring! Visit us in Uttarakhand, if you're in this part of the world...

hills · politics

A TVC for the "Incredible India" campaign, showing India's wilderness and outdoors. The Incredible India campaign, conceptualized initially by Amitabh Kant, and launched by Ms.

hills

The trek up to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest (Sagarmatha / Chomolongma) in Nepal, goes through the Sagarmatha National Park, and some fantastic wild mountain country.

hills

The trek up to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest (Sagarmatha / Chomolongma) in Nepal, goes through the Sagarmatha National Park, and some fantastic wild mountain country.

hills

Marmots (Himalayan Marmot - Marmota himalayana) . Filmed on HDCAM in Gurudongmar, north Sikkim, India, on the Tibetan plateau. Marmots are generally large ground squirrels.

Uttarakhand·festival

The annual International Yoga Festival is organized by Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. This year they present a truly International Yoga Festival grounded in the authentic origin of Yoga.

Jammu and Kashmir·hills · river

This is a very telling image - straight out of The Man Who Would be King. One can almost see Peachy Carnahan and Daniel Dravot somewhere in the crowd, causing some mayhem! This is old world India, the Himalaya, and the trans Himalaya, all m…

hills · aerial

Aerial Shot of Mountanous landscape of Himachal Pradesh. See the steeps slopes and rocky grooved faces of the middle mountains, and you see the work of geology and evolution at play! Manali (alt.

hills

A Himalayan resident! The Blue-winged Minla (Minla cyanouroptera), also known as the Blue-winged Siva, is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. It has in the past been placed in the genus Minla instead of the monotypic Siva.

temple · village

Garhwal Rifles band accompanies Gangotri idol as it enters Mukhba village Much pomp and pageantry accompanies the winter movement of the Gangotri temple idol on its winter journey.

temple · river

High altitude bagpiping in the Himalaya! It's not a joke playing the bagpipes at the dry winter air of the Uttarakhand Himalaya at an altitude of more than 10, 000 feet! The shrine idols are moved when the shrine shuts for the winter, like…

Uttarakhand·bazaar · highway

Mussoorie has a well stocked market place where you can shop around for just about anything you need.

Tehri, Uttarakhand·hills · festival

Maun Mela in Tehri Garhwal and nearby regions like Jaunsar and Rawai, villagers gather in flowing rivers for a unique traditional fishing practice.

hills · flowers

A Great Blackvein butterfly is feeding on nectar from a small wildflower in a natural outdoor habitat. Its pale wings marked with dark vein patterns are visible while it remains perched on the flower during feeding activity.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

A fascinating masked dance performance during the Bhratra Festival near Tungnath Temple and Chopta in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

These Impatiens or wild Balsam flowers were filmed at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens at Jabbarkhet in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, during the peak of the monsoon season.

Uttarakhand

Viewers - do help us identify these moths that we filmed in and around Landour in Uttarakhand, India.

hills · snow

Heli-skiing is off-trail, downhill skiing that is accessed by a helicopter, as opposed to a ski lift.

festival · hills

Garhwal is located in the state of Uttarakhand, which is a northern hill province of India. The area has its own traditions, festivals and culture.

flowers · industry

View the entrance to the Shingba / Singhba Rhododendron sanctuary on the outskirts of Yumthang in north Sikkim. See a Rhubarb plant (which is edible!) next to a flowering plant of Yellow Poppy.

hills · wildlife

What a lovely call really! This is such a familiar sound to summer-time trekkers in Himalayan valleys. The European (or Eurasian, for the politically correct birder!) Cuckoo frequents the entire Himalayan range.

wildlife · birds

Two exemplars of White-throated Laughingthrush (Garrulax albogularis) are spotted foraging for insects in the grass. Further on, they are seem on branches.

snow · hills

Yaks grazing in snow covered Himalayan mountains of Ladakh in Kashmir, India. Yak is the dominant livestock species that support livelihoods for pastoralist of the Tibetan plateau and nearby Himalayan regions.

wildlife · birds

Flock of thousands of Demoisellle Cranes flying over Rajasthan, India. The demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) is a species of crane found in central Eurasia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China.