“Himalayas”

Nepal

On Mt. Everest, living in a tent at 25, 000 feet near the summit camp. The cold, desolation, ambition, steepness of terrain and stress all come together as one tries to sleep in this low oxygen zone... Add a windy outside to the equation!

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…

Ladakh

Hanle in Changthang region of Ladakh is one of the most beautiful, enchanting, calm and soul loosing places in India. Hanle has a lovely Hanle Monastery offering some great aerial views of whole village that is a home of about 1000 people.

Uttarakhand·birds

Grey headed woodpecker The Grey-headed Woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the Grey-faced Woodpecker, is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family Piciformes. It is 25--28 cm long and weighs 130-180 grams.

wildlife · birds

The Alpine Chough or Yellow-billed Chough, (Pyrrhocorax graculus) is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax.

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.

industry · architecture

Construction workers precariously stand on a scaffolding and install corrugated galvanized metal sheets along the roofline and upper wall of a building in a mountainous or rural setting.

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.

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand·flowers

This exquisite miniature Rose flowering shrub goes into summer floral profusion mode at our country garden in Landour, Uttarakhand.

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.

Jammu and Kashmir·snow · temple

Pilgrims proceed to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in Kashmir to worship the ice stalagmite Lingam. Amarnath cave is a Hindu shrine located in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is dedicated to Shiva.

Jammu and Kashmir·snow · temple

Men carrying Hindu pilgrim, make their pilgrimage to the sacred holy cave shrine of Amarnath in Kashmir to worship the ice stalagmite Lingam. Amarnath cave is a Hindu shrine located in Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is dedicated to Shiva.

Himachal Pradesh

'Use Me' says the dust bin, and the donkey tips into it with its mouth, to get some leftover food.

river · festival

Pilgrims on their way to Manimahesh. Colourful tents are set up for them where they can rest for sometime and then move forward. Manimahesh Lake is situated at 27 Kms from Bharmour at the foot of Manimahesh Kailash.

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.

Found in the northern parts of Himachal Pradesh and Garhwal, this is a plant of open slopes and high meadows.

flowers

A large genus of over 60 species, many differing by minute botanical characters. It is very easy to identify plants as belonging among the Gentians by the characteristic shape of the flowers- the corolla being funnel-shaped and longer than…

Uttarakhand·birds

A brood of Scaly-bellied Woodpecker chicks waits for their parents to return with food, as they view the world for the first time, from the cosy comfort of their nest hole in Landour, Uttarakhand.

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.