“Himalayas”

hills · sport

A Canadian Bell 407 chopper cuts through the cold morning air along the upper reaches near Ali Ratni Tibba, Himachal Pradesh, india.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · river

See a solar panel in the background, to power up a street light, in the trans Himalaya of Spiti! Solar power in the Himalaya... Archival footage of rickety state road transport buses running in Spiri, Himachal Pradesh, many decades back.

village · hills

A lively tug-of-war contest unfolds on a large open field as two determined teams pull with all their strength in a spirited display of teamwork and endurance.

flowers

flowers

Gardeners and our assistant manager prepare the soil for sunflower seeds and then scatter seeds before planting them into the soil.

Uttarakhand

hills · flowers

Take a flight of fancy over the middle Himalayan forests protected by wildfilmsindia. This wild Cherry or padum tree grows within the protected zone in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, protects this population of Black Bulbuls that feed on seasonal fruit in our forest and orchard.

hills · birds

This lovely wild Owl calls each night at our Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens where we have provided them sanctuary, in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

Himachal Pradesh·festival · music

Indian Navy band plays military tunes at the annual Summer Festival in Shimla. This renowned event has been held regularly in Shimla since the 1960s and is a five day extravaganza.

hills · ceremony

This must be normal for these high altitude dwelling communities in Uttarakhand but for many of us, this is an exotic wedding with the Himalayan peaks on both sides of the valley.

Bhutan·hills

We filmed this rare Chumbi Wall butterfly in Bumthang, Bhutan. The Chumbi valley is in Tibet! (We have wrongly titled the first butterfly as a Common Sailor).

Uttarakhand·hills

A Himalayan glow-worm as seen in Landour, Uttarakhand, in May 2014. While climbing, this glow-worm seems to have lost its balance while climbing a leaf and fell right off the cliff-face, as we filmed it! A viewer tells us these are likely t…

flowers

Wallich Geranium is a perennial herb with paired rose-pink to red-purple flowers with pale centers. Flowers are large, 2.5-4 cm across. Sepals are bristly haired on veins.

Uttarakhand·hills

This video shows exactly how electric cables are changed in Landour. Even though electricity is important, these men are risking their lives to change electric cables bare handed and without any gears. Very dangerous.

hills

Himachal Pradesh

hills · village

Like the vultures in Mowgli and the Jungle Book of Kipling (Now what are we going to do?), these Griffons fight and spread their wings as a threat and to show dominance at the kill of a leopard around Agoda village in Garhwal, Uttarakhand.

birds · forest

What a lovely challenging yet cheery call this Laughing Thrush has, as it sits on a branch and establishes its territory, while taking preening breaks in between calling out! With a tone of familiarity, we have nick-named this common and fr…

hills

Standing just above the tree-line with the last Birch tree below me, I filmed this sequence from the meadows below Kiarkoti en route Lamkhaga pass, as the clouds cleared to reveal the most brilliant views of Srikantha and the Gangatri wall…