“Himalayas”

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

The elegant grey and mild rufous of the Himalayan TreePie nicely complements the white throat patch and rufous underbelly of the White-throated Laughing Thrush as they carouse together to dig in the oak forest floor, for food and seeds, at…

hills · forest

Rudragaira valley from Gangotri to the second camp. This is the route to be followed to get to Auden's Col and to climb Rudragaira peak itself.

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

Nanda Devi is a two-peaked massif, forming a 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) long high ridge, oriented east-west. The west summit is higher, and the eastern summit is called Nanda Devi East.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

Hanging upside down as it plunders a wild Himalayan pear tree and bites off big chunks of ripe small wild pear fruit, this Rufous Sibia is the 'Three Cheers' caller, earlier known as the Black-capped Sibia, seen here at Jabbarkhet in the we…

hills · temple

Clouds timelapse at Katarmal, near the Sun Temple in Uttarakhand, capturing the dramatic movement of clouds sweeping across layered Himalayan mountains.

hills · old town

Experience the breathtaking beauty of the Jalandhri Gadh valley above Harsil (Uttarakhand), a hidden gem of the Garhwal Himalayas.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

Delicate bird of the plains that visits us in the mountains each year: Blue-bearded Bee-eater at Motidhar Blue bearded Bee-eater: Rare sighting of this smart insect eating superb flyer with a beard, in Mussoorie, at the Wilderness Orchard a…

aerial · temple

Mukhba temple priests prepare to despatch the Gangotri idol to the Gangotri temple prior to the doors or kapath opening in end April 2025, as seen aerially, in this aerial view, from the air.

hills · birds

Collecting faecal globules from their derrierer, this pair of White-throated Laughing Thrushes take their chicks out from the nest for their first flight into the big bad world! Nesting duties of the White-throated Laughing thrush of the Hi…

flowers · hills

Calanthe plantaginea is a beautiful and rare light lilac coloured flowering ground orchid found in the wildfilmsindia forests in the western Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Bunches of run-wild Crocuses have taken over our early monsoon late summer hillsides at the Jabbarkhet botanical gardens of wildfilmsindia, overlooking the plains and the higher mountains of the Himalaya, as garden escapes that have got nat…

hills · forest

The Wild mountain goat of the Himalaya, known as the Goral, is a widespread resident of steep rock faces, cliffs with grassy knolls and thick forested scree slopes.

Uttarakhand·temple · river

Hot sulfur / sulphur water boils up in this spring at Yamunotri temple. Pilgrims and devotees bathe in this water that wells up from the womb of the Himalaya, to wash away their ills near the high altitude temple that lies at the source of…

forest · hills

Kalij Pheasant makes beautiful trilling - clicking sounds as it ascends tree to roost for the night, its crest or white kalgi feathers glowing at dusk and jauntily waving or moving back and forth in a sprightly fashion! The more drab brown…

hills · desert

A striking high-altitude landscape in Mirpal Tso, nestled within the rugged terrain of the Ladakh Range in the Himalayas.

flowers · hills

A Rufous Sibia visits flowering Himalayan Cherry tree, providing a colourful burst of an autumn colour palette.

livestock · hills

Sheep Kids scuffle with each other, clashing their non-existent horns in a Himalayan forest, practicing and preparing for the big world out there for them! Clash of the baby titans! Sheep Shearing in the Himalaya: Man lies down bhed like a…

Himachal Pradesh·temple · architecture

Sulphurous water bubbles out from the womb of the earth. Many places in the Himalaya and hot water springs that carry sulphur in their water and are said to be salubrious to bathe in.

hills

Just what are these butterflies doing active and alert in the Himalayan winter, at 14, 000 feet when the night temperatures dip to well below 0 degrees Celcius? Just how do cold blooded insects deal with such extremes? The Common Wall is se…

hills

The Pika or Mouse-Hare of the Himalaya ia a lagomorph and not a rodent. We filmed this cute furry little mammal at 16, 000 feet in the Himalaya, on a cold early winter day as it scurried about in the sun, trying to take in enough nutrition…

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

With a Hill Barbet and a Blue-throated Barbet calling, and a Rufous Sibia too, a Grey-winged Blackbird takes full advantage of the display of Rhododendron flower heads before it, above our Bindal stream at Motidhar Estate in Mussoorie.

snow · river

Terminal icefall and water fall from the Chhaian Bamak glacier which comes from Bandarpunch peaks and range in the Garhwal Himalaya of Uttarakhand in the western Himalaya, one of the critical water catchment areas for the Ganges riverine sy…

hills · ceremony

Soft white clouds drift gracefully across a deep blue sky near Gangotri Dham in Uttarakhand, creating a serene Himalayan atmosphere.

flowers · hills

Garden Anemone flowers in a multitude of colours from white and purple to red and maroon, at wildfilmsindia Garden Anemone de caen flowers in red and white, with cottony seed heads drying off and dispersing in the wind.