hills

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Black Bulbul on Berberis aristata shrub! Hill birds enjoy eating the blackish-blue berries of the Berberis bush, here seen in Landour.

hills · school

Conrad Anker talking about George Mallory, to a Himalayan Club audience in New Delhi. The Himalayan Club & The Explorers Club South Asia Chapter organized an illustrated talk "George Mallory - Everest Pioneer" by Conrad Anker at the India H…

hills · school

The Wildest Dream - Conquest of Everest. A National Geographic film presentation, as shown to a Himalayan Club audience in New Delhi. Conrad Anker talking about George Mallory, to a Himalayan Club audience in New Delhi.

hills · school

Conrad Anker talking about George Mallory, to a Himalayan Club audience in New Delhi. The Himalayan Club & The Explorers Club South Asia Chapter organized an illustrated talk "George Mallory - Everest Pioneer" by Conrad Anker at the India H…

hills · flowers

Cirsium thistle or Cirsium falconeri is found at higher altitudes, even as high as 4400 meters in the Himalaya! Onopordum acanthium or the Scotch Thistle as seen in the Valley of Flowers.

flowers · hills

The Brahma Kamal, the much reverred flower of the Himalayas, is an excellent example of plant life at the upper limit of high mountains (3,000-4,600 m).

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Clouds covered the Himalaya. Clouds cover the high mountains of Garhwal! Time lapse from the Bhyundar valley and Valley of Flowers national park.

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Clouds rolling in over the western Himalaya! Time lapse of clouds over the Bhyundar valley around the Valley of Flowers, around Mt. Rataban, in Uttarakhand.

flowers · hills

A mixed alpine garden of Jacob's ladder, Anemone, Ranunculus and Dactylorhiza. Dactylorhiza hatagirea (as named by Necker), is a species of terrestrial (ground-based) orchid. Different kinds of wild flowers in Valley of flowers.

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Masses of worms in the Himalaya! Can anyone help identify these? are they millipedes, centipedes, worms of another kind, or something altogether different? They're moving along in a seething mass, moving earth along with them.

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…

Jammu and Kashmir·hills · river

Water forms a milky stream on the way to Amarnath. Trout stream in Kashmir, India! A real fast-flowing cataract in the Himalaya...

Uttarakhand·temple · hills

Badrinath temple sometimes called Badrinarayan temple, is situated along the Alaknanda river, in the hill town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand. It is widely considered to be one of the holiest Hindu temples, and is dedicated to god Vishnu.

temple · hills

Badrinath temple sometimes called Badrinarayan temple, is situated along the Alaknanda river, in the hill town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand. It is widely considered to be one of the holiest Hindu temples, and is dedicated to god Vishnu.

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Monsoon clouds moving over the Ganga valley and storm over sal forest as seen from Ananda in the Himalaya spa, Uttarakhand / uttaranchal. The town of Rishikesh can be seen in the plains below...

Uttarakhand·temple · hills

The kapaath or temple door is opened in early May, by the namboodiri of a south Indian temples, to much fanfare. One can see the peak of Nilkanth right behind the temple, which is situated in the lower Mana valley of Garhwal.

Uttarakhand·temple · hills

Badrinath temple sometimes called Badrinarayan temple, is situated along the Alaknanda river, in the hill town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand. It is widely considered to be one of the holiest Hindu temples, and is dedicated to god Vishnu.

temple · hills

Badrinath temple sometimes called Badrinarayan temple, is situated along the Alaknanda river, in the hill town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand. It is widely considered to be one of the holiest Hindu temples, and is dedicated to god Vishnu.

temple · hills

Badrinath temple sometimes called Badrinarayan temple, is situated along the Alaknanda river, in the hill town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand. It is widely considered to be one of the holiest Hindu temples, and is dedicated to god Vishnu.

temple · hills

Badrinath temple sometimes called Badrinarayan temple, is situated along the Alaknanda river, in the hill town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand. It is widely considered to be one of the holiest Hindu temples, and is dedicated to god Vishnu.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · farmland

Start off from Pinjore airport, fly over fields and cultivation in the plains of India, and then enter the Shivalik foothills and lower Himalaya, as your helicopter steers you towards Manali! See terraced cultivation in the Himalaya, from a…

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.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · aerial

Aerial Shot of Mountainous landscape of Himachal Pradesh. Manali (alt. 1,950 m or 6,398 ft), in the Beas River valley, is an important hill station in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, India, near the northern end of the Kullu Valley.