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Himalayan camp bonfire on a trek to Rudragaira , with much clapping, cheer, mirth and camp entertainment

aerial · hills

An aerial journey over the coasts and hills of Ireland, looking down to the mountain country and flying down to the beaches, with surfers and clear sands.

livestock · hills

A herd of Himalayan Blue Sheep or Blue Sheep (Pseudois nayaur) grazes in the dry grass on the slopes in late autumn in the Himalayas. They look like a mix of sheep and goat.

wildlife · hills

Musk deer are artiodactyls of the genus Moschus, the only genus of family Moschidae. Moschus moschiferus is the Himalayan or Siberian Musk Deer.

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High altitude winter camping in the Chhaiyan Gad valley. Camp life in the morning comprises of the camp cook and porters preparing a brunch of vegetables, rice and sometimes of Maggi noodles, breaking camp and preparing for the day's march…

Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand·hills

In spring hail-snow conditions, one walks to the Haunted House of Lal Kothi at Jabbarkhet, in Lanodur-Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. The spring-time conditions are dry and brown, but the sudden hail has put paid to all the plants and flowers.

hills · snow

So adept and sure footed are they on inch-wide cliffs, with thousand foot falls below, that none can beat an Ibex for comfortable walk along the cliffs, munching on dry grasses along the way...

Himachal Pradesh·hills · snow

Across the snow barren cliffs and mountain faces of winter-time Spiti, a herd of Himalayan Ibex looks for dry sedges and grasses, as their modest lean season sustenance.

Himachal Pradesh·hills

A brave Himalayan Fox, with a long bushy tail, tramps the high altitude snowfields of Spiti as it searches for rodents, marmot young and other potential prey during the tough winter lean season when food is difficult to come by, temperature…

Himachal Pradesh·farmland · highway

The old Himachal slate-roofed homes are giving way to concretized homes with tin roofs and multiple water tanks, parking lots and much cementing, thanks to apply orchard money coming into the hinterland.

Uttarakhand·dance · river

Does this video not inspire just these thoughts? Just our thoughts as we admired our own Himalayan kheti at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens at Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand.

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From a bright day to a dark one, darkness at noon! A summer storm is brewing and the mists swirl in along with the clouds, and the deodars or Himalayan Cedars look eerily haunting in the approaching storm, even as the weather turns beautifu…

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As clouds shoot past in our wildfilmsindia sanctuary, our white Irises are in full bloom and the Common Hill Partridge calls out to its partner across the valley... The distant peaks of the Gangotri range can be seen beyond the ridge.

snow · hills

Peeling onions within a kitchen tent at the Base Camp of a Himalayan peak in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Tea mugs sit outside the tent, as the camp prepares dinner and digs in for the night.

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In Garhwal, one can easily get to over 19, 000 feet with a variety of trekking peaks that require no technical expertise to climb, except a moderate level of fitness.

Ladakh·river · hills

The old abandoned fortified monastery atop a hill at Shey can be seen, with its battlements and fortifications in poor shape now.

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…

river · farmland

Fly over the field of chortens or stupas near Shey and also over Thiksey Gompa in Ladakh. Scattered across a field next to the Indus river, is one of the largest chorten fields of Ladakh, with hundreds of chortens.

Uttarakhand·hills

Amid mid-winter snow in the winter of 2020, St. George's and Wynberg Allen Schools can be seen on a clear winter day from Landour, Mussoorie, as can the Shivalik range across the Dehra dun valley and the misty valley of Dehradun below.

river · forest

Deodar or Cedrus deodara Himalayan Cedar forests around Harsil in upper Uttarakhand, near Gangotri. A waterfall gushes forth from a tributary stream, leading into the Ganga near Harsil and Mukhba.

river · hills

It is late winter along the Tirthan river in Himachal Pradesh, in the Great Himalayan National Park, and this pair of Brown Dippers is at the peak of the pre-breeding season activity.

snow · hills

In parts of the Himalaya, the summer snowmelt is so extreme that the peaks are left bereft of snow cover.

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