hills

hills

hills

hills

hills

Uttarakhand·highway · hills

Drive from Landour to Uttarkashi and head beyond to the wintery snowed-over mountains beyond Sukhi Top pass and into the apple valley of Harsil, over rough tracks and slippery iced over road surfaces.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · highway

Early morning light in Shimla on a wintery snowed-over day in 2020. The roads see a lot of traffic as tourists and plains-persons are heading up to see the bounty of snow which actually brings the hill station to a grinding halt.

hills

What massive slug we found high up in the Himalaya! Help us identify the species... This looks like a Black European Slug. Please do help us confirm the species.

river · lake

A tourist vehicle enters a Ladakh lake valley at nightfall, just as the sun has set and a beautiful darkness sets in over the lake. Guess which lake this in Ladakh, folks?

hills · village

Lovely mid-winter views of Mahla, Srikantha and Lamkhaga pass and peak in Garhwal Himalaya above Harsil in Uttarakhand state. The fields and apple orchards are above Mahla village and Dharali gaon. The peak is of Mahla near Srikantha.

festival · dance

Budhist nuns dance and sing during the Naropa Festival in Ladakh. Hemis is an idyllic village in Ladakh, in Northern India . The town is just over 40 km southeast of the town of Leh.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

A distant view of the Haunted House hill of Jabbarkhet. The Himalayan Weavers hill and the grasslands and forest beyond that, at Pepperpot hill above Kaplani and Masrana on the Mussoorie-Dhanolti road axis.

hills · river

Hemis monastery, where the famous festival is held each year, and the more famous Naropa Festival is held, is situated in a side valley above the Indus river, with the river winding up the valley with the only green cover of willow and popl…

Leh, Ladakh·river · hills

Hemis Monastery lies at the lower end of the Hemis national park and the trek starts from there. Stakna and Thiksey lie along the Indus river upstream from Leh.

hills · aerial

An aerial journey of the blue mountains of South India, the Nilgiri Hills. Nilgiri Hills, mountainous region of Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India.

Uttarakhand·hills

Misty time-lapse from the hills of Jabarkhet, Uttarakhand. From the private property of WildFilmsIndia at Jabbarkhet Estate, the view is surreal.

Maharashtra·hills

Moonlight consists of mostly sunlight (with little earthlight) reflected from the parts of the Moon's surface where the Sun's light strikes. Moon glistens in the summer night air at Nimkhedi Valley in Nandurbar, Maharashtra.

highway · hills

Cyclists brave the highway traffic on the curvy hills in Ranikhet, Uttarakhand during the Mountain Trek Bike challenge.

hills

The tribal women in Sangla Valley with the Himachali cap leave a gathering together as they indulge in socializing. Kinnauri tribal women wear these caps also worn by the men instead of 'Dhatus' worn by women in other parts of Himachal.

industry · hills

Road construction workers prepare materials for the repair of a damaged embankment near a deep flowing river in Northern India, within the Himalayan range.

hills · forest

An aerial view of a forest fire in the hills of northern India.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · snow

Indian man dares snowy Spiti valley, does summer salt and headstand in the wild winters of Himachal Pradesh.

river · temple

A spectacular view of Gangotri temple, along the initial route of the Ganges river, as it flows down from the Gaumukh glacier in the Himalaya.The source of the Ganga is close at hand from Gangotri temple which is also the staging point for…

Mizoram·hills

A view of the densely packed hill station town of Aizawl in Mizoram, with multi-storeyed buildings defying the steep mountains and seismic zones of north-east India.