hills

Himachal Pradesh·hills · wildlife

A house stands in solitary in the dry barren valley of Spiti in Himachal Pradesh. A holding pen for domesticated yaks is seen a little away from the house. Robin Accentors are seen around the premises of the house.

forest · hills

A Deodar Cedar (Cedrus deodora) tree laden with cedar cones in Uttarakhand. Closeups of the cones looking like edible fruits. The cones are the source of seeds for the proliferation of the species.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Shoots of hope spring forth among the black cinders and ash of a Himalayan oak forest burned by a forest fire which started due to a careless cigarette butt being thrown into dry leaves.

Himachal Pradesh·hills

Robin Accentors ( Prunella rubeculoides) perch on metal poles in the dry, cold valley of Spiti in Himachal Pradesh. These birds are found in the high altitude mountain ranges of the Himalayas.

temple · river

Lohaghat is a small hill station in the district of Champawat, Uttarakhand. This place receives a lot of footfall due to this old Shiva temple.

Uttarakhand·hills · architecture

The dense cover of clouds over the hills of Landour and Mussoorie in a time-lapse video. Some famous attractions here include the Woodstock School (the buildings in red, packed close to each other), the Landour bazaar and the clock tower be…

hills · river

Sangla is a town in the Baspa Valley, also referred to as the Sangla valley, in the Kinnaur District of Himachal Pradesh, India, close to the Tibetan border. The Valley lies perched on slopes near the carries banks of Baspa River.

river · hills

Sangla is a town in the Baspa Valley, also referred to as the Sangla valley, in the Kinnaur District of Himachal Pradesh, India, close to the Tibetan border. The Valley lies perched on slopes near the carries banks of Baspa River.

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Arranged at a tallness of 4551 meters above ocean level, the Kunzum Pass or Kunzum La is one of India's most elevated motorable mountain passes, and is situated in Himachal Pradesh in North India. It connects Lahul valley and Spiti valley.

hills · river

Places like these in the Himalayas, where people need to use trolleys to carry themselves across the river. It might seem like an adventure but for villagers living in the remotest of areas, this is the only means to reach their houses.

Uttarakhand·river · hills

A view from the top of Nainital's high point at Tiffen top, looking down to the lake below with boaters and tourists. A 1990's view of the hill station town that is now bursting at the seams.

hills · flowers

Our editor bunched up several lots of footage in here! We collected a massive stock of spring-time flowering Arum Lilies from our stream-side orchard in the Himalaya, and filled up our flower vases with them! Qatar flight best-of - on board…

Uttarakhand·hills

A peek at Himalayan peaks from Landour above Mussoorie. Early morning sun hits the summits from the east, over Swargarohini (Ladder of heaven, from where the Pandavas ascended to heaven, at the end of the Mahabharatha), Bandarpunch range be…

hills · flowers

As our team slogs up the hill in cold wintery conditions from Dharali village before Harsil and Gangotri in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, they come across Rhododendron campanulatum shrubs with frost and icy snow in the lower alpine zone.

hills · forest

In the headwaters of the Ganges lies this seldom explored or visited valley above Dharali, with vast Himalayan Silver Birch and conifer forests in the sub snow line...

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

This smartly-attired male Drak grey Bushchat brings in a regular suppply of fresh spring-time grubs to feed to its chicks, sitting as it does in the bright Himalayan morning sun, chirping and preening on an Oak branch and then a Berberis tw…

snow · hills

A brilliant mid-winter high altitude view of the Bandarpunch range of the Garhwal Himalaya. See the laden glaciers near the summits of Kalanag or Black Peak and White Peak or Bandarpunch West, as seen from across the valley, from the slopes…

Uttarakhand·hills

Help us identify this rare fungus that we found growing on one of our deodar trees at the wildfilmsindia conservation center at Jabbarkhet, Landour, Uttarakhand, in the western Himalaya.

snow · ceremony

After a heavy snowfall a family visits the grave of their dead to clear off the piling snow from the grave. A woman prays near the grave.

hills · river

Zanskar river originates from the Himalayas, meets Indus river which originates from China and flows into Pakistan. Near Nimmu or Nimo in Ladakh is the point where the confluence between Zanskar and Indus rivers happens.

hills · highway

Just like in this video, we all have experienced massive traffic jams either while going up or coming down the hills.

hills · forest

Discovered and visited in the upper head waters of the Ganga catchment, this wild valley of Himalayan Silver Birch tree forests and wide buggyals and meadows is rarely visited.

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As one flies just as the crow flies, from the upper Dharali village slopes, into the White Peak or Bandarpunch valley, cross a ridge and you suddenly get the tip of Kalanag or Black Peak appear before you.