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hills · flowers

Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park located in Uttarakhand state. Valley was declared a national park in 1982, and now it is a World Heritage Site.

ceremony · hills

Prayer flag is a colorful panel or rectangular cloth found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes.There are two kinds of prayer flags: horizontal ones, called…

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Himalayan Fox at its kill, competing with Pied Magpies, in upper Ladakh, winter 2011. Himalayan Fox is one of the rare species in Ladakh. Himalayan Fox are adapted to the cold environment.

snow · wildlife

Footprints of Snow Leopard in ladakh. Snow Leopard is a moderately large cat native to the mountain ranges of South Asia and Central Asia.

hills · snow

Snow covered mountains in Ladakh. Ladakh lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south.

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Ladakh is the highest plateau of the Indian state of Kashmir with much of it being over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). It spans the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges and the upper Indus River valley.

ceremony · hills

These are Buddhist prayer flags from Leh in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. A prayer flag is a colorful panel or rectangular cloth found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countrysi…

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Ladakh is the highest plateau of the Indian state of Kashmir with much of it being over 3,000 m (9,800 ft). It spans the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges and the upper Indus River valley.

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Apricot and poplar trees in the Kashmir autumn, with a cold water stream flowing below. Autumn colours at their best! Yes - India has a fall season, too, especially high up in the Himalaya and trans-Himalaya such as Ladakh in Kashmir state,…

Ladakh·bazaar · hills

A Maruti Gypsy 1300 cc engine SUV in Leh Bazaar. Leh bazaar - the 'urban' heart of Ladakh! A trucker pauses on the state highway, as the camera provides a sweeping view of the surroundings. Shops and crowds in the mountain township of Leh.

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Toyota Innova driving in high altitude rough conditions in Ladakh, India. Wide sweeping pans from a road beyond Leh and views from a moving vehicle. Ladakh is a region of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state of the Republic of India.

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Aerial high angle shot of a valley in Ladakh, through a frame of prayer flags with a brown apparently desolate river valley below. Ladakh is a region in India totally isolated from the modern world.

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hills · river

Brown Dipper in a Himalayan torrent. This brave little bird swims in fast-flowing Himalayan streams, for its insect prey.Bird swimming in river water against the flow of the river trying to catch a fish.

snow · hills

An avalanche down a steep couloir or rocky ravine running over a cliff, in the Himalaya, as seen in the upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh, India.

Uttarakhand·village · hills

Village life in the Indian countryside, in the lower Himalaya. Kids play cricket in the wheat fields below Uttarkashi and Matli.

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This clip shows the time lapes of dark cloude in Himalayan.

hills · aerial

Flying over the Himalaya in a helicopter. View the mountains of north India from the cabin of a Llama or Cheetah helicopter! Fly up the Parvati valley and high above Manali in Himachal Pradesh.

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Over the Himalaya in a helicopter! Whip right over a snowy ridge in a Helibernina Lama! View the mountains of Bara Bangahal in Himachal Pradesh from the air! Where in the world can you helicopter so high in terms of altitude? Gasp as you he…

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360 degrees round a granite spire, Bond style! A Llama helicopter circles a granite tower in the Himalaya, as filmed from another machine, in a 360 degree shot, straight out of a James Bond film! Welcome to high adventure in the Himalaya...…

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Srikantha and cloud time lapse, from the Lamkhaga valley, up the Jallandhri Garh, above Harsil, Uttarakhand, India. The peaks visible as Srikantha / Srikant / Srikanth to the right, and the Gangotri peaks to the left.

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Time lapse of clouds. Srikantha and cloud time lapse, from the Lamkhaga valley, up the Jallandhri Garh, above Harsil, Uttarakhand, India. The peaks visible as Srikantha / Srikant / Srikanth to the right, and the Gangotri peaks to the left.

hills · sport

Shots of Himalayan mountains covered with sno, as seen from a helicopter. A helicopter passes through a twenty foot wide gap between a rocky spire and the Himalayan giant of Ali Ratni Tibba, at 20, 000 feet altitude, leaving a gap of just a…