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Uttarakhand·snow · aerial

Chaukhamba aerial view: Himalayan glacier melts into little lakes under strain from climate change, rising temperature High altitude secret world of a Himalayan glacier complaining about climate change, with melting lakes atop its moraine!…

Uttarakhand·aerial · hills

High altitude secret world of a Himalayan glacier complaining about climate change, with melting lakes atop its moraine! Chaukhamba and lateral Kedarnath glacier stunning aerial view of Garhwal Himalaya, with emerald green glacial lakes.

Uttarakhand·snow · aerial

High altitude secret world of a Himalayan glacier complaining about climate change, with melting lakes atop its moraine! Chaukhamba and lateral Kedarnath glacier stunning aerial view of Garhwal Himalaya, with emerald green glacial lakes.

snow · hills

Chaukhamba Col ascent route traverses through treacherous glacial moraines and rock screes and mixed climbing grounds, with a combination of glacial ice, rock, fresh snow, scree and rockfall and avalanche danger zones, in the Garhwal Himala…

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Negotiating an icefall and glacier below Chaukhamba on the dangerous trek to the Col in Garhwal Negotiating an icefall and glacier below Chaukhamba on the dangerous trek to the Col in Garhwal Walking through the glacier Chaukhamba Col Trek

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

Snowfall and hail in Himalaya leads to dangerous slippery, slushy and skiddy road conditions after a summer storm: Plains drivers can't handle the conditions and they bunch up into convoys and drive together, sometimes driving into each ot…

Uttarakhand·snow · aerial

Chaukhamba and lateral Kedarnath glacier stunning aerial view of Garhwal Himalaya, with emerald green glacial lakes.

Uttarakhand·snow · aerial

A snow avalanche cascades down along Chaukhamba glacier, as seen aerially in the Garhwal Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·snow · hills

Chaukhamba and lateral Kedarnath glacier stunning aerial view of Garhwal Himalaya, with emerald green glacial lakes.

river · snow

Leh wetlands, streams, snow-covered passes and high altitude meadows in Ladakh's fall colour season Pastureland across the Wari La pass, Sakti valley and Chemrey / Chemdey gompa, fall colours, driving along the Indus river plains.

Mussoorie, Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

Hail stones and rain fall together around Mussoorie. Hail and rain in Uttarakhand: Climate change could now mean middle Himalaya gets more hail than snow

snow · hills

Walking crunch-crunch in freshly fallen hail at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Climate change seems to have swapped snowfall for hail, and hardly any snow seems to be received now.

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Mid-summer snowfall around Chopta makes the mountains in the lower ranges blow Chaukhamba look higher, even as Swift birds circle over-had in droves, with a backdrop of the snow peaks.

temple · politics

Chandrashila peak seen from Tungnath Temple, with Uttarakhand government's Char Dham Yatra subsidized helicopter service overhead, flying in from Dehradun Helipad in Sahastradahara and other locations.

snow · flowers

Ice plants come in multiple colours and shades: Watch Mesembryanthemum open before your eyes, shut at night to protect flowers from dew Mesembryanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae; like many members of this famil…

flowers · snow

Ice plants or Mesembryanthemum open before your eyes, shut at night to protect flowers from dew Mesembryanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae; like many members of this family, it is characterized by long-lasting f…

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Upen Patel with diamond studs in his ears, and Nupur on their Ice modeling agency: "Three months back we met and started speaking about a modelling agency. Modelling is a stepping stone for Bollywood.

snow · hills

Male Ibex digs snow, looking for dry grass, tubers and other lean season sustenance, in a Himalayan winter. This is how such ungulates survive, as their winter habitat is so harsh and unforgiving.

highway · industry

A JCB and construction trucks work on a narrow section of state highway en route Spiti, clear landslides and rock falls in order to allow traffic to continue along the way to Kaza in Himachal Pradesh.

snow · wildlife

Ibex peers down and wonders: Whats wrong with these Snow Leopards? Why are they upside down belly up? Perhaps they are not in the mood for a hunt, they're tired and sleepy, lazy or just taking a good afternoon nap, and they will be back in…

snow · wildlife

Snow Leopard mum with her cubs walk gingerly and super carefully on a snowy rocky cliff-edge, in the Himalaya.

snow · wildlife

Snow Leopard cubs playing, skiing and slip-sliding down a snow tongue for fun, in cute bratty kiddy mode, in the Himalaya!

wildlife · snow

What a fun sequence! Let them make their own mistakes, she says! A pair of young greenhorn Snow Leopard cubs try to hunt a group of Ibex ewes mother monitors from cave, knowing it won't work! Th mother knows they won't succeed but wants th…