snow

Himachal Pradesh·snow · hills

Shimla as seen in the winter snowy season. A time lapse reveals the ranges beyond, with clouds moving in time lapse. Shimla town itself is now a crowded hill station that is creaking at the infrastructural seams...

Himachal Pradesh·snow · hills

Mall Road in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, is covered with fresh snow as tourists and local residents walk along the slippery streets following a winter snowfall.

Uttarakhand·snow · school

Snow-fall from Rokeby Manor's terrace, looking out onto the oaks and deodars below! Next, see the Sister's Bazaar tri-junction covered in snow, with the palm tree near Anil Prakash's house having turned totally white...

Uttarakhand·snow · highway

Driving up from Claridge's Nabha Hotel, on the road to Dhanolti via Bataghat, from Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·hills · festival

Sankar Sridhar is an award winning photographer and travel writer who specializes in documenting remote regions of the Himalaya by living with the tribes that call these spaces home.

Uttarakhand·snow

The January of 2020 has seen so much snow descend upon Mussoorie and Landour that the hill stations have frequently seen electricity outages due to transformer shutdowns and water outages due to frozen pipes.

Uttarakhand·snow · highway

Walk past Sujata Chauhan's house and Victor Banerjee's Parsonage and on towards the cemetery, in snowed over winter-time Landour.

Uttarakhand·highway · snow

Walk past the old cemetery on the north face and you reach the Parsonage - Victor Banerjee's home, and Sujata Chauhan's Seaforth Lodge.

Uttarakhand·snow

Walking on snow covered roads in the cantonment area of Landour in Mussoorie. January 2020 saw heavy snowfall in the higher reaches of all of the state of Uttarakhand and Landour was no different.

Uttarakhand·snow

The snow falls as we dine at Emily's at Rokeby Manor in Landour, circa winter of 2006. Not just snow, but it hailed the same afternoon as well. The hail and snow pile up outside as we tuck into the lovely Rokeby menu.

snow · highway

The road going from Mussoorie to Dhanaulti, in Uttarakhand gets its share of snowfall in winters every year. This year was a particularly cold winter and saw heavy snowfall in this Himalayan region.

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

A clear winter view to the Song River in Dehradun, and the crowded new metropolis of the Doon. The buildings surely out-number even parts of Delhi! Such is the new urban sprawl in the once-peaceful hill town of Dehra.

Uttarakhand·snow

See winter clouds roll in over Landour and Mussoorie, even as the day clears up to reveal a thick snowpack after the multiple snowfalls of the winter of 2020. See Sanjay Narang's rental property at Pine Lodge, as part of Rokeby Manor.

Uttarakhand·snow

A walk outside Mt. Pellier and Holly Mount Estate in Landour. Prolific snowfall has turned our hillsides white! Our Land Cruiser is encrusted with snow and ice after a cold night.

Uttarakhand·snow

Heavy snowfall while sitting at Rokeby in Landour Cantonment in Mussoorie. The snow starts covering the leaves of the oak trees and the pathways.

Uttarakhand·snow · bazaar

On a winter's morning, the Land Cruiser is encrusted with snow and ice and becomes a travelling snow pack as one leaves for Delhi! Another day in the life of a Himalayan hill station town and its residents...

Uttarakhand·highway · snow

Days after the last snowfall of winter 2020, snowfall still lingered on the north face of the Jabbarkhet road in Mussoorie, along the Tehri road leading from Batagad to Jabbarkhet Bazaar, past the wildfilmsindia estate, as traffic leads to…

Uttarakhand·snow

Walking from Sister's Bazaar past Cosy Nook of Mr. Sarkar past Deodar Woods of Anil Prakash and then towards ITM near Kilmarnock. The snow changes the colours and feel of wintery Landour.

Uttarakhand·highway · temple

Kellogg Church stands at the tri-junction of the north face cemetery walk, the road to Rokeby Manor past Tony and Tshering Malik and the road heading to Landour's inner core and Sisters' Bazaar, near Bethany of Sunita and Amarjeet Kudle.

Uttarakhand·snow · bazaar

Older 1990's footage of Landour in heavy winter snowfall, with kids throwing snowballs at each other, a Scorpio getting into Sisters' Bazaar and a Bolero descending the skiddy snowed over surface of Jabbarkhet Bazaar, and a distant view of…

Uttarakhand·snow

Landour area, a quiet and quaint Cantonment zone looks pristine in white after a winter snowfall. Covered in snow, the area of Sisters' Bazaar looks quiet and inviting.

Uttarakhand·snow

Going for a walk in Landour, covered in a white sheet of snow in winter.

Uttarakhand·snow

Heavy snowfall seen covering oak trees with a blanket of fresh snow in Landour, Mussoorie during the winter of 2011, as seen while dining at Emily's at Rokeby on the south face of the Landour Chukkar.