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The Dzukou Valley also called the valley of flowers is located along the border of the Indian states of Nagaland and Manipur, stretching from the Southern end of Kohima district of Nagaland.

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·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·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·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·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·hills · festival

Captain Mohan Kohli speaks at Mussoorie Writers' Festival, he says, "I felt very bad that a big Avalanche at Nanda Kot and then getting down nearly saving almost ground nearly and then this accident I sent a message to Delhi through my inte…

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

The Seattle native (born and raised) Steve Swenson, 55, is the quintessential Northwest hardman.

snow · hills

An avalanche also called a snowslide or snowslip, is a sudden, drastic flow of snow down a slope, occurring when either natural triggers, such as loading from new snow or rain, or artificial triggers, such as snowmobilers, explosives or bac…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Inner sanctuary of Nanda Devi: from Lata Kharak to Dibrughetta and down to the Rishi Ganga gorge.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Nanda Devi is the second highest mountain in India and the highest entirely within the country (Kangchenjunga being on the border of India and Nepal); owing to this geography it was the highest known mountain in the world until computations…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Birch forests, slopes covered in Anemones and Rhubarb, Lotus corniculatus underfoot, sub-alpine grasslands and cliffy mountains, cloudy cliff-faces and deep ravined valleys - a range of imagery from within the outer precincts of the Nanda D…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Cairn or thoua (a pile of stones to mark a point on the route) on the way from Lata Kharak pass to Dibrughetta alp, en route Nanda Devi, within the inner sanctuary.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Nanda Devi is the second highest mountain in India and the highest entirely within the country (Kangchenjunga being on the border of India and Nepal); owing to this geography it was the highest known mountain in the world until computations…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Primula reptans grows in solitary tufts among the rocks while Anemone flowers pop out of the Juniper thickets. A visiting expedition camps on a rocky re-entrant just before crossing the Dharanshi pass to descend to the Dibrughetta alps.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · snow

One can recognize this scat as that of being from a Snow Leopard from the location, altitude, size of turd and the content of hair and fur within it...

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

With clouds billowing, Nanda Devi opens up and reveals herself, after a snow-storm around the summit, just prior to sunset.

Uttarakhand·forest · snow

The Nanda Devi National Park is a national park situated around the peak of Nanda Devi, 7,817 m (25,646 ft) in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India that was established in 1982.

Uttarakhand·hills · snow

The treacherous rock faces to the south of Nanda Devi West peak, on a clear summer day as seen from the meadows of Sarsarpatal in the inner sanctuary.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Nanda Devi is the second highest mountain in India and the highest entirely within the country (Kangchenjunga being on the border of India and Nepal); owing to this geography it was the highest known mountain in the world until computations…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Peaks of the north sanctuary, including Bamchu, Devdamla and Mangraon, as seen from Sarsarpatal in the inner sanctuary. Then see a glorious view of Nanda Devi itself, with jet-stream plumes billowing from the summit.

hills · snow

Himalaya: The Abode of snow This is the highest mountain system on earth, the name Himalaya means the House of Snow and it consists of several parallel mountain ranges.

hills · snow

Check out virgin runs for skiing and snow-boarding in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh in India...