Above 10,000
A high altitude environment filmmaking workshop

Are you serious about the environment? Willing to go the extra mile for that special experience that really widens your horizons?

Come with us and discover some of India’s most breathtaking scenarios. Way up in the clouds!

We’ll take you above 10,000 feet, away from the hill stations and tourist spots, beyond the roads and buildings, to where human civilization really interfaces with nature at its most pristine. This is a special 10-day training workshop conducted by a highly experienced, award-winning team of environmental filmmakers and experts who’ve spent several years filming the higher Himalayas.

Over the last two decades now, we’ve been exploring heights from the forested lower foothills to the icy reaches beyond 22,000 feet, recording the amazing diversity of plants and animals, human settlements and mountain terrains, glaciers, snow capped peaks and alpine valleys.

We’ve interacted and lived with remote mountain communities, joined herders as they trekked with their livestock, met scientists investigating phenomena such as receding glaciers and followed rare and elusive creatures like the Himalayan Tahr, the Kiang, the musk deer and the blue sheep.

Now we’d like to share our experience with you. An experience of the mountains and, equally, of the vital issues, techniques and skills involved in filming in such locations.

You’ll be going with us to places between 10,000 and 14,000 feet in the region of Bhrigu Lake, Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh. Here, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Himalayas, you will be guided through a unique hands-on training process that empowers you with not one but two sets of specialized skills:

You will be learning basic techniques of filmmaking from our award-winning film crew that will help you to start up as documentary filmmakers on your own.

And, at the same time, you will gain clear and detailed insights into a range of ecological phenomena such as ecosystem interdependence, biodiversity mapping, eco-tourism, pastoral cultures and nature based livelihoods.

For many of us, exposure to the environment is limited to a few packaged tours. It means going to a national park or hill station or on a river rafting expedition. Nothing wrong with that! If you want to go beyond being a mere urban tourist to becoming a genuine naturalist, if you long to capture and document worlds that can’t fit into the frame of a typical weekend excursion, if you want your voice and vision to make a really meaningful contribution to the cause of the environment and biodiversity…

You’ll not want to miss this opportunity.