Icicles at Sister's Bazaar!

We're so used to the cool and pleasant weather of Landour that icicles and a foot of snow are as far from the imagination as one could have imagined! Icicles and ice melt off on Anil Prakash's roof at Sisters' Bazaar!

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This year's winter snowfall has set a record of sorts! We normally don't experience more than a few inches of snow at a time in the Landour-Mussoorie region. This year, we have had a sustained two weeks of repeated snowfall which has turned to ice on the steep and narrow road leading up from Ruskin Bond's house and Momo's Doma's Restaurant up to Char Dukani and Rokeby Manor. Some of the best SUV's have not been able to handle the icy conditions and skiddiness and have backed off to Mussoorie.

Regardless, Landour was left looking lovely and aloof! So enjoy our imagery from the 6th to the 9th of January 2012...

Landour in the snow and cold. Freezing weather in Landour brings the temperature down to about -2 degrees Celcius. On the 6th of January 2012, the maximum temperature for the day was 2 degrees Celcius! The maximum standing snow was around 1 foot. It has not snowed like this in Landour for about 8 or 9 years and because of so much snow there were no cars going up to Landour and cars were skidding, everything was white and people were giving up on their visits up the hill. If all the cars would not have skidded and the roads turned icy, Landour would not have been so empty and quiet like it was but would instead have been crowded with 'snow tourism' from the plains!

This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery,
mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and [email protected].

Snowfall and rain in Landour snow falling snowfall