A large part of the Indian Himalaya lies above 10,000 feet. The region is home to some of the most spectacular mountain scenery anywhere in the world, with a series of mountain ranges that have served to discourage the casual visitor from visiting this frontier that separates India from Central Asia. Not surprisingly, the region has remained largely unknown outside a small community of Himalayan enthusiasts. But because the region lies at the heart of the cultural and biological cross-roads of Central Asia, it is home to a great diversity of cultural traditions, and biological representation. A trade network that formerly linked Beijing with Hoshiarpur and Kabul with Lhasa, may no longer be active, yet its influences are omnipresent in the sites of Hindu worship, in the extensive network of Buddhist monasteries, and in the variations in lifestyles that range from nomadic pastoralism to terraced cultivation. Simultaneously, its flora and fauna draw upon assemblages ranging from Central Asia to peninsular India, most critically evidenced by the spectacular community of wild ungulates of the Great Himalaya. We hope to make a ten-part film series that will explore this culture and wilderness at high altitude.