This film is from my first trip to the Himalayas — a winter expedition to Spiti in 2025. I went there looking for the snow leopard. But even in the coldest months, this high-altitude desert has far more life than I imagined. This winter wildlife documentary features the highlights of our trip - snow leopard, red fox, Himalayan ibex, blue sheep and Himalayan wolves. We started our days around sunrise, scanning cliffs for movement. One morning, we heard of a horse carcass near Langza and watched a red fox stash pieces of meat in the snow — behaviour that helps it survive long winters. We then saw feral dogs appear, and got a sense of the conflict between wildlife and dogs. We photographed large herds of Himalayan ibex moving across steep rocky slopes. We saw large male herds — different horn classes together — waiting for their chance to climb up. We photographed blue sheep grazing on high slopes through the day, sometimes scraping at the snow with their hooves to reach buried vegetation. And on one of the coldest afternoons of the trip, we saw two Himalayan wolves — tiny silhouettes in the wind, but enough to understand how elusive they are. We did see a snow leopard too — hidden on a cliff, perfectly camouflaged. A reminder that in these mountains, patience matters.