Vaibhav Kaul (born 1991) is a Himalayan geographer, environmental scholar, photographer and painter. He is a researcher at the University of Sheffield, an alumnus of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. Linking atmospheric science and geology to human geography and cultural anthropology, he has investigated socio-environmental change in the high-mountain regions of Lahaul, Garhwal, Kumaon and Sikkim in India. His landscape art, visual geomorphology and visual ethnography works have been exhibited and published in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. He collaborated with the film director Ross Harrison to make Facing the Mountain, a 2016 documentary based on his research on change, risk, faith and resilience in the Himalayas. He appeared in An Awakening (2017) and Playing with Snowballs in the Prison of Time (2018), both poetic Anglo-Himalayan art films that he created with the cinematographer John Seddon as part of a video autoethnography experiment. Kaul and Seddon also made Mountain, Priest, Son, an award-winning 2018 film based on Kaul's geographical research into the metaphysics of environmental, economic and cultural risk amidst rapid change in the Himalayas.