Vaibhav Kaul FRAS FRGS (born 1991) is a Himalayan geographer, environmental scholar, photographer and painter.

[1][5][6][7][8] He has investigated socio-environmental change and disaster risk in the glaciated high-mountain regions of Lahaul, Garhwal, Kumaon and Sikkim in India.

[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Kaul 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.

[21] 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.

[22][23][24] 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 amid rapid change in the Himalayas.