This is the remarkable minute British travelers on a travelling trip endured a substantial avalanche in Kyrgyzstan.
Footage reveals a gush of snow boiling down the Tian Shan mountains, requiring the group to hide.
Incredibly, many people there were totally unharmed– with a single person cutting her knee and riding to the nearby medical facility and another falling off a horse, sustaining some bruising.
Harry Shimm, who submitted the video to Instagram, has actually stated ‘if we had walked five minutes further on our trek, we would all be dead’.
He stated that he had actually broken away from his trip group of 9 Brits and one American to take images after they reached the acme in the trek.
But he quickly heard ‘ice cracking behind’ and kept recording till the last minute prior to he evaded under close-by shelter.
Acknowledging that he ‘took a big risk’, he described: ‘I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark / harder to breath, I was bricking it and thought I might die.’
Harry continued: ‘Behind the rock it was like being inside a blizzard. Once it was over the adrenaline rush hit me hard. I was only covered in a small layer of snow, without a scratch. I felt giddy.’
When he discovered his trip group, they were ‘laughing and crying, happy to be alive’ following the scary experience.
‘It was only later we realised just how lucky we’ d been’, he included.
The Tianshan mountains are generally divided in between south-eastern Kyrgyzstan and its north-east border withChina
They formed part of the Silk Road, an ancient trade path that connected the West with the Middle East and Asia.
The greatest peak in the Tian Shan is Jengish Chokusu, at 7,439 metres (24,406 feet) high.
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