The group of 10 people, including nine from UK, managed to take shelter when avalanche struck
“I left it to the last second to move, and yes I know it would have been safer moving to the shelter right away. I’m very aware that I took a big risk. I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark/harder to breathe, I was bricking it and I thought I might die.”
The Tian Shan mountains mainly straddle south-eastern Kyrgyzstan and its north- east border with China. They formed part of the ancient Silk Road trading route from the Middle East and Asia to the west. Shimmin said he knew the rest of his group was further away, so would be safe, and wrote of feeling “giddy” when he realised he was only covered in light powder “without a scratch”. They had been due to walk the path of the avalanche shortly afterwards.
During a guided tour of the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan, a group of tourists captured this avalanche
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