'Just about everyone was crying with happiness that they were alive.' Video captured the moment when a group of tourists survived a huge avalanche that swept right over them in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains.
One of the trekkers, Briton Harry Shimmin, managed to capture on video the moment snow chipped off a mountain top in the distance, before blanketing the slope and engulfing the group.
Having just reached the highest point of the trek, Shimmin broke away from the group to take photos of the landscape when he suddenly heard"the sound of deep ice cracking behind him," according to the caption of the video, which he posted on Instagram. "I left it to the last second to move, and yes I know it would have been safer moving to the shelter straight away," he wrote in the post.
"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 breath, I was bricking it and thought I might die." "When we joined back up , just about everyone was crying with happiness that they were alive," Shimmin, an officer in the British Army, told CNN on Monday.l
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