THIS is the terrifying moment a group of British and American tourists were pummelled by an apocalyptic avalanche while on a hiking tour in Kyrgyzstan. Harry Shimmin, who filmed the extraordin…
"I was only covered in a small layer of snow, without a scratch," Harry said."When I re-joined them I could see they were all safe, although one had cut her knee quite badly."The whole group was laughing and crying, happy to be alive. It was only later we realised just how lucky we’d been.The Tian Shan mountains straddle south-eastern Kyrgyzstan and its north east border with China.: "When it was coming towards me, I was thinking about a few things.
"I wasn’t really expecting it to get as close as it did, but when it came over the first hill I knew that there was nowhere to run because I was on the edge of a cliff, and that moving from where I was would be more dangerous.“Embarrassingly one of the main thoughts in my head was something like, ‘I hate when people can’t film avalanches properly, I’m going to show them how it’s done,’ which is when I decided to take the big risk of moving so late.
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