Ten people, including nine Brits, have survived after being swallowed up by an enormous ice avalanche in the Tian Shan mountains.
One of the survivors, Harry Shimmin, was filming the avalanche as the glacier collapsed and tumbled over him in Kyrgyzstan.
Harry, 27, was on a trekking tour but had broken away from the group to take photographs when he suddenly heard "the sound of deep ice cracking behind me”, he wrote in a post on Instagram alongside the video.
The incident happened at 14:45 local time on Friday 8th July and the video shows snow tumbling down a mountain in the distance, before rapidly sweeping towards Harry, forcing him to take cover as the snow rolled over him.
Everyone in the group survived the avalanche and just one woman was injured with a gash to her knee. She rode on a horse to the nearest hospital.
Eight Brits and an American were in the central Asian country, close to the north-east border with China when a large chunk of snow and ice broke off the top of a mountain range and hurtled towards them.
Harry said he had been at the spot taking photographs for a few minutes already, so he knew there was space for shelter right next to him.
He wrote: “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 thought I might die."
Harry said he was on a cliff edge so could not move. He thought that if they walked just five minutes further on our trek, they would all be dead.
The film cuts out as Harry braces for the onslaught of snow, ducking behind a rock as chunks of snow fly just above his head.
“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,” he said.
Harry knew the rest of the group would be safe as they were further away and said he felt “giddy” when he realised he was only covered in light powder “without a scratch”.
Writing about the experience after it happened, the adventurer said it was "harrowing to walk through the aftermath of where we would have been if we were five minutes quicker."
He confirmed that the group are all safe, however, the American woman who cut her knee spent some time in hospital.
After the avalanche, she spent three hours on a horse to the local medical centre and has since flown back to the US.
