Indian authorities have released a video of a team of eight moutaineers who died in a massive avalanche in the Himalayas.
The footage, which shows the group roped together as they ascend a peak with torches, shows the final moment that the group were captured on camera before their deaths.
The group - made up of four Brits, two Americans, an Australian and an India - went missing at the end of May during an expedition on Nanda Devi East, which is India’s second-highest mountain.
Contact with the team was lost on May 26 following an avalanche.
The GoPro camera with the footage was found buried in snow near the area where the bodies were eventually recovered in June.
Seven of the bodies were recovered in June.
The 1 minute 55 second clip was released by the Indo-Tibetan Border Force on Monday.
In a post on Twitter, the ITBF announced their search team found the “memory video device” at 19,000 ft while they were searching the area where the bodies were spotted.
According to ITBP spokesman Vivek Kumar Pandey, the group's weight could have caused a snow ledge they were on to give away, "triggering an avalanche".
The clip is now being used to help "analyse what went wrong with their mission".
"The GoPro was proved to be like the black box of an aircraft giving an insight into the last few moments of the climbers," ITBP deputy inspector general A.P.S. Nambadia told reporters.
"It was mesmerising for us to see the footage".
Veteran British mountaineer Martin Moran led a team of four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian on the expedition.
He led the group of climbers including John McLaren, Rupert Whewell and University of York lecturer Richard Payne from the UK.
US nationals Anthony Sudekum and Ronald Beimel were also among the team with Australian Ruth McCance and Indian guide Chetan Pandey.
In an earlier statement, his family said: “We are deeply saddened by the tragic events unfolding in the Nanda Devi region of the Indian Himalayas.
“As a family, we share the same emotions that all next of kin are experiencing in not knowing the whereabouts or wellbeing of those closest to us.”
