
Video captures moment tourists hit by avalanche in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains
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A group of tourists trekking in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains on Friday survived a huge avalanche that swept right over them.
(CNN) — A group of tourists trekking in Kyrgyzstan's Tian Shan mountains on Friday survived a huge avalanche that swept right over them.
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.
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