Photo: nakimori/Depositphotos(Not a photo of the actual event.)
When hiking among the snow peak mountains, you might not think about the dangers above.
But at any moment, the snow could come crashing down in a catastrophic avalanche.
Photo: nakimori/Depositphotos(Not a photo of the actual event.)
In less than a minute, it had passed them and, miraculously, no one was hurt.
Harry Shimmin, one of the hikers, captured a terrifying video of the entire event.
Im very aware that I took a big risk.
Shimmin then goes on to describe the experience and the aftermath.
He fared well and was only covered in light powder and had no scratches.
Another had fallen off a horse and sustained some light bruising.
Overall, the group was laughing and cryingeach person was happy to be alive.
It was only later they realized exactly how lucky they had been.
If we had walked five minutes further on our trek, we would all be dead, Shimmin explains.
If you look carefully in the video, you could see the faint grey trail winding through the grass.
That was the path.
Harry Shimmin caught this terrifying video of an avalanche on the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan.
He was with a group of about 10 people on a guided tour.
Everyone was safe from the avalanche but realized how lucky they were.
