British tourist captures avalanche sweeping over group in Kyrgyzstan (Video) In Kyrgyzstan, the avalanche miraculously. (Video)
Posted on 07/12/2022 2:26:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Incredible video shows an avalanche of rocks and snow cascading down a mountain in Kyrgyzstan directly toward the hiker filming the spectacle.
A group of 10 tourists - nine Brits and one American - who were caught in the avalanche in the Tian Shan mountains managed to avoid serious injury, but ended up with a great story and astonishing footage. Advertisement
"It was only later we realised just how lucky we'd been," wrote Harry Shimmin. "If we had walked 5 minutes further on our trek, we would all be dead."
Shimmin's video of the avalanche has racked up 900,000 views on Instagram.
He says he had separated from the tour group to take pictures on the top of a hill.
He heard the sound of ice cracking and started filming as the snow and debris began sliding down the mountains directly toward him.
He notes that because he was on the edge of a cliff he had nowhere to run, but he did find a sheltered spot. The video shows the snow flowing over him as he ducks down behind some rocks.
"Yes I left it to the last second to move, and yes I know it would have been safer moving to the shelter straight away," 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 breath, I was bricking it and thought I might die."
Shimmin, a 27-year-old Brit, is an experienced adventurer. He holds the Guinness world record for most backward somersaults in a sky dive.
British tourist captures avalanche sweeping over group in Kyrgyzstan (Video) In Kyrgyzstan, the avalanche miraculously. (Video)
Yikes!
Damn youtube has to put pop-up crap blocking the last 20 seconds of all videos.
“ If we had walked 5 minutes further on our trek, we would all be dead.”
And we would all be talking about how stupid you were and died doing what you loved to do - being buried alive 🤪
That is INCREDIBLE footage, thanks for sharing!!!
YW
Already there. This is youtube’s attempt to get you to chose the next video you see in the final 15 seconds of the playing one.
I don’t see anyway to stop or block it. Anytime you pause a youtube video, suggestions frames overlap the video content too.
“He holds the Guinness world record for most backward somersaults in a sky dive”
The avalanche would have easily caused him to have a new record of backward somersaults....
May I suggest using 4kvideodownloader. $15 & you own it. Downloads 95% of all youtube videos & saves them to the local drive of your choice, & you wind up with nothing but the full video ! - no commercials, popups or other unwanted stuff.
Brave has built-in ad-blocking.
Some banking websites use the same crap code, so it has to be disabled for those sites (case by case).
Anyway, close call!
Briton survives huge avalanche - and he filmed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fzi6JGSXOU
Cutting it close..
For archiving stuff I use ...
youtube-dl —recode-video mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37F1gmOfhII
Doesn’t cost a dime.
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