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The earthquake that uprooted life in Nepal, also hit the mountaineers at the Everest base camp.
The video was recorded by one of the mountaineers, Chimu, at the base camp. He had come out of his tent after the earthquake shook the ground to have a look of surroundings.
That is when he filmed the 46 second long video of the avalanche coming right at them.
While shooting video, the mountaineer did not realise the immediate danger he was in.
“I was in shock and disbelief during this whole filming ordeal, not being aware that roughly 20 fellow porters, Sherpas and climbers had just died and about 50 had been critically injured in my immediate camp,” climber Chimu wrote in an annotation to the video.
