A dramatic video, taken from a Mount Everest base camp the moment before, during and after a 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal Saturday, depicts the frightening speed in which disaster can strike.
The video was captured and posted Sunday on YouTube by German climber Jost Kobusch.
WARNING: Strong language.
“The ground is shaking,” Kobusch can be heard saying at the beginning of the clip.
The avalanche approached seconds later, sending Kobusch and a companion scurrying amid a flurry of profanities for the only shelter they could find — a flimsy tent.
When the two men emerge alive along with others at the base camp, one can be heard saying that “there may be more.”
“Should we go back under the tent?” another asks.
“Stay together,” Kobusch advises.
These were some of the lucky ones — the survivors. The earthquake killed thousands of others, including at least three Americans: Google executive Dan Fredinburg, 33, Tom Taplin, a documentary filmmaker from Santa Monica and Marisa Eve Girawong, a N.J. native who served as a medic, according to the New York Daily News.
Two other Americans, both Brooklyn backpackers, are still missing.
Be sure to also check out:
Riots In Baltimore explode into dangerous chaos; see photos, videos
ESPN host: Tom Brady must be racist for snubbing Obama; black players who skipped invite OK?
DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW
Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!
- ‘Act like a grownup’: Drunk driver sobs when she loses plea deal by coming 4 hours late to court - July 23, 2017
- ‘I would’ve fired her the day I met her’: Glenn Beck reveals more about Tomi Lahren mess - July 23, 2017
- Canadian thug beats 74-year-old cyclist bloody with a club in road rage fit– and they say US is more violent? - July 23, 2017
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.